Terry Bennetts Music Awards

2024

Tamworth C.C.M.A. Songwriting Awards - Lyrics Only- ‘Chasing Rabbits in Her Sleep’

Tamworth Songwriting Association Awards - Lyrics Only - ‘Chasing Rabbits in Her Sleep’

2023

  • Tamworth CCMA Awards - National Composer of the Year - ‘Rabbit Flat Polka’

  • Tamworth Songwriting Association Awards - Best Bush Ballad Song ‘The Dinner Tree’

2022

  • Tamworth C.C.M.A. Songwriting Awards - National Composer of the Year - 'Calling of the Heart'

  • Stan Coster Memorial Awards - Best Male Vocalist - 'Not Without You Old Mate'

  • Stan Coster Memorial Awards - Best Songwriter - 'Not Without You Old Mate' with Keith Lethbridge

  • Tamworth Songwriting Association (TSA) - Comedy Song of the Year - 'Welcome to Australia'

2021

  • Gidgee Coals Bush Ballad Awards - Comedy Song 'Welcome to Australia'

2020

  • CCMA Awards Tamworth - National Composer of the Year - 'Scrubby Creek'

  • Southern Stars CM Awards - Bush Ballad Songwriter with Tom Maxwell/Ray Rose - Dust of Australia

2019

  • Tamworth Songwriting Association (TSA) Song Of The Year -'Station Minderoo' with Keith Lethbridge

  • Tamworth Songwriting Association (TSA) Best Bush Ballad -'Station Minderoo' with Keith Lethbridge

  • Gold Medallion Media Awards - Best Country Musician - S/C/W

2018

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards (Brumby's) - Best Collaboration - Band of Mates - 'Sons of Australia' - Songwriting

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards (Brumby's) - Recording Producer - 'Sons of Australia'

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards (Brumby's) - Best Collaboration - Band of Mates - 'Sons of Australia'

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Group - Band of Mates - 'Sons of Australia'

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Instrumental with Alisha Smith - ‘Chicken Pickin'

  • Gold Medallion Media Awards - Best Bush Balladeer - S/C/W

2017

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards (Brumby's) - Instrumental Songwriter - ‘Turquoise Bay’

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards (Brumby's) - Best Instrumental - ‘Turquoise Bay’

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Bush Ballad Album (Salt of the Earth)

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Instrumental - Turquoise Bay

  • Boyup Brook WA Country Music Awards - Best Male Artist

  • Gold medallion Media Awards - Best Bush Balladeer - S/C/W

2016

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards - Best Inspirational Songwriter - ‘A Battle That's Worth Fighting’

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards - Instrumental Songwriter - ‘Pardoo Station’

  • A.I.C.M.A. awards - Best Instrumental - ‘Pardoo Station’

  • ASA Awards - Best Instrumental - ‘Turquoise Bay’

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Instrumental - ‘Pardoo Station’

  • Boyup Brook WA Country Music Awards - Best Single - ‘Fitzroy River’

  • People's Choice Awards Tamworth - Best Bush Ballad - ‘The Old Camp Oven’

2015

  • Gold Medallion Media Awards - SCW Country Musician of the Year

  • A.I.C.M.A. Awards - Best Instrumentalist - ‘Riders of the Kimberley’

  • ASA Awards - Best Live Performance - ‘Riders of the Kimberley’

  • ASA Awards - Best Instrumental - ‘Riders of the Kimberley’

  • Gidgee Coals Bush Ballad awards - Best Male Artist - ‘Fitzroy River’

  • Gidgee Coals Bush Ballad Awards - Best Instrumental - ‘Gnangara Sunset’

2014

  • AICMA Awards - Best Instrumental - ‘Gnangara Sunset’

  • Golden Medallion Media Awards - Best Country Musician - Central West

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Instrumental - ‘Somewhere Along the Track’

  • Boyup Brook WA CM Awards - Best Songwriter with Keith Lethbridge - ‘Fitzroy River’

2013

  • Boyup Brook WA CM Awards - Best Songwriter with Keith Lethbridge - ‘Little Irish Mother’

Terry and Jenny Bennetts Awards

2010

  • Boyup Brook WA Country Music Awards - Best Male Artist

2009

  • Gold Medallion Media Awards - Best Country Musician - Central West

  • Boyup Brook WA Country Music Awards - Best Single - 'Where Has My Australia Gone'

  • Boyup Brook WA Country Music Awards - Best Album - 'Songs of our Land'

  • T.I.A.R.A. Awards - Best Bush Ballad - 'Where Has My Australia Gone'

2008

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Instrumental - 'Freight Train Boogie'

2007

  • Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards - Best Duo - 'I Miss The Good Old Days'

2006

  • Stan Coster Memorial Bush ballad Awards - Jenny Bennetts - Best Female Vocalist 'Camooweal'

  • Tasmanian and NZ Songwriting Awards - Best Bush Ballad - 'The Horses Stay Behind'

  • Victorian TSA Songwriting Awards - Best Bush Ballad - 'An Old Country Waltz'

2005

  • Tasmanian and NZ Songwriting Awards - Best EP - 'Soldier With His Banjo'

2003

  • Boyup Brook WA Country Music Awards - Australian Song of the Year - Cold Wind'

2002

  • Boyup Brook WA Country Music Awards - Australian Song of the Year - First Winter Rains'

2001

  • North Qld Songwriters Awards - Song of the Year in all categories,- Stan Coster Memorial Award - 'First Winter Rains'

  • George Crowley Memorial Award - Best Bush Ballad - 'First Winter Rains'

  • Queensland TSA Songwriters Awards - Traditional/Bush Ballad Song of the Year - 'First Winter Rains'

  • Victorian TSA Songwriting Awards - Country & Gospel Song of the Year - 'Life’s Open Road'

  • North Queensland Songwriters Awards - Traditional/Bush Ballad 1st & 2nd place - 'Forty Years A Railway Man' and 'Happy Birthday Mate'

  • Boyup Brook WA CM Awards - Australian Song of the Year - 'Forty Years a Railway Man'

1998

  • West Australian Music Industry Awards - Blues Song of the Year - 'Red Hot Lovin'Blues'

Red Dog Recording Studios

Our recording studio is located in Kallaroo WA and was built to record the Terry and Jenny albums and to do demos of our songs to pitch to other country artists, but over the years we have been asked by various singers, songwriters, and guitarists to produce their CDs for them.

We record using Pro Tools and use a wide range of microphones and Preamps to achieve the results we desire, mainly to suit acoustic-sounding country recordings with a more Bush Ballad feel to them.

The albums are recorded and produced by Terry Bennetts and mastered by Mark Donohoe at Apollo 11 Recording Studios, Lee Buddle at Crank Recording Studios, and Jeff McCormack.

Albums Produced at Red Dog Studios

2022 - The Dinner Tree - Terry Bennetts (award-winning)

2020 - A Fortunate Life - Terry Bennetts (award winning)

2018 - Guitar Picker - Terry Bennetts (award-winning)

2016 - Salt of the Earth - Terry Bennetts (award-winning)

2015 - Wags and Dags - Bill Gordon

2014 - Mateship - Terry Bennetts (award-winning)

2013 - Road To Beagle Bay - Ginger Cox

2013 - The Gippsland Balladeer - Evan Platschinda

2011 - The Kimberley Guitar Man - Ginger Cox

2011 - Homegrown - Deb Beckett

2009 - Life, Love and Laughter Lines - Deb Beckett

2009 - Luckiest Man Alive - Evan Platschinda

2008 - Rhythm and Rhyme - Keith Jamieson and Alisha Smith

2008 - Songs of our Land - Terry and Jenny (award-winning)

2007 - Theo Stieke Plays Harmonica - Theo Stieke

2006 - Travelling Australia - Evan Platschinda

2006 - The Good Old Days - Terry and Jenny (award-winning)

2005 - The Soldier With His Banjo - Terry and Jenny (award-winning EP)