1981 Academy of Country Music Awards

Awards
- 1981 Music Awards
-- Academy of Country Music Awards

--- 1981 Academy of Country Music Awards

Details & Performances

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Awards

Album of the Year

  • Alabama - Feels So Right
  • Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
  • Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache
  • The Oak Ridge Boys - Fancy Free

Band of the Year - Non-Touring

  • Desperados/Johnny Mosby/Jonie Mosby
  • Ed Mattos/Sound Company
  • Jimmy Snyder/Palomino Riders
  • Bayou City Beats/Freddy Biano
  • Geary Hanley Band

Band of the Year - Touring

  • Merle Haggard/The Strangers
  • Willie Nelson & Family Band
  • Charlie Daniels Band Lyrics
  • Asleep at the Wheel/Ray Benson
  • Mickey Gilley/Urban Cowboy Band

Best Bass

  • Joe Osborn
  • Curtis Stone
  • Emory Gordy
  • Mike Leech
  • Red Wootten

Best Drums

  • Buddy Harmon
  • James Burton
  • Jerry Kroon
  • Al Bruno
  • Larrie Londin
  • Biff Adam
  • Archie Francis

Best Fiddle

Best Piano / Keyboard

  • Hargus Robbins
  • Floyd Cramer
  • Glen D. Hardin
  • Billy Liebert
  • John Hobbs

Best Steel Guitar

  • Buddy Emmons
  • Ralph Mooney
  • Lloyd Green
  • Sonny Garrish
  • J.D. Maness
  • Sneaky Pete

Entertainer of the Year

Female Vocalist of the Year

Guitar

  • Phil Bauch
  • Thumbs Carlisle
  • Grady Martin
  • Roy Nichols

Jim Reeves Memorial Award

  • Al Gallico

Male Vocalist of the Year

New Female Vocalist of the Year

New Male Vocalist of the Year

Pioneer Award

  • Leo Fender

Single Record of the Year

Song of the Year

  • Larry Collins, Sandy Pinkard - You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma
  • Jan Crutchfield - It Turns Me Inside Out
  • Jim Hurt, Tim DuBois - Love in the First Degree
  • Merle Haggard - My Favorite Memory Lyrics
  • Randy Owen - Feels So Right

Specialty Instrument

  • Charlie McCoy
  • Buck Trent
  • Smokey Rogers
  • John Hartford
  • Terry McMillian
  • Danny Davis

Tex Ritter Award

  • Any Which Way You Can
  • Stand By Your Man
  • Take This Job and Shove It
  • Coward of the County

Vocal Duet of the Year

  • David Frizzell & Shelly West
  • Joe Stampley & Moe Bandy
  • Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
  • Louise Mandrell & R.C. Bannon
  • Don Williams & Emmylou Harris

Vocal Group of the Year

Top Winning Artist

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