2014 International Bluegrass Music nominees and recipients: 2014 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES • The Original Seldom Scene • Neil Rosenberg 2014 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS • Deering Banjo Company • The Delmore Brothers • European Bluegrass Music Association • Hillbilly at Harvard • Bill Keith 2014 International Bluegrass Music Award Nominees ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR • Balsam Range • Blue Highway • Dailey & Vincent • The Gibson Brothers • The Del McCoury Band VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR • Balsam Range • Blue Highway • Dailey & Vincent • The Gibson Brothers • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver INSTRUMENTAL GROUP OF THE YEAR • Balsam Range • Blue Highway • The Boxcars • The Del McCoury Band • Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen SONG OF THE YEAR • “Dear Sister,” Claire Lynch, written by Claire Lynch and Louisa Branscomb • “Grandpa’s Way of Life,“ The Spinney Brothers, written by Mark ‘Brink’ Brinkman • “It’s Just A Road,” The Boxcars, written by William Keith Garrett • “The Game,” Blue Highway, written by Shawn Lane and Barry Bales • “You Took All The Ramblin’ Out of Me,” The Boxcars, written by Jerry Hubbard ALBUM OF THE YEAR • Hall Of Fame Bluegrass, Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins, produced by Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins, Rebel Records • It’s Just A Road, The Boxcars, produced by The Boxcars, Mountain Home • Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe, Noam Pikelny, produced by Gabe Witcher, Compass Records • Streets Of Baltimore, The Del McCoury Band, produced by Del McCoury, McCoury Music • The Game, Blue Highway, produced by Blue Highway, Rounder Records. GOSPEL RECORDED PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR • “Love Does,” Darin and Brooke Aldridge, from Flying, written by Jamie Johnson, Suzanne M. Johnson and Jenee Fleenor, produced by Darin and Brooke Aldridge, Organic Records • “The Day We Learn To Fly,” Volume Five, from The Day We Learn To Fly, written by Stacy Richardson and Leroy Drumm, produced by Volume Five, Mountain Fever Records • “Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus,” Donna Ulisse, from I Am A Child Of God, written by Hazel Marie Houser, produced by Bryan Sutton and Donna Ulisse, Hadley Music Group • “When Sorrows Encompass Me Around,” The Boxcars, from It’s Just A Road, written by Paul Edgar Johnson, produced by The Boxcars, Mountain Home • “Won’t It Be Wonderful There,” Dailey & Vincent, from Brothers Of The Highway, written by Mildred Styles Johnson, produced by Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent, Rounder Records INSTRUMENTAL RECORDED PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR • “Five Miles to Milan,” The Grascals, from When I Get My Pay, written by Danny Roberts, produced by The Grascals, Mountain Home • “Graveyard Fields,” Steep Canyon Rangers, from Tell The Ones I Love, written by Mike Guggino, produced by Larry Campbell, Rounder Records • “Johnny Don’t Get Drunk,” Adam Steffey, from New Primitive, Public Domain, produced by Adam Steffey, Organic Records • “Skillet Head Derailed,” The Boxcars, from It’s Just A Road, written by Ron Stewart, produced by The Boxcars, Mountain Home • “Thank God I’m A Country Boy,” Special Consensus with Buddy Spicher, Michael Cleveland and Alison Brown, from Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver, written by John Martin Sommers, Compass Records RECORDED EVENT OF THE YEAR • “American Pickers,” The Grascals with Dierks Bentley, produced by The Grascals, Pinecastle • “Keepin’ It Between the Lines (Old School),” Peter Rowan with Bobby Osborne, Jesse McReynolds, Ronnie McCoury and Del McCoury, produced by Alison Brown, Compass Records • “Martha White, Lester & Earl,” Terry Baucom with Marty Raybon & Buddy Melton, produced by Terry and Cindy Baucom, John Boy and Billy Records • “Wild Montana Skies,” Special Consensus with Claire Lynch and Rob Ickes, produced by Alison Brown, Compass Records • “Wild Mountain Honey” Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins, produced by Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins, Rebel Records EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR • Detour • Flatt Lonesome • The Spinney Brothers • Town Mountain • Volume Five MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR • Del McCoury • Buddy Melton • Tim O’Brien • Frank Solivan • Dan Tyminski FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR • Dale Ann Bradley • Alison Krauss • Claire Lynch • Amanda Smith • Rhonda Vincent INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS OF THE YEAR BANJO • Jens Kruger • Mike Munford • Noam Pikelny • Sammy Shelor • Ron Stewart BASS • Barry Bales • Mike Bub • Missy Raines • Mark Schatz • Darin Vincent FIDDLE • Jason Carter • Michael Cleveland • Stuart Duncan • Bobby Hicks • Ron Stewart DOBRO • Jerry Douglas • Andy Hall • Rob Ickes • Randy Kohrs • Phil Leadbetter GUITAR • Tony Rice • James Alan Shelton • Kenny Smith • Tim Stafford • Bryan Sutton MANDOLIN • Sam Bush • Sierra Hull • Frank Solivan • Adam Steffey • Chris Thile 2014 International Bluegrass Music Special Award Nominations BLUEGRASS BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR • Kyle Cantrell, Bluegrass Junction, Sirius XM • Steve Fisher, Bluegrass Sessions at Ironwood Stage & Grill (Calgary, AB, Canada) • Chris Jones, Bluegrass Junction, Sirius XM • Al Weekly, KRVN; musicchartsmagazine • Tim White, Song of the Mountains, PBS BLUEGRASS EVENT OF THE YEAR • Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival, Farmers Branch, Texas • Bluegrass Underground, McMinnville, Tennessee • FreshGrass 2013, North Adams, Massachusetts • Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival 2013, Tunbridge, Vermont • Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Festival 2013, Richmond, Minnesota BEST GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR A RECORDED PROJECT • Lou Everhart (designer), Lonely Comes Easy, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, Rebel Records • Josh Gibson, Keesha Dickel (designers), No More Rain, The Steel Wheels • Josh Gibson, Dough Seymour (designers), Echo Sessions, The Stray Birds • Josh Gibson, Scott Simontacchi (designers), Carnival, Nora Jane Struthers, Blue Pig Music • Lynn Weathers (designer), Flying, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Organic Records BEST LINER NOTES FOR A RECORDED PROJECT • David Freeman, Hall of Fame Bluegrass!, Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins, Rebel Records • Fred Jasper and Derek Halsey, The Definitive Doc Watson, Doc Watson, Sugar Hill Records and Vanguard Records • Randy Pitts, Three Chords and the Truth, James King, Rounder Records. • Neil V Rosenberg, Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe, Noam Pikelny, Compass Records • Dave Royko, Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver, Special Consensus & Friends, Compass Records BLUEGRASS PRINT/MEDIA PERSON OF THE YEAR • Derek Halsey, writer for the Herald Dispatch in Huntington, West Virginia,Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, and The Bluegrass Situation. • Chris Jones, writer for Bluegrass Today • John Curtis Goad, writer for Bluegrass Today • Daniel Mullins, writer for Bluegrass Today • Ted Lehmann, blogger for Ted Lehmann’s Bluegrass, Books & Brainstorms BLUEGRASS SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR • Becky Buller • Mark ‘Brink’ Brinkman • Jerry Salley • Tim Stafford Donna Ulisse
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:38:08 +0000
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