The Country Music Association Awards are the most prestigious of all the awards a country music artist can aquire. If an album or artist or song won a CMA award, you can be sure the music is some of the best the industry has to offer. The albums below are from award winning artists and groups from the 2006 CMA Awards.
Kenny Chesney reclaimed the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award for 2006. The award was well-deserved, as the man is a road dog supreme, and played to over 1,000,000 fans this year alone.
With their three wins this year, they've tied Vince Gill for the most CMA Wins with 18. Plus, Ronnie Dunn, co-writer of
"Believe," which was both the CMA Single, CMA Music Video, and CMA Song of the Year receives the award for CMA Song of the Year, along with co-writer Craig Wiseman.
Keith Urban may have been absent, but his thank you note read by Ronnie Dunn touched the hearts of everyone that heard it. We wish Keith a speedy recovery.
Carrie was pretty much a shoe-in for the CMA Horizon Award, but capturing the Female Vocalist in the same year is quite a feat. It was last accomplished by Alison Krauss in 1995.
Rascal Flatts have taken this award now for four years running. A well-deserved win. The group, like Kenny Chesney also played to over 1,000,000 fans on the road, and released
Me and My Gang this year, which has produced three Top 10 hits.
The album nominees were a tough category to predict. Each was well-deserving of the win. Brad's
Time Well Wasted has gone platinum and spawned three Top 3 singles, including
"When I Get Where I'm Going," which was the song he recorded with Dolly Parton, and which won the Musical Event award.
