Johnny Reid, Terri Clark & Dean Brody Are Big Canadian Country Music Award Winners

Johnny Reid and rising star Dean Brody each took home three trophies at the Canadian Country Music Awards tonight being held this year at Hamilton's Copps Coliseum.

Reid won the Fans' Choice Award, Male Artist of the Year and the CMT Video of the Year honors with "Today I'm Gonna Try and Change the World.". The Scottish-born, Toronto-transplant came into the evening holding a leading six nominations, including Album of the Year, for his sixth studio album A Place Called Love, which is certified double platinum in Canada.

But it was Dean Brody that took home the Album of the Year Award for his stellar work on Trail in Life. Brody also won Songwriter of the Year for the album's title track and won the Single of the Year for the same song.

"Every year I tell him 'one of these days, Dean, you're going to stand up there and take home not only a piece of glass but something much more than that,'" said Reid. "All the years and hard work ... to be recognized, it's wonderful."

"At one point we're living in (my wife's) parents' garage, I was so embarrassed, was hiding out from my own friends in my own town," recalled a teary Brody during his speech on stage."To be here today and to see my dad out there, he was crying. My dad doesn't cry. That means the world to me coming from where we started out."

Longtime country veteran Terri Clark took home the female artist of the year category for her fourth career CCMA. Clark was choked up during her speech too, telling the audience "I'm going to try and do this without crying." It was her first CCMA without her mother, who passed away due to cancer at 60. "It was a little bittersweet winning the award tonight," said Clark. "She was extremely important to me."


2011 CCMA WINNERS LIST:

FANS’ CHOICE AWARD
Johnny Reid

SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Trail in Life — Dean Brody

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Trail in Life — Dean Brody

SONGWRITER(S) OF THE YEAR
Trail In Life (written by Dean Brody; recorded by Dean Brody)

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Terri Clark

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Johnny Reid

CMT VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Today I’m Gonna Try and Change the World — Johnny Reid

GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Hey Romeo

ROOTS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Jimmy Rankin

RISING STAR
Chad Brownlee