Ashley McBryde, Luke Combs And Jimmie Allen Among MusicRow Awards Honorees

MusicRow Award

ASHLEY MCBRYDE was the top winner at last night’s (6/26) “31st ANNUAL MUSICROW AWARDS,” as the only artist taking home two trophies. She was named Breakthrough Artist Of The Year, and shared the Song Of The Year prize with JEREMY BUSSEY for her “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” at the ceremony, held at NASHVILLE’s WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM.

LUKE COMBS was named Artist Of The Year, JIMMIE ALLEN was awarded Breakthrough Artist-Writer Of The Year, and TENILLE TOWNES won an award named for a MUSIC ROW journalist, the ROBERT K. OERMANN Discovery Artist Of The Year.

Winners were celebrated in 19 categories, honoring songwriters, musicians, artists, producers, publishers, labels and talent agencies for their work over the past year. Following is the full list of winners.

• Producer Of The Year: DANN HUFF
• Label Of The Year: UMG NASHVILLE
• Talent Agency Of The Year: CAA
• Breakthrough Songwriter Of The Year: JORDAN REYNOLDS
• Breakthrough Artist-Writer Of The Year: JIMMIE ALLEN
• Male Songwriter Of The Year: JOSH OSBORNE
• Female Songwriter Of The Year: HILLARY LINDSEY
• Song Of The Year: “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” — Songwriter(s): ASHLEY MCBRYDE, JEREMY BUSSEY
• ROBERT K. OERMANN Discovery Artist Of The Year: TENILLE TOWNES
• Breakthrough Artist Of The Year: ASHLEY MCBRYDE
• Artist Of The Year: LUKE COMBS

MUSICROW magazine also honored the Top 10 “Album All-Star Musicians” at the show, recognizing the studio players who performed on the most albums reaching the Top 10 of BILLBOARD’s Top Country Albums chart during the eligibility period. Those honorees are:

• Bass: JIMMIE LEE SLOAS
• Drums: NIR Z
• Engineer: JUSTIN NIEBANK
• Guitar: DEREK WELLS
• Fiddle (3-way tie): STUART DUNCAN, JENEE FLEENOR, ALISON KRAUSS
• Keyboards: CHARLES JUDGE
• Steel (tie): PAUL FRANKLIN, RUSS PAHL
• Vocals: RUSSELL TERRELL

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