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2005-2006 Just Plain Folks Music Awards Album Nominees:

A Cappella Album Nominees Artist Location
Bridges SoVoSo CA
Everybody Sing Hampton Avenue ON
for show Eclipse UT
Groove Society Groove Society CO
In the Key of She Key of She NJ
Standing Room Only Vocal Point UT
Tesseract Clockwork CA
Watch Me Fly Talisman A Cappella CA

African Album Nominees Artist Location
African Bohemian Kaysha Congo
Allez! Zuba Liberia
BataMbira Michael Spiro/Michael Williams Zimbabwe
Realidade D'Amor Belinda Cape Verde
World CitiZen YESHE Ghana
Wunda, Wunda! Dinka Malual Sudan
Yaye Digalma Jimi M'baye Senegal
Zebra Crossing Zebra Crossing South Africa

Alternative Album Nominees Artist Location
Destructive Behavior Amber Brooke Band GA
Distanza phoenix/NEBULIN FL
DREMANA DREMANA IL
Fast & Cheap Jessy Moss CA
Freakshow Muffy Nixon NY
Screwtiny Jaclyn Whittal ON
Shrine Of Counterfeits Matahari ME
These Things We Say Ms. Led WA

Ambient Album Nominees Artist Location
activate m-seven QC
Blank Screen Cinema Braille MI
Exergonic Sonic Adventure Project Austria
Fragments of a Nightmare Accurst NJ
perspection the NOISETTES WA
Planes, Trance and Life's Karma Wheels Cybermonkey ON
Red Room Diner Resonator Germany
underCURRENTs Current Spain

Americana Album Nominees Artist Location
Happy Face Kim McLean TN
Melic Hayseed FL
Moments of Wonder Kathy Hussey TN
One Drop of Poison Circe Link CA
Sing Me Out Kate Campbell TX
Sparks In The Radio Jim Photoglo TN
The Back Fields Tim Grimm IN
The Town's Old Fair Josh Lederman y Los Diablos MA

Asian Album Nominees Artist Location
A Compilation of Tibetan Folk and Freedo Techung Tibet
Black Asia Vol 1 r-H Singapore
Dhyana Aman: Meditation of No Mind Manose Nepal
Feel Yourself Russian! Moscow Nights Russia
Heart of the Wind Masayuki Koga Japan
Middle Kingdom 2 Noel Quinlan China
Tales (nhung chu yenke) Quoc-Bao Vietnam
TIBOK NG PUSO BEVERLY Philippines

Bluegrass Album Nominees Artist Location
America's Favorite Hymns America's Bluegrass Band KY
Covered Bridge The Gordons IL
Frontyard Junkyard The DeWayn Brothers KS
In The Mountaintops to Roam David Peterson & 1946 TN
Liquid Mule 23 North NC
Sing Me Back Home Jerry Sartain TX
The Badly Bent The Badly Bent CO
Travelin' On Hickory Project PA

Blues Album Nominees Artist Location
Beggars, Rogues & Thieves Jeff Scheetz band MO
Blue Voodoo Mark Cook GA
Brand New World Steve White CA
Colorblind Forrest McDonald GA
Long Gone Lonesome Blues Thomas Fraser Scotland
Old Soul Jimmy Bowskill ON
Timeless Clarence Gatemouth Brown CA
Voice of the Blues Sam Taylor NY

Cabaret Album Nominees Artist Location
A Different View Barbara Martin VA
As Advertised Justin Hines and the Headphone NY
Coffee, Chocolate & Men Jen Rathbun TX
Kiki & Herb Will Die For You  at Carnegi Kiki & Herb NY
Nize Baby Buck Evans AK
Sail Away Doctor Sparkles VA
STORY SONGS Denise Whittier VT
The Bicycle Men The Bicycle Men CA

Cajun Album Nominees Artist Location
All The Way Live Lisa Haley CA
Buffalo Jambalaya 2004 LIVE Savoy Family Band,Carrier Fami MD
Five BuckFiddle Five Buck Fiddle AK
Have No Fear Robin Lacy OH
Mon Coeur Est Avec Toi Cleoma's Ghost NY
repeat offender chris belleau and the zydeco h LA
Smokin' Zydeco Bonne Musique Zydeco CA
Spice it Up The Crawdaddies MD

Caribbean Album Nominees Artist Location
Buleya Long John Oliva AC Timba Jazz Cuba
Cachete y los Majaderos Cachete Maldonado Puerto Rico
Hot Caribbean Miziks Hot Caribbean Miziks (Artist is A France
Live Groov' La Haiti
Love Songs For You Yanick Etienne Haiti
Out Di Fire Teddy Greaves Bermuda
Presqu'ile Angus Martin Haiti
Si Guy Robert Jean Haiti

Celtic Album Nominees Artist Location
An Intelagent Design Na'Bodach PA
Beachland Bootleg Prodigals NY
Better Already BEN SANDS N. Ireland
Indoor Driving Raven OR
Live in Galway The Saw Doctors Ireland
Liver Let Die The Poxy Boggards CA
Ready for the Storm The Browne Sisters and George  CA
The Gettin's Good Darby O'Gill OR

Celtic Intrumental Album Nominees Artist Location
Bruscar Bán Culchies IN
Dragonfly Redux An Dochas WA
LIVE at the Barns At Wolf Trap Bonnie Rideout Scotish Trio VA
Once Upon a Time:  Music of Innocence an CANTIGA TX
Scotland's Lighthouses Cal Scott OR
Shades of Green Jamie Laval OR
The Celtic Collection 1992-2001 Bill Thurman AR
Trip Bad Haggis CA

Children's Album Nominees Artist Location
A Pocket of Tunes Dr. Mac and friends CA
Hyperactive Talking Cows Uncle Eye CA
MishMashMusic Sampler Michael Mish OR
My Best Friend is a Salamander Peter Himmelman CA
No! They Might Be Giants NY
Return To Andyland Andy Z CA
Sticky Situations Chris Hamilton BC
The Tomten and the Fox - New Classical M Mark Petering WI

Children's Storytelling Album Nominees Artist Location
Aesop's Fables Michael Mish OR
Cool in School Bill Harley MA
Father And Son Stories Kym Lardner Australia
Irish Tales Celia Farran WI
Mr. Quizmee Asks About Animals Quizzenkids Productions CA
Play It Again, Mom! ADRtists CA
The Complete Season One Dr. Floyd's Radio Adventures CA
The Toy Box Francie Dillon CA

Classical Orchestral Album Nominees Artist Location
David. F. Golightly Symphony no 1 City of Prague Philharmonic Or UK
Horizons Jon Ward Bauman MD
In Norway Aaron Rosand CA
Masterworks of the New Era - VOLUME TW Philharmonia Bulgarica / Robert Ukraine
Mozart Flute Concertos and Quartet Laurel Zucker CA
Musically Speaking Beethoven / Gerard Schwarz, Co CA
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto Manchester Music Festival Sym CA
Symphonic Jobim Antonio Carlos Jobim NY

Classical Chamber Album Nominees Artist Location
Beethoven-2 Quartets Borromeo String Quartet CT
Flute Music by French Composers Ransom Wilson CT
Haydn London Trios & Divertimentos Laurel Zucker, Renee Siebert,  CA
Julie Ann Giacobassi, English Horn & Obo Julie Ann Giacobassi CA
Live in Belgrade Violin piano duo of Volodja Ba Slovenia
Old New Worlds Pedro de Alcantara NY
Out of the Woods, Twentieth-Century Fren TreVent  Wind Trio NC
Twentieth Century Music for Flute & Pian Laurel Zucker and Marc Shapiro CA

Classical Solo Album Nominees Artist Location
Bach Goldberg Variations Chloe Christian Pang CA
Brahms Piano Works, Op. 76 and Handel V Vera Breheda CA
Inflorescence 2-Music for Solo Flute Laurel Zucker CA
Plays Beethoven and Berg Andreas Klein CA
Robert Schumann, Kreisleriana Sergio Gallo CA
Russian and Trepak Friedrich Lips WI
Soundscapes for Solo Viola, Scott Slapin Scott Slapin CA
Svensson Plays Mozart Magnus Svensson WA

Classical Voice/Opera Solo Nominees Artist Location
A Mother's Love Helene Zindarsian CA
Chansons d'Amour Mark DuBois ON
Donnie Ray Albert - In Recital Donnie Ray Albert TX
Kurt Weill: Marie Galante Suite, Songs f Joy Bogen NY
Per l'Amore Nancy Yuen - Somtow Sucharitk CA
Terra Incognita Christel Veraart CA
The Dramatic A. Paul Johnson FL
The Music Within Vol. 1 Mark DuBois ON

Classical Voice/Opera Choral Nominees Artist Location
An Angel's Christmas Sara Botkin PA
Chants Sacres d'Armenie Lucineh Hovanissian Armenia
How Can  I Keep From Singing? Busan Elders Choir VA
Latin Choral Tradition Church Of The Holy Ghost Choir CO
Mairneas Navan WI
Requiem The Brian Conn New Music Ense IL
Requiem Raymond Torres-Santos PR
SIX FABLES- based on the writings of var Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia MA

College Rock Album Nominees Artist Location
Digital Self SPIN 66 TX
Gabriel Mann Gabriel Mann CA
Get it  Wrong, It's Alright Solly TX
Go Vertical Horizon CA
Grief Can Kill An Elephant Deejer TX
Hoochie Coochie Bowman AZ
Recess Serenade the Argument WV
Waves Saul Zonana NY

Comedy Album Nominees Artist Location
Best Of  Volume 5   Nelson & Terry OR
Dog Years Mike Birbiglia NY
I'm Still Thinking... Bill Scott PA
John Vorhees Just Doesn't Give A ... John Vorhees IL
More Moo Moos Jim Gaffigan NY
Speak When Spoken To Dan Smith CA
Stand-up for men Kevin  Hughes NC
That's Not Right! Kevin Meaney NY

Compilation Album Nominees Artist Location
Anti-Theft Device Vote in November - Election 20 PA
Connecti Cuts Various Artists CT
HOME A Compilation of Women Singer-Son Various Artists MO
More Ways Than Three Various Artist IL
SONGWRITERS ON BEALE ST VARIOUS ARTISTS TN
Sounds of New England, Vol. 1 17 Folk Artists of New England MA
The Awakening Sleeping Giant Music CA
The World is a Narrow Bridge Craig Taubman- Various Artists CA

Contemporary Album Nominees Artist Location
All The Time In The World Lowen & Navarro CA
I Dreamed of Rain Jan Garrett & J.D. Martin CO
In Angel's Arms Corinne Chase MA
In Memory Of Tanya Leah FL
Musicbox Peter Mayer TN
Simple Life Michael Monroe MN
The Wonderground BoyMeetsGirl Music CA
You Set My Dreams To Music Steve Dorff CA

Contemporary Christian Album Nominee Artist Location
After the Chase After the Chase CA
Grain Of Sand Jerry Wise TN
I Will The Brown Band TX
In Awe of You Scott Reed CA
Lost Highway Ryan Horne GA
Return Bradley Vail Band CA
Watershed Watershed MD
Where You Remain Ali Matthews ON

Country Album Nominees Artist Location
A Life Less Ordinary Chelsee Oaks MI
Backyard Holiday Don Campbell ME
Dead Man Walkin' Scott Hisey OH
Harmony Man Billy Yates TN
Here Cheley Tackett TN
Makes Perfect Sense sheila marshall TX
The Lost Nashville Chronicles John Foster TN
The Mamasitas The Mamasitas TN

Cover/Tribute Album Nominees Artist Location
A Tribute to Led Zeppelin Led Zepagain CA
all wood and stones John Batdorf & James Lee Stanl CA
All You Need Is Live 1964...The Tribute OH
beatlegras beatlegras TX
Homemade Spaceship The Music of ELO P P. Hux MD
Interpretations Dale Turner CA
Magical Moods of the Theremin Project: Pimento CA
now the day is over the innocence mission CA

Dance Album Nominees Artist Location
A Tribute To The King King Jr. CA
BASS CITY VOL1 Andromeda UK
BASS CITY VOL2 Andromeda UK
Dust Off And Dance Tiffany CA
Eclectic JC UK
Putty In Their Hands - Thrills & Chills Triprocket TX
Vallesca Vallesca PR
Velvet SHANI CA

Educational Album Nominees Artist Location
99 Ways To Get More Out Of Every Day Gene Griessman, Ph.D. GA
Down the Dirt Road Blues Spencer Bohren LA
Lessons From Legends Gene Griessman GA
Literature Of The Harlem Renaissance Sheila Evans NY
The Greatest Cartoon Voice Tricks Ever S Patrick Fraley CA
The Star Children Daniel Jacob WA
To Our Little Sisters With Love Karen Jenkins & Tracy Wise DE
What Every Musician Should Know About S Bob Baker MO

Electronic Album Nominees Artist Location
2 Days or Die Atlas Plug CT
A Sip of Sunshine redCola: Paul & Price CA
Break Out Of Prism Solovox OR
digital confessions duke b NY
Fortune Favors The Bald Q*Ball NJ
Helmutvision pH10 CO
Position Music Solamingus CA
Progression Munkie UK
Supertweeker Supertweeker CA

European Album Nominees Artist Location
bla kongo Bla Kongo Sweden
In Love Again Soumia France
Maksimale Sikkness Mad Maks & Sikk Germany
Mi ACCORDO Daniele Groff Italy
Premier Regard Dana Kern France
Real Epic Demetrios Katis Greece
Revolution Bryo Switzerland
Sun Behind the Stern(Russian) Spasenie Belarus
What Is Gone Doesn't Necessarily Disappe Alalie Lilt Austria

Experimental Album Nominees Artist Location
Billy X: Solo Set Billy X. Curmano MN
Bullheaded The art of who did CA
COMBINES 2 perry botkin CA
COMBINES 3 perry botkin CA
Hates Mike Macharyas Erin Smogor NY
Lullaby And Other Music RobSound Brazil
Vecindario Global Andres Argil/alejandro Saqui Mexico
words and voices aesthetic evidence MA

Female Singer-Songwriter Album Nomi Artist Location
Ballads & Burlesque Rachael Sage NY
Billie's Bones Janis Ian TN
Bittertown Lori McKenna MA
Breathe The Same Air Brooke Fox NY
elusive Adrina Thorpe CA
Give In Anne Heaton NY
Love the Mess Rachel Loy TX
The Color Of Silence Tiffany CA
The Simply Said Session Jo Davidson NY
Under the Gypsy Sky Jenn Adams TN
Unexpected Erika Luckett CA
Yellow Cary Cooper TX

Gospel Album Nominees Artist Location
811 Masque IL
Break Thru The Spiritual Sonz GA
He Knows How West Tennessee Mass Choir TN
Heart of a Worshipper John Murray & Worship PA
Imagine East Bay Anointed Voices CA
It's In The Praise Dr. Pat Mckinstry, Chris Byrd  OH
Praise & Worship Volume 1 Elisha Parris and Heart's Desi FL
The Decade Pastor Gary L. Wyatt & SureHou WA

Hard Rock Album Nominees Artist Location
Deep Bloodroot NY
Dischord Smeer ON
Her Majesty Sophia Ramos NY
Infinite Infect Vegas In Space CA
Murder on My Mind Lovehammers IL
Personal Space Jet Motor Crash CA
Sovereign Mind Colporter CA
The Absence Point One WA

Hawaiian Album Nominees Artist Location
Hoaloha Maua Wendell Peters & Fernando Pere HI
Hoomalie Ray Sowders HI
How-lee The Hoppin' Haole Brothers NJ
In This Enchanted Place Manny K Fernandez OR
Ma'alahi Nawai HI
Slack Key West Jim "Kimo" West CA
Sweet and Sacred: A Fragrant Offering Bill Neubauer NY
White Sandy Beach Manea NV

Holiday Album Nominees Artist Location
All I Want For Christmas Hampton Avenue ON
December In Vermont Diane Zeigler VT
Django Bells The Gypsy Hombres TN
Irish Christmas Rollick Darby O'Gill OR
Midwinter--Songs of Christmas Misty River OR
On Angels' Wings Ali Matthews ON
Santa's Clones Hal Willis TN
This Christmas Morning Leslie Ritter & Scott Petito NY

Indian Classical/Traditional Nominees Artist Location
Desert Charm Gypsies of Rajasthan India
Rasayana Purbayan Chatterjee & Shashan India
Pure Kaushiki Chakrabarty India
In Union Ajoy Chakrabarty India
Kala Kala Ramnath India
Bhajans Shakti Vilas Italy
Shehnai Daya Shankar India
Radiant N. Rajam India

Indian Album Nominees Artist Location
Bandish Fusion Subhen Chatterjee India
Bas Hun Aman CA
Dasi: Prayers by Women Karnamrita CA
Gypsyindia Babukishan India
My Love Is You Rupam Sarmah CA
Sattva Manish Vyas CO
The Udhav Shinde Trio The Udhav Shinde Trio Belgium
Yours for the Taking Signia BC

Industrial Album Nominees Artist Location
1989-1999: "Hasten The Burning With The  Out Out MA
Atomic Erotic V.S.B. Germany
Cold and naked A New January IL
CONVENIENCE Die Warzau IL
Devil At The Wheel CRUD MI
Something To Cry About Db9d9 CA
The Repo Session Ghost in the Machine WI
Vortex Collide CA

Instrumental Album Nominees Artist Location
Ariel View: Tone Poems for Violin and Pi Karen Bentley & Bruce Hanifan AL
Cruisin' the Creek Gary Sredzienski & The Serfs ME
Glass Stories Donal Hinely TN
Jordan and the Dog Woman Beth Denisch MA
Musica Incantata Quartetto Amoroso CA
Perpetual motion Angelo DiPippo NY
Quartet San Francisco Jeremy Cohen CA
Visions for Flute and Harp Laurie Conrad NY

Instrumental Jazz Album Nominees Artist Location
Blue After Hours Dan Jacobs MI
Critical Brass Hungry March Band NY
New Groove Blues Steve Yeager MN
NOUVEAU The Gypsy Hombres TN
Pacific Coast Highway Nils Jiptner CA
Stick Figures Terry Bowness TX
Tevet Sela Tevet Sela Israel
Violin Jazz Jeremy Cohen CA

Jewish Album Nominees Artist Location
Ahavah Rabah Rebecca   PA
Beyond Tomorrow Julie Silver CA
Friday Night Live Craig Taubman CA
Gan Shirim, A Garden Of Songs Carol Boyd Leon VA
Journey Neshama Carlebach NY
Pieces of Light Pizmon NY
Prayers/Tefilot Rebecca Teplow NJ
Slice Of Light Uzca CA

Klezmer Album Nominees Artist Location
Actions Speak Louder Than Words Klezmer Juice CA
Amulet Nikitov MN
Close Enough for Klezmer The Alexandria Kleztet MD
Freylach Time! The Klezmer Dance Band Freylach Time! NC
Live from KlezKamp! The Staff Concerts 1 Various Artists NY
Nakhes Fun Klezmer Dobe Ressler And Di Bostoner K MA
New Jersey Freylekhs The Klez Dispensers NY
Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge Andy Statman NY

Latin Album Nominees Artist Location
Aqui Vengo Debbie Spain
BIOS Gandhi FL
BONGOLAND Cecilia Noël & the Wild Clams CA
Cuentame Jose Val FL
Gozalo El Rubio Loco PC
Live At The Blue Note Big 3 Palladium Orchestra FL
Money Money Orquesta D'Soul CA
Selections from Tres Oraciones Lourdes Perez TX

Live Album Nominees Artist Location
24 Off The Board Nina Storey CO
A Night  At The Puppet House Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovia NY
Amy Fairchild Live Amy Fairchild MA
for show Eclipse UT
Live Steve Seskin CA
Live Bootleg Travis Meeks AZ
The Last Roundup Poco CA
Would You Please Welcome... Joe Rathbur Joe Rathburn CA

Male Singer-Songwriter Album Nominee Artist Location
Before The Separation Freebo CA
Bob Gentry Bob Gentry CA
Born Too Late Bob Malone CA
Conduit Seth Horan NV
Give It All Away Billie Burke Estate WA
High Horse Brent Floren MN
Just Me Tim Moyer CA
Live Steve Seskin CA
One Voice, One Guitar - Vol. 2 Jim Femino PA
Revelation Land John William Davis CO
Road Ragas - LIVE Harry Manx BC
Theatre of the Unheard Darrell Scott TN

Metal Album Nominees Artist Location
...And Soon The Sun Will Rise... Medicine Tongue TX
degenerate matter deadsun TN
Johnstons Theory Wheeliebar WI
Psalms KriticKill TX
Puttin' the ass in class Str8jackit BC
The Balancing Act FLATLINE IL
The Plastic Parade Absent Society CA

Middle Eastern Album Nominees Artist Location
Ashra (the First Decade Collection) Bustan Abraham Israel
Beginnings Khatchig Armenia
Godfather Tom: Music from the Armenian U Gor Mkhitarian Armenia
One Yitzhak & Sigalit Sadehu Israel
Platinum ANDY Iran
SIX FABLES- based on the writings of var Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia Armenia
Taneh Wu Raneh Yousef Shamoun Syria
Visions Mirage Armenia

Modern Rock Album Nominees Artist Location
Complete Demos Tally Hall MI
How To Sell The Whole F#@!ing Universe T Sir Millard Mulch FL
Music For Life Brother Luke NV
Pigeonholes Neal Fox CA
Step Up To The Stereo Slider Reno's Men NJ
Telling Tales The Hoo-Hah Conspiracy UK
The Feeling of Far Fritz Doddy NJ
Vasectomy The Balls w/ Auditory Sculptur OR

Native American Album Nominees Artist Location
At Long Last Shylo's Song Al  Cleveland NY
Dancing the Full Moon Ron Warren MD
Kairos Terrylee Whetstone KS
Land of Our Birth Eagle Spirit CA
Peaceful Journey Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reiba OR
Story of the Redtail Hawk Mac Lopez CA
Voice From Within Michael Searching Bear OH
Waking Spirit Charlie Wayne Watson GA

New Age Album Nominees Artist Location
Buddha Lounge 3 Tau CA
Deep Within A Faerie Forest Gary Stadler & Wendy Rule CA
Nomad Andres Condon Germany
Presence Sita NM
Suncatcher Faith Rivera CA
The Open Path Keary BC
The Undershore Catherine Marie Charlton DE
Visions Lee Boice NJ

New Folk Album Nominees Artist Location
Ashes Cris Williamson WA
House of Silence Bryndle CA
Lucky If Easy Alfred James Band PA
Luv Songs For Grownups Dreamsicles TX
Out of Time Open Book NY
Sideshow Romance Juni Fisher TN
The Kitchen Tapes Lori McKenna MA
Underdog Wishing Chair KY

Novelty Album Nominees Artist Location
Every Man I Love is EIther Married, Gay, Kacey Jones TN
Live From Our Pants Fast & Dirty ON
My Momma Made Me Wear This- A Collection Roy Wood, Jr. AL
Rage Against the Mundane Tony Goldmark CA
Self-Bootleg Eric Schwartz NY
Sick Humor Carla Ulbrich SC
The Da Vinci Commode Damage Control Comedy Crew FL
The World's Favorite Cluckoratura Arias Orriel Smith CA

Polka Album Nominees Artist Location
3 Sessions in 1 Gary Kuchenbecker WI
A Taste of Switzerland FRITZ'S POLKA BAND NY
Dogs Playing Polka Big Lou's Polka Casserole CA
FPB On Tap FRITZ'S POLKA BAND NY
Polka Can't Die The Polkaholics IL
Polka Music Oooh Boy! Frank Moravcik OH
Whoop Up ! Polka Country Musicians CT
Wooden Heart LynnMarie & The Boxhounds TN

Pop Album Nominees Artist Location
Angels & Demons Cindy Alexander CA
Cinematic Jag Star TN
Famous Jeddrah CA
How We Fight The Animators NY
In This Moment Preeta Carlson HI
REACH SKAMP Lithuania
something For Nothing david z MD
Twelve Danielle McKee CA

Punk Album Nominees Artist Location
50 Foot Wave 50 Foot Wave VA
A Date With Destiny The Primetime Heroes KS
Blue Skies Forever Mary Prankster NY
Chinese Burn The Len Price 3 Australia
Eat the Night The Ettes CA
Fame and Flies Brat MD
Parade of Sinners Ken PA
Rock`n Road Annie Dufresne QC

R&B Album Nominees Artist Location
At the Casbah SHANI CA
FULL CIRCLE LION PA
Ghetto-Bourgeois Ginger Jackson CA
Got To Let It Go Angela Johnson NY
Honey Brown Honey Brown GA
Shades Nina Storey CO
Simply Ace TN
Time Traveler The Dazz Band CA

Rap Album Nominees Artist Location
3 ELEMENTS 3 ELEMENTS Sweden
Adversity Butterfly Toungz IN
Big Boi Tactics 6'6 240 WV
Big swiff-5yards to stardom Big swiff TX
''Boogie Joe The Grinder'' Bazooka Joe Gotti//B.J.G. CA
One Woman Army Ta-Ta NJ
The Initiative Soz CA
Urban Mind Expansion Most Chill SLACKMOB CA

Reggae Album Nominees Artist Location
Akila Barrett featuring the Wailers Band Akila Barrett Jamaica
Divine Creation ZION JUDAH Trinidad & Tobago
Where Is The Love Biggie Irie Barbados
Papa Africa Haile Maskel Jamaica
Public Property Public Property IA
Ready to Groove Tinga Stewart Jamaica
Sign of the Times Tippa Irie UK
The Realist Rashani Caribbean

Rock Album Nominees Artist Location
...to know a whale Duane Allen Harlick MI
Broken Douglas Wood CA
Practical Insanity Jody Whitesides CA
River To The Sea Simon Apple PA
Signs and Wonders King Street Healers SK
The Inside Jasmine Cain TN
The Revenge Of Pop*star*kids pOp*stAr*kiDs NY
This Magnificent Nonsence Square CA

Rock Instrumental Album Nominees Artist Location
Abyss Dennis H. Lotka CA
blue electric cool Curtis Fornadley CA
Burn Season Travis Larson Band CA
Electric Cartoon Music From Hell Electrocution 250 UK
Intensity Sydnei Carvalho - Alex Martinh Brazil
Italian Playboys The Link Quartet OR
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things Mark Wood NY
Up The Anesthetic Up The Anesthetic CA

Rockabilly Album Nominees Artist Location
Boogie Station Wild Willie & Big Deal Finland
catch me if you can pete worden and the hardtimers NY
Hooked on Jive Dave Taylor UK
Radio Friendly Hits For Your DJ To Play The Dempseys TN
Roostina Rumblejetts KS
Saturday Rich and Sunday Poor '52 Pickup MD
The Best Of Mark Kelf And The Valley Boy Mark Kelf And The Valley Boys TX
The Sun Also Rises, Vol. 1 Jamie Aaron Kelley IA

Roots Album Nominees Artist Location
Beyond Borders Andrew McKnight VA
Blue Eyed Darlin' Susie Glaze CA
Born Near the Waters . . . Kasey Rausch MO
Dear Mama The Merritts GA
Deliverance Amy Martin MT
Up From The Ground Below M Shanghai String Band NY
Whose Heart Is This? Candace Randolph TN
Wild -n- Swingin' Sweet Sunny South CO

Roots Instrumental Album Nominees Artist Location
11 Wonderful Bluegrass Instrumentals Mountain Hollow Music AL
Andy Pond and the CX-1 Blackhole Bluegra Andy Pond NC
Candlewyck Candlewyck NC
Copacetic Daniel Holt Bohannon GA
First Dance Mike Stahlman OR
Redwing Andy Hall TN
Shufflin' Richard Greene CA
Some Melodious Sonnet Hanneke Cassel MA

Salsa Album Nominees Artist Location
Breakthrough Orquesta La Palabra CA
It's ShoTime Chino Nunez and Friends FL
Nino Torrente & Son de Hoy Nino Torrente & Son de Hoy CT
Quimbombó Quimbombó NY
Renacer Orquesta Yambo IL
Salsa Pa'America Victor Hugo UK
Willie Sotelo Presenta Orquesta La Mundi Willie Sotelo PR
y seguimos bailando Rigo y su obra maestra PR

Self Help/Meditation Album Nominees Artist Location
A Moment's Peace Tracy Carreon TN
Are You Stuck?  A Self-Guided Process to Tricia Stewart Shiu CA
Grounding & Centering, from the Ancient  Laura Scott CT
Healing from Loss Dr. Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D MD
Java Jems: 5 minute inspirations for bus Cindi R. Maciolek NV
Reinventing Myself guided meditations Sonya Green WA
Stopping Smoking Dr. James E. Walton, Ph.D. CA
Weight Control Louis Eyres Hypnotherapist N. Ireland

Solo Guitar Album Nominees Artist Location
All Or Nothing Steve Cotten MA
Consistent Variation Rob Eberhard Young FL
Drifting Into Oblivion John Danley TN
Escape Velocity Andrew Smith BC
Guitar Peace Roger Hudson TN
Italian Fingerstyle Guitar Franco Morone CA
Ladies Night Preston Reed Scotland
The Rest of Angels Adam Keeler OH

Solo Instrumental Album Nominees Artist Location
Accordion Nights Kim Darwin BC
Bow and Cello Gretchen Yanover WA
Inflorescence -Music for Solo Flute(2 CD Laurel Zucker CA
Mbira Sanctuary Kevin Nathaniel NY
Qadim Tim Rayborn CA
Soliloquy Michael Manring CA
Thais To The Irish:  Fiddle Tunes From T David Algeo Smith IL
Without Words Lily Neill MD

Solo Piano Album Nominees Artist Location
Cold-Hearted Orb Roger MacNaughton MI
Looking Back Leland Dent WA
On The Loose Bruce Stoller AZ
Rose Garden Suite Michael Allen Harrison OR
Seasons of a Heart David Hampton TN
Tootsie Tunes Richard Freitas CT
Touch the Sky Mike Strickland WA
Ultreya Markus Burger CA

Soundtrack Album Nominees Artist Location
Caravan Tim Story OH
Dr. Phibes Rises Again John Gale CA
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Denny Zeitlin CA
Jesus, again? Bjarne O. Denmark
The Basket Motion Picture Soundtrack Don Caron WA
The Greatest Good Lance Bendiksen CO
THE PATSY - Motion Picture Soundtrack Vivek Maddala CA
Wilson Chance - The Sound of Danger Hammondbeat OR

South & Central American Album Nomin Artist Location
Cantopoe Tangoman Argentina
Cosecha Chaskinakuy Andes
Deslizando Sobre Ondas de Tensăo ( Slidi Zabomba Brazil
Incas in Cyberspace Incas in Cyberspace Peru
InkAmerica InkAmerica Peru
Inverse/universe Claudia Villela & Ricardo Peixoto Brazil
Mamitay Pachacamac Andes
Musicians Farmers and Poets Nicaraguan Fair Trade Farmers Nicaragua

Spoken Word Album Nominees Artist Location
Exposed JEN/ed NY
F*cking Poetry Rachel Kann CA
Fallen Light Renew Amanda Kramer CA
Get Familiar - CD 2 Live @ The Oakland Bo Queen Sheba CA
Hostile Intentions Chamber 7 CA
Love Costs Renea L. Moss FL
Performance Anxiety Aimee Herman CT
the sista factor (live) b.r.burns TX

Storytelling Album Nominees Artist Location
Afterhell -- Dark Descent Ollin Productions OR
An Original Radio Drama: The Battle of Alca Actors Scene Unseen NC
Aunt Ruby's Funeral Trip Patsy Hatfield Lawson TN
Christmas at Southern White Old Lady Hos Andy Offutt Irwin GA
George & Ruth--Songs and Letters of the Sp Tony Saletan, Sylvia Miskoe, D MA
HOLD ME FAST Dan Domench ME
Poe's Greatest Hits: Tales & Poems by the Norman  George MA
Son-Of-A-Gun Stew: A Texas Cowboy's Gat Dennis Gaines TX
The ODASea: A Night Sea Journey Jean-Vi Lenthe NM

Surf Album Nominees Artist Location
Double Diamonds Deluxe Shig and the Buzz CA
POINT ZERO The Atlantics Australia
Rides Again! Longboard Ranch CA
Somewhere in California The Torquays DE
Surf Americana The Plungers TX
Surf! Surf! Surf! Aqualads NC
They're Alive The Seamonkees WA
Thrills & Chills The Moon-Rays IL

Techno Album Nominees Artist Location
Underground Industry Digital Beat Finland
Maconda4th Maconda UK
The World of Sound soundhole CA
13 Ampacity 13 Amp (Now KZ) KY
Morphscape Frank Klepacki NV
Impulse Prime zircon NY
Merge Auditory Sculpture OR
We Are SwitchFocus SwitchFocus WI

Theater Album Nominees Artist Location
A Little Princess Ray Koehler, Ed Mintz, Neil Mi CT
Amelia's Journey Amelia's Journey MD
Everything the Traffic Will Allow Klea Blackhurst NY
Naked Boys Singing! Original Cast Recording CA
Oh No Not Emily totally honest productions CA
Open Heart  The Musical   Singer/Songwri Robby Benson CA
The Ginger Rogers Story Music: Bonnie Janofsky, Lyrics: CA
The Hunchback of Notre Dame...A musical  Dennis DeYoung IL

Traditional Folk Album Nominees Artist Location
Chicken Dinners Chuck McCabe CA
Flea Circus Steve Quelet PA
Holding Hands Richard Berman MA
Journal On A Shelf Bill Sheffield GA
Living on Maximum Wage Tom Neilson MA
lost hills Terence Martin NJ
Love, Money & Revenge Shandy Lawson CT
Where The Mangoes Are Kate McDonnell NY

Urban Gospel Album Nominees Artist Location
Changes Gina Green CA
Fire In My Bones Lawrence Smith MO
He Loves Me Belinda FL
Heaven and Earth Acappella TN
Issues Of Life Selah2 GA
just believe yatron CO
Only Way BIG MINISTA KY
Sacrifice Patrice Wilson GA

Vocal Jazz Album Nominees Artist Location
52nd Street Victor Fields CA
Another Place And Time Alan Paul CA
Club Bordeaux Jeff DeHerdt IN
I'm Just The Singer In The Band Artie Kaplan FL
Is It Love? Gail Marten & The Clem Ehoff Tri MD
Marc Courtney Johnson Marc Courtney Johnson IL
Old Fashioned Love Melissa Collard CA
On A San Francisco High Sony Holland CA

World Album Nominees Artist Location
Byzantine Meditation Antaeus CA
Four Higher autorickshaw ON
Indus Red Indus Red OH
lovedeathbeauty Green Man CA
Progressive World Autumn's Child featuring Mark  MO
Provenance Hooshere NY
Walkabout Paul Taylor WY
Wine Dark Sea Bad Haggis CA