Awards

Congratulations to the WINNERS & FINALISTS for the Best CDs of 2007! (Scroll Down To View)

The finalists were selected from hundreds of CDs submitted over fifteen catagories. In addition, ten songs of note are listed for 2007.

For more details about the submissions process, please visit our submissions guidelines page.

It is our hope that the awards will give well-deserved recognition to these outstanding works of innovative, independently produced acoustic music, and to generate interest in independent music in general.

BEST CDs of 2007: WINNERS &FINALISTS

	Artist	Title	Label
"Storyhill"	Acoustic Ensemble Darol Anger & Mike Marshall Storyhill Corinne West	******** Woodshop Storyhill Second Sight	******** Adventure Red House Self-Produced
"NeGrass"	Alt Country Drew Gibson Nathan Hamilton Laura Love	******** Letterbox 6 Black Birds NeGrass	******** Cragmont On the Corner Octoroon Biography
"Everything You See"	Alt. Rock The Actual Runrig Tara Fuki	******** In Stitches Everything You See Auris	******** Soft Drive Ridge Indies Scope
"Fork In The Road"	Americana Russ Barenberg Infamous Stringdusters Rich McCulley	******** When At Last Fork in the Road Cerro Gordo	******** Compass Sugar Hill Self-Produced
"Four On The Floor"	Celtic Garcia Old Blind Dogs Tiller’s Folly	******** Woven Ways Four on the Floor A River So Wide	******** Supraphon Compass Self-Produced
"Two Guitars, One Heart"	Instrumental Bellar & Neilson Creaking Tree String Quartet Ola Gjeilo	******** Two Guitars, One Heart The Soundtrack Stone Rose	******** New Harmony Self-Produced 2L
"Mujer De Cabaret"	Latin Johannes Linstead & Nicholas Gunn Andy Palacio Puerto Plata	******** Encanto Watina Mujer de Cabaret	******** Gemini Sun Cumbancha IASO
"Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier"	Best Lyrics Steve Earle Jez Lowe Corb Lund	******** Washington Square Seranade Jack Common’s Anthem Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier	******** New West Tantobie Stony Plain
"Latin Jazz"	Multi- Genre Steve Dyer Superstring Theory Various	******** Native Art Goes to Senegal Latin Jazz	******** Sony Africa Worldsoul Putumayo
"Who You Are"	Rock Ben Lee Cary Brothers Steven Mark	******** Ripe Who You Are Racing Grey	******** New West Bluhammock Basset
"Black Snake Moan"	Roots Black Snake Moan/Various Kort McCumber Jake Schepps	******** Black Snake Moan Lickskillet Road Ten Thousand Leaves	******** New West Lucky Nugget Fine Mighty
"In Love & Light"	Songwriter: Female Kate Isenberg Laura Marie Heidi Talbot	******** Time Comes on Humming Tracks Drawn In Love & Light	******** Three Roads Self-Produced Compass
"Edge of the World"	Songwriter: Male Jake Armerding John Batdorf Buddy Mondlock	******** Walking on the World Home Again Edge of the World	******** Self-Produced Self-produced Sparking Gap
"Afriki"	World Music: Africa Dobet Gnahore Habib Koite Tinariwen	******** Na Afriki Afriki Aman Iman	******** Cumbancha Cumbancha World Village
"Haran"	World Music: Eurasia Pharaoh’s Daughter Various Yellow Sisters	******** Haran Inspirations Singalana	******** Oyhoo Sona Rupa Indies Scope

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SONGS OF NOTE: 10 of the Best Songs from 2007

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ARTIST	SONG TITLE	CD TITLE	LABEL
Breabach	"Rolling Hills"	The Big Spree	Vertical
Larry Cordle	"I'm a Lie"	Took Down and Put Up	Lonesome Day
Free Hot Lunch	"You're Eating For Two Now"	Under The Big Top	Waha Surf Shop
Sandrine Kimberlain	"M'envoyer des Fleurs"	Women of the World Acoustic	Putumayo
Jimmy La Fave	"This Land"	Cimarron Manifesto	Red House
Dwight McCall	"Time of Our Lives"	Never Say Never Again	Rural Rhythm
Scott Miller	"Still People Are Moving"	Reconstruction	Sugar Hill
Mozaik	"Pigfarm Suite"	Changing Trains	Compass
Soul of John Black	"The Hole"	Good Girl BLues	Yellow Dog
Chris Webster	"Something in the Water"	Something In The Water	Digmusic