Australia’s home of country music Compass Bros Records, celebrates its remarkable sixteen nominations in the 37th CMAA Country Music Awards, announced this morning at the Sydney Opera House.

Leading the Compass Bros nominations is Peter Denahy with five nominations – Male Artist Of The Year, Bush Ballad Of The Year, Instrumental Of The Year, APRA Song Of The Year and Video Clip Of The Year.

This week we had Kirsty Lee Akers in the studio recording vocals for her upcoming album due out on January 10, no title as yet but you’ll read it here first – so keep checking back. Once recording duties are over Kirsty will head out with The Sunny Cowgirls on their 'Dust Will Settle' tour, supporting them from November 7th till November 16th – for more details be sure to check out the gig guide section on this site.

Compass Brothers Records today announced a new partnership with Shock Entertainment. The deal marks an exclusive arrangement commencing in November 2008, whereby Shock Entertainment will sell and distribute Compass Brothers Records music & DVD releases. In addition to this Shock Entertainment will represent Compass Brothers Records online catalogue internationally.

“Compass Bros is delighted to be associated with David Williams, Marcus Seal, Aneta Butcher and the Shock team and look forward to a long and prosperous relationship.” Graham Thompson Compass Brothers Records.