Jahr Gewinner Nationalität Werk Nominierte Bild des/der Gewinner(s) 1965 Roger Miller Vereinigte Staaten Dang Me Bobby Bare – Four Strong Winds Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line George Hamilton IV – Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston Sonny James – You’re the Only World I Know Hank Locklin – Hank Locklin Sings Hank Williams Buck Owens – My Heart Skips a Beat 1966 Roger Miller Vereinigte Staaten King of the Road Eddy Arnold – Make the World Go Away Bobby Bare – Talk Me Some Sense Carl Belew – Crystal Chandelier Jim Reeves – Is It Really Over? 1967 David Houston Vereinigte Staaten Almost Persuaded Ben Colder – Almost Persuaded No. 2 Jack Greene – There Goes My Everything Charley Pride – Just Between You and Me Jim Reeves – Distant Drums 1968 Glen Campbell Vereinigte Staaten Gentle on My Mind Jim Ed Brown – Pop a Top Jack Greene – All the Time Charley Pride – Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger Porter Wagoner – The Cold Hard Facts of Life 1969 Johnny Cash Vereinigte Staaten Folsom Prison Blues Glen Campbell – I Wanna Live Henson Cargill – Skip a Rope Roger Miller – Little Green Apples Porter Wagoner – The Carroll County Accident 1970 Johnny Cash Vereinigte Staaten A Boy Named Sue Clay Hart – Spring Bobby Lewis – From Heaven to Heartache Charley Pride – All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) Jerry Reed – Are You from Dixie (’Cause I’m from Dixie Too) 1971 Ray Price Vereinigte Staaten For the Good Times Johnny Cash – Sunday Morning Coming Down Merle Haggard – Okie from Muskogee Charley Pride – Charley Pride’s 10th Album Jerry Reed – Amos Moses 1972 Jerry Reed Vereinigte Staaten When You’re Hot, You’re Hot Freddie Hart – Easy Loving Johnny Paycheck – She’s All I Got Ray Price – I Won’t Mention It Again Charley Pride – Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’ 1973 Charley Pride Vereinigte Staaten Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs Merle Haggard – It’s Not Love (But It’s Not Bad) Waylon Jennings – Good Hearted Woman Jerry Lee Lewis – Chantilly Lace Charlie Rich – I Take It on Home 1974 Charlie Rich Vereinigte Staaten Behind Closed Doors Tom T. Hall – (Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine Kris Kristofferson – Why Me Charley Pride – Amazing Love Johnny Russell – Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer 1975 Ronnie Milsap Vereinigte Staaten Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends Glen Campbell – Bonaparte’s Retreat Roy Clark – The Entertainer Waylon Jennings – I’m a Ramblin’ Man Charley Pride – Country Feelin’ 1976 Willie Nelson Vereinigte Staaten Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Glen Campbell – Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.) John Denver – Thank God I’m a Country Boy Freddy Fender – Before the Next Teardrop Falls Waylon Jennings – Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way Ray Stevens – Misty 1977 Ronnie Milsap Vereinigte Staaten (I’m A) Stand by My Woman Man Mac Davis – Forever Lovers Larry Gatlin – Broken Lady Waylon Jennings – Are You Ready for the Country Willie Nelson – I’d Have to Be Crazy 1978 Kenny Rogers Vereinigte Staaten Lucille Larry Gatlin – I Don’t Wanna Cry Waylon Jennings – Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) Ronnie Milsap – It Was Almost Like a Song Jerry Jeff Walker – Mr. Bojangles 1979 Willie Nelson Vereinigte Staaten Georgia on My Mind Waylon Jennings – I’ve Always Been Crazy Ronnie Milsap – Let’s Take the Long Way Around the World Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job and Shove It Elvis Presley – Softly, as I Leave You Kenny Rogers – Love or Something Like It 1980 Kenny Rogers Vereinigte Staaten The Gambler Willie Nelson – Whiskey River Charley Pride – Burgers and Fries/When I Stop Leavin' (I'll Be Gone) Eddie Rabbitt – Every Which Way but Loose Hank Williams Jr. – Family Tradition 1981 George Jones Vereinigte Staaten He Stopped Loving Her Today George Burns – I Wish I Was Eighteen Again Johnny Lee – Lookin’ for Love Willie Nelson – On the Road Again Eddie Rabbitt – Drivin’ My Life Away 1982 Ronnie Milsap Vereinigte Staaten (There’s) No Gettin' Over Me John Anderson – I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) Willie Nelson – Somewhere over the Rainbow Eddie Rabbitt – Step by Step George Jones – Still Doin’ Time 1983 Willie Nelson Vereinigte Staaten Always on My Mind Ronnie Milsap – He Got You Jerry Reed – She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft) Kenny Rogers – Love Will Turn You Around Ricky Skaggs – Heartbroke 1984 Lee Greenwood Vereinigte Staaten I.O.U. Ray Charles – Born to Love Me Earl Thomas Conley – Holding Her and Loving You Vern Gosdin – If You’re Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right) Ronnie Milsap – Stranger in My House Kenny Rogers – All My Life 1985 Merle Haggard Vereinigte Staaten That’s the Way Love Goes Lee Greenwood – God Bless the USA Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans Ricky Skaggs – Country Boy Hank Williams Jr. – All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight 1986 Ronnie Milsap Vereinigte Staaten Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) Lee Greenwood – I Don’t Mind the Thorns (If You’re the Rose) Mel McDaniel – Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On Willie Nelson – Forgiving You Was Easy Ricky Skaggs – You Make Me Feel Like a Man 1987 Ronnie Milsap Vereinigte Staaten Lost in the Fifties Tonight Steve Earle – Guitar Town Randy Travis – Diggin’ Up Bones Hank Williams Jr. – Ain’t Misbehavin’ Dwight Yoakam – Guitars, Cadillacs’ 1988 Randy Travis Vereinigte Staaten Always & Forever Steve Earle – Exit 0 George Strait – All My Ex’s Live in Texas Hank Williams Jr. – Born to Boogie Dwight Yoakam – Hillbilly Deluxe 1989 Randy Travis Vereinigte Staaten Old 8x10 Rodney Crowell – Diamonds & Dirt Lyle Lovett – Pontiac Dan Seals – Addicted Dwight Yoakam – Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room 1990 Lyle Lovett Vereinigte Staaten Lyle Lovett and His Large Band Clint Black – Killin’ Time Rodney Crowell – After All This Time Randy Travis – It’s Just a Matter of Time Keith Whitley – I’m No Stranger to the Rain 1991 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten When I Call Your Name Garth Brooks – Friends In Low Places Doug Stone – I’d Be Better Off (In a Pine Box) Randy Travis – Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart Dwight Yoakam – Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose 1992 Garth Brooks Vereinigte Staaten Ropin’ the Wind Billy Dean – Somewhere in My Broken Heart Vince Gill – Pocket Full Of Gold Alan Jackson – Don’t Rock the Jukebox Travis Tritt – Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) 1993 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten I Still Believe in You Garth Brooks – The Chase Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy Breaky Heart Randy Travis – Better Class of Losers Travis Tritt – Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man 1994 Dwight Yoakam Vereinigte Staaten Ain’t That Lonely Yet Garth Brooks – Ain’t Goin’ Down (’Til the Sun Comes Up) Alan Jackson – Chattahoochee George Jones – I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair Aaron Neville – The Grand Tour 1995 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten When Love Finds You David Ball – Thinkin’ Problem John Berry – Your Love Amazes Me John Michael Montgomery – I Swear Dwight Yoakam – Pocket of a Clown 1996 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten Go Rest High on That Mountain John Berry – Standing on the Edge of Goodbye Alan Jackson – Gone Country John Michael Montgomery – I Can Love You Like That Dwight Yoakam – A Thousand Miles from Nowhere 1997 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten Worlds Apart Clint Black – Like the Rain Junior Brown – My Wife Thinks You’re Dead Lyle Lovett – Private Conversation Dwight Yoakam – Nothing 1998 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten Pretty Little Adriana Clint Black – Something That We Do Johnny Cash – Rusty Cage Willie Nelson – Peach Pickin’ Time Down In Georgia George Strait – Carrying Your Love with Me 1999 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten If You Ever Have Forever in Mind Clint Black – Nothin’ but the Taillights Garth Brooks – To Make You Feel My Love Steve Wariner – Holes in the Floor of Heaven 2000 George Jones Vereinigte Staaten Choices Vince Gill – Don’t Come Cryin' to Me Lyle Lovett – That’s Right (You’re Not from Texas) Tim McGraw – Please Remember Me Dwight Yoakam – Crazy Little Thing Called Love 2001 Johnny Cash Vereinigte Staaten Solitary Man Vince Gill – Feels Like Love Billy Gilman – One Voice Tim McGraw – My Best Friend Dwight Yoakam – A Thousand Miles from Nowhere 2002 Ralph Stanley Vereinigte Staaten O Death Ryan Adams – Lovesick Blues Johnny Cash – I Dreamed About Mama Last Night Lyle Lovett – San Antonio Girl Tim McGraw – Grown Men Don’t Cry Willie Nelson – Marie 2003 Johnny Cash Vereinigte Staaten Give My Love to Rose Pat Green – Three Days Alan Jackson – Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) Joe Nichols – The Impossible Brad Paisley – I’m Gonna Miss Her 2004 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten Next Big Thing Ray Benson – Annabelle Lyle Lovett – My Baby Don’t Tolerate Tim McGraw – She’s My Kind of Rain Joe Nichols – Brokenheartsville Randy Travis – Three Wooden Crosses 2005 Tim McGraw Vereinigte Staaten Live Like You Were Dying Johnny Cash – Engine One-Forty-Three Lyle Lovett – In My Own Mind Willie Nelson – You Are My Flower Keith Urban – You’ll Think of Me 2006 Keith Urban Australien You’ll Think of Me George Jones – Funny How Time Slips Away Toby Keith – As Good as I Once Was Delbert McClinton – Midnight Communion Willie Nelson – Good Ol’ Boys Brad Paisley – Alcohol 2007 Vince Gill Vereinigte Staaten The Reason Why Dierks Bentley – Every Mile a Memory George Strait – The Seashores of Old Mexico Josh Turner – Would You Go with Me Keith Urban – Once in a Lifetime 2008 Keith Urban Australien Stupid Boy Dierks Bentley – Long Trip Alone Alan Jackson – A Woman’s Love Tim McGraw – If You’re Reading This George Strait – Give It Away 2009 Brad Paisley Vereinigte Staaten Letter to Me Trace Adkins – You’re Gonna Miss This Jamey Johnson – In Color James Otto – Just Got Started Lovin’ You George Strait – Troubadour 2010 Keith Urban Australien Sweet Thing Trace Adkins – All I Ask for Anymore Billy Currington – People Are Crazy Jamey Johnson – High Cost of Living George Strait – Living for the Night 2011 Keith Urban Australien ’Til Summer Comes Around Jamey Johnson – Macon Toby Keith – Cryin’ for Me (Wayman’s Song) David Nail – Turning Home Chris Young – Gettin’ You Home (The Black Dress Song)