2009 Nashville Music Award Winners

ARTIST OF THE YEAR - Taylor Swift
BEST NEW ARTIST - Lady Antebellum

SONG OF THE YEAR - "The Time of My Life” Writer: Regie Hamm (performed by David Cook)

NEXT BIG NASHVILLE AWARD (Emerging Artist) - Brooke Waggoner

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR - Liz Rose

SONGWRITER-ARTIST OF THE YEAR - Taylor Swift

POSTER / ALBUM ARTWORK / PACKAGING OF THE YEAR - Roy Orbison, The Soul Of Rock And Roll Boxed Set
By Latocki Team Creative

INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR - Jack White

MUSIC VIDEO / FILM OF THE YEAR - Rascal Flatts, "Here Comes Goodbye" - Directed by Shaun Silva

MADE IN MUSIC CITY AWARD - Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 
Producer: T Bone Burnett 
Studio: Sound Emporium

BLUEGRASS ALBUM OF THE YEAR - The Steeldrivers, The Steeldrivers 
Rounder Records

COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Taylor Swift, Fearless (Big Machine Records)

AMERICANA ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Sarah Siskind, Say It Louder 
(Request/Thirty Tigers Records)

URBAN RECORDING OF THE YEAR - April Rucker, Here I Stand 
(One Staj Music Group

GOSPEL / CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Jars of Clay, The Long Fall Back To Earth
(Gray Matters/Essential Records)

JAZZ / BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Take 6, The Standard 
(Heads Up Records/Telarc)

POP / ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Kings of Leon, Only by the Night (RCA)

INNOVATOR - Landmark Digital Services, LLC for BlueArrow Audio Recognition

HERITAGE AWARD - The Fisk Jubilee Singers