Thanks heaps to Scott Lamond from ABC Local Radio for the article and interview, check it out here:
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/content/2010/s2817086.htm

Scott will be hosting Saturday Night Country this weekend and will be playing the interview, so thanks again Scott, really appreciate it.

Hi everyone here are the finalists in each category for the Golden Guitar awards on sat 23rd......
Choose who you think should be the winner of each category and submit your answers as a comment below.....
Entries close at 12pm (QLD) sat 23rd and the winner will be announced during my livestream on wed 27th....
Good luck.

Album of the Year:
Defying Gravity – Keith Urban, produced by Dann Huff (USA) & Keith Urban
Hell Of A Ride – Adam Brand, produced by Richard Landis (USA)
I Love This Place – Troy Cassar-Daley, produced by Rod McCormack, Troy Cassar-Daley & Jeff McCormack
Life At A Million Miles – Jetty Road, produced by Julian Sammut & Mark Moffat
Tailwind – Harmony James, produced by Herm Kovac

Male Artist of the Year:
James Blundell – Good Wood
Adam Brand – Hell Of A Ride
Troy Cassar-Daley - I Love This Place
Paul Costa – Survivor 1932
Keith Urban – Kiss A Girl

Female Artist of the Year:
Harmony James – Precious Little
Tania Kernaghan – Second Time Around
Amber Lawrence – When It All Comes Down
Lianna Rose – Angels
Felicity Urquhart – Roller Coaster

Group or Duo of the Year:
Carter & Carter – Surviving Black Saturday
Davidson Brothers – A Showman’s Life
Jetty Road – Million Miles
The Bobkatz – The Long Haul
The Bushwackers – The Good Old Days

Vocal Collaboration of the Year:
Tangerine Sky – Australian Country Music Unites
Ain’t Gonna Change For You – Troy Cassar-Daley & The McClymonts
King Of The Road – Adam Harvey & John Williamson
Courageous – Melinda Schneider & Australian Girls Choir
You’ve Got A Friend – Songbirds (Gina Jeffreys, Beccy Cole & Sara Storer)

Bush Ballad of the Year:
Droving Cattle With The Boys – written by T Kernaghan/F Kernaghan, recorded by Tania Kernaghan
Old Black Quart – written by Coster/Coster/Quinn/Pritchard/Corbett, recorded by Tracy Coster
The Dust Of Kalkadoon – written by Ian Quinn, recorded by Dean Perrett
The First Lady Of Country – written by Graham Rodger/Deirdre Willmington, recorded by Graham Rodger
The Road To Thargomindah – written by Colin Buchanan, recorded by the Bushwackers

Heritage Song of the Year:
Chasin’ Rodeo – written and recorded by Troy Cassar-Daley
Surviving Black Saturday – written by David Carter/Merelyn Carter, recorded by Carter and Carter
Survivor 1932 – written by Costa/Costa/McCormack, recorded by Paul Costa
Tangerine Sky – written by Tamara Stewart, recorded by Australian Country Music Unites
When I Was A Boy – written and recorded by Greg Storer and Sara Storer

Fender Instrumental of the Year:
Flying Pig – The Bushwackers
Fox On The Freeway – Davidson Brothers
It’s Not Easy – Joe Robinson
Jolly Swagman – Tommy Emmanuel
Waiting At The Station – Lawrie Minson

Maton New Talent of the Year:
Victoria Baillie – Make Me
Liam Brew – Girls With Girlfriends
Jayne Denham – Shake This Town
Ronni Rae Rivers – Running On Fumes
Lianna Rose – Jack

APRA Song of the Year:
Big Big Love – written and recorded by Troy Cassar-Daley
Girl In The Mall – written by Felicity Urquhart/Mark Seymour, recorded by Felicity Urquhart
Survivor 1932 – written by Costa/Costa/McCormack, recorded by Paul Costa
When It All Comes Down – written and recorded by Amber Lawrence
Why’s It Feel So Long – written and recorded by Keith Urban

Video Clip of the Year:
Big Big Love – Troy Cassar-Daley, directed by Ross Wood
Don’t Do Lonely Well – Amber Lawrence, directed by Glenn Wilson
I Want My Tractor Back – Lianna Rose, directed by Ross Wood
Kick It Up – The McClymonts, directed by Myles Conti
When I Was A Boy – Greg Storer & Sara Storer, directed by Duncan Toombs

Single of the Year:
Big Big Love – Troy Cassar-Daley
Kiss A Girl – Keith Urban
Million Miles – Jetty Road
Ready For Love – Adam Brand
Shotgun – The McClymonts

Ok, so we have created a Rob Black Christmas eCard for you to send around to everyone in case you missed the post this year. There is still time for email.

http://www.robblackmusic.com/node/524

I hope everyone enjoys their Christmas, and I hope you can enjoy with me 2010, it's going to be a big year.

-Rob

Hi all,

Same place as the last ones tonight for the last show before christmas!!!!!!!

http://www.robblackmusic.com/live/index.html

See you in there!
Rob

Hey everyone,,, we are having some audio problems on the site at the moment, so you maybe getting an error when you try to play some of the blogs. Hang in there we're working on getting this sorted.

Rob

Well what a big show last night! For those who missed it, you missed me forgetting more words to my own songs. ;) but you also missed out on the best competition in the history of time, with the best prize of all time. Christie will be coming to the Keith urban concert with me on Friday night!! Yes managed to get last minute tickets, will need binoculers but we will have a great time anyway!!! I will tweet pic on Friday night from the concert!!!! Well done to Christie and thanks to everyone who bought things to be in the draw, and to everyone who was watching!!!

Next weeks show is going to be a Christmas spectacular, hope you can tune in for some country Christmas cheer!!!

Hey everyone ,,, will be streaming live from here, see you soon: http://www.robblackmusic.com/live/index.html Same place as last week guys.