My Americana Awards for 2011
I appreciate/hope that ND will have another ‘Best of 2011’ on the run up to Christmas – only without the cheats who tried to fix the results and the pedants who found fault with the ‘system;’ but after hearing the Official Americana Music Awards winners today I thought I’d let you know who should have won each category (in my opinion!).
ALBUM
1) Harlem River Blues – Justin Townes Earle
2) Kitty Wells Dresses – Laura Cantrell.
3) Mountains – JT Nero.
ARTIST
1) Slaid Cleaves.
2) Justin Townes Earle
3) David Olney.
INSTRUMENTALIST
1) Sarah Jarosz
2) Sam Wear (the Wilders)
3) Jon Rauhouse
NEW ACT
1) Pete Molinari
2) Neil Getz
3) The O’s
BEST GROUP/DUO
1) Band of Heathens
2) The Wilders
3) The Black Lillies
SONG OF THE YEAR
1) Harlem River Blues – Justin Townes Earle
2) Fight – Ben Kweller
3) Take the High Road – the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Feel free to discuss and/or add your own opinions.
PS – to the pedants out there – forgive any spelling mistakes; I’m tired and angry so can’t be bothered to cross reference names!