Category 36 - Best Female Country Vocal Performance
The Connection/Emmylou Harris Mississippi Girl/Faith Hill All Jacked Up/Gretchen Wilson I May Hate Myself In The Morning/ Lee Ann Womack Georgia Rain/Trisha Yearwood
Category 37 - Best Male Country Vocal Performance
You'll Think Of Me/Keith Urban Funny How Time Slips Away/ George Jones As Good As I Once Was/ Toby Keith Midnight Communion/ Delbert McClinton Good Ol' Boys/Willie Nelson Alcohol/Brad Paisley
Category 39 - Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
Like We Never Loved At All/ Faith Hill & Tim McGraw Building Bridges/ Brooks & Dunn, Sheryl Crow & Vince Gill Shelter From The Storm/ Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris Dreams Come True/ Willie Nelson & Norah Jones Politically Uncorrect/ Gretchen Wilson & Merle Haggard
Category 40 - Best Country Instrumental Performance
Unionhouse Branch/ Alison Krauss And Union Station I'll Fly Away/Charlie Daniels Who's Your Uncle?/ Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush & Bela Fleck Scotch&Chocolate/Nickel Creek Time Warp/Brad Paisley
Category 41 -Best Country Song
Bless The Broken Road/Rascal Flatts Alcohol/Brad Paisley All Jacked Up/Gretchen Wilson I Hope/Dixie Chicks I May Hate Myself In The Morning/ Lee Ann Womack
Category 42 - Best Country Album
Lonely Runs Both Ways/ Alison Krauss And Union Station Fireflies/Faith Hill Time Well Wasted/Brad Paisley All Jacked Up/Gretchen Wilson Jasper County/Trisha Yearwood
Category 43 - Best Bluegrass Album
The Company We Keep/ The Del McCoury Band Marbletown/Blue Highway Cherryholmes/Cherryholmes The Grascals/The Grascals Ragin' Live/ Rhonda Vincent And The Rage