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Country Music Association award winners

November 13, 2008 at 10:53:00 AM

A list of winners from the 2008 Country Music Association awards ceremony.

(Reuters) - The Country Music Association awarded its "entertainer of the year" prize Wednesday to Kenny Chesney. Other winners included:

- Female Vocalist: Carrie Underwood.

- Male Vocalist: Brad Paisley.

- New Artist: Lady Antebellum.

- Vocal Group: Rascal Flatts, for the sixth year in a row.

- Vocal Duo: Sugarland.

- Single of the Year (to artist and producer): "I Saw God Today" by George Strait, produced by Tony Brown and Strait.

- Album of the Year (to artist and producer): "Troubadour" by George Strait, produced by Tony Brown and George Strait.

- Song of the Year (to Songwriter): "Stay" by Jennifer Nettles.

- Musical Event of the Year: "Gone, Gone, Gone" by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss.

- Music Video of the Year: "Waitin' on a Woman" Brad Paisley, with actor Andy Griffith.

- Musician of the Year: Guitarist Mac McAnally. (Writing by Andrew Stern)

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