NomINEE List of all Past Years
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A. J. PARKER
Radio DJ 2019
A ROWDY FAITH
Americana Artist 2019
AALESHA CARTNER
Promoter 2019
AARON DETHRAGE
Album “The Country Blues” (producer) 2021
ABBY LINDSEY
Video “She Knew Better” (artist) 2021
ADAM CUNNINGHAM
Vocal Group (w/Anna Brinker) 2020
Song “Thinkin’ Bout You” (artist) 2020
ALEX KLINE
Song “World Without Willie” (writer) 2019
ALICE WALKER
Promoter 2021
AMY BURTON
Promoter 2020
AMY GARLAND
Radio DJ (Amy G) 2021
Songwriter 2018
ANDY WALLIS
Music Producer 2021
ANNA BRINKER
Acoustic Act 2018, 2019
Vocal Group (w/Adam Cunningham) 2020
Album “Rain and Whiskey” (artist) 2021
Song “Thinkin’ Bout You” (artist) 2020
Video “The Possum” (artist) 2019
ANTHONY CRAWFORD
Album “Ten Penny Gypsy” (producer) 2018
ARKANSAUCE
Bluegrass Artist 2021
ARLIS ALBRITTON
Video “Pretty Blue View” (director) 2018
ASHLEIGH ROGERS
Female Vocalist 2019, 2020
AUSTIN POOL
Male Vocalist 2019, 2020
AUTUMN McENTIRE
Song “Recycled” (writer) 2021
B. J. TAYLOR
Album “Rain and Whiskey” (producer) 2021
Song “Thinkin’ Bout You” (writer) 2020
Video “Water” (director) 2021
BAILEY HEFLEY
Country Artist 2021
Video “Dust on a Diamond” (artist) 2020
BARRY POYNTER
Music Producer 2018, 2019
Sound Engineer 2018, 2020
BART ANGEL
Drummer 2018, 2021
BARTH GRAYSON
Promoter 2018, 2019
BEEZER WAGLER
Guitar Player 2019
BEN COULTER
Inspirational Artist 2018
BETH BRUMLEY
Promoter 2021
BIG DAN HENTSCHEL
Radio DJ 2021
BIG SHANE THORNTON
Bass Player 2019, 2020, 2021
BILL and LINDA LOVETT
Promoter 2019, 2020, 2021
BILLY DON BURNS
Album “The Country Blues” (artist/producer) 2021
BLANE HOWARD
Entertainer 2020
Male Vocalist 2018, 2019, 2020
Video “Promise to Love Her” (artist) 2019, 2020
BOB ROBBINS
Radio DJ 2018
BONNIE MONTGOMERY
Entertainer 2018, 2019, 2020
Americana Artist 2018, 2019, 2020
Female Vocalist 2018, 2019, 2020
Vocal Group (w/Mark Currey) 2019
Album “Forever” (artist) 2019, 2020
Song “Come Sunday Morning” (artist) 2019
BRANDON BAXTER
Radio DJ 2018
BRANDON CHAMBERS
Video “Promise to Love Her” (director) 2019
BRENDA DENNEY
Inspirational Artist 2021
BREE OGDEN
Young Artist 2018, 2019
Song “Months Now” (artist/writer) 2020
BRENT WHEELER
Video “Water” (director) 2021
BRETT & TERI
Vocal Group 2018
Song “Golden Rule” (artist/writers) 2018
BRICE LONG
Song “Great Again” (writer) 2021
BRYCE ROBERTS
Sound Engineer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
BUDDY CASE
Guitar Player 2020, 2021
BUDDY HYATT
Album “Breaking All the Rules” (producer) 2019
BUTCH SUITT
Bluegrass Artist 2021
Male Vocalist 2020
Album “One More Bridge to Cross” (artist) 2020
CAITLIN DICKERSON
Young Artist 2020
CALEB COBB
Fiddle Player 2018
CALEB RYAN MARTIN
Americana Artist 2018, 2019
Acoustic Act 2018, 2019, 2020
Guitar Player 2019
CAM SHELTON
Video “Momma’s Bible” (artist) 2020
Young Artist 2018
CAREY WILLIAMS
Drummer 2018
CASEY PENN
Songwriter 2020
CHAD RANDALL CROW
Album “Unbroken” (producer) 2019
Song “Back Home in Arkansas” (writer) 2019
Video “Back Home in Arkansas” (director) 2019
CHARLEY SANDADGE
Songwriter 2021
CHARLIE AMMERMAN
Album “The Country Blues” (producer) 2021
CHARLIE WHITE
Guitar Player 2020, 2021
CHRIS BURNS
Album “Forever” (producer) 2019, 2020
CHRIS KING
Promoter 2018
CHRIS SPENCER
Album “The Wildflower Revue” (producer) 2018
CLIFF and SUSAN PROWSE
Song “Months Now” (writers) 2020
Promoter 2020, 2021
CLIFF PROWSE
Fiddle Player 2018
COLE REEVES
Song “Sober Up to Face the Night” (writer) 2019
COLTON EVERHART
Bass Player 2018
CORY JACKSON
Entertainer 2018
Country Artist 2018, 2019, 2020
Male Vocalist 2021
Video “Row by Row” (artist) 2018
THE CREEK ROCKS
Acoustic Act 2021
CURT RYLE
Song “Golden Rule” (writer) 2018
D. J. TAYLOR
Radio DJ 2020, 2021
DANIEL UPTIGROVE
Sound Engineer 2020
DANNY DUNN
Album “Breaking All the Rules” (producer) 2019
DARIAN STRIBLING
Music Producer 2018, 2019, 2020
Sound Engineer 2018, 2019
DARRELL HAGOOD
Steel/Dobro Player 2020
DARREN CRISP
Sound Engineer 2020, 2021
DAVID ADAM BYRNES
Entertainer 2021
Country Artist 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Male Vocalist 2018, 2020, 2021
Album “Neon Town” (artist) 2021
Song “I Can Give You One” (artist/writer) 2020
Video “Pretty Blue View” (artist) 2018
Video “Old School” (artist) 2021
DAVID O’NEAL
Drummer 2019, 2020, 2021
DaWAYNE GEORGE
Bass Player 2018, 2019, 2020
DEL HUGHES
Radio DJ 2018, 2019
DEXTER ROWE
Fiddle Player 2019
DIANE BERRY
Female Vocalist 2018
Vocal Group (w/Joe Wade Smith) 2021
DON PRESLEY
Songwriter 2019, 2020
DON RAMSEY
Promoter 2020
DOOBIE BOWIE
Drummer 2018, 2019
DOYLE McHAFFIE
Sound Engineer 2019
DOUBLE BOOKED
Acoustic Act 2019
DOUG DeFOREST
Album “Carry On” (artist/producer) 2018
Song “I Just Saw a Ghost” (artist/writer) 2018
Songwriter 2018, 2019
Video “Kids from School” (artist) 2018
Bass Player 2019, 2020, 2021
DR. GARY SHIPLEY
Bluegrass Artist 2018
DYLAN RUCKER
Video “Old School” (director) 2021
ERIN DETHERAGE
Guitar Player 2018
ERIN ENDERLIN
Entertainer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Country Artist 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Female Vocalist 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Album “Whiskeytown Crier” (artist) 2018
Album “Faulkner County” (artist) 2020
Song “Ain’t It Just Like a Cowboy” (artist/writer) 2018
Song “World Without Willie” (artist/writer) 2019
Song “Tonight I Don’t Give a Damn” (artist/writer) 2020
Songwriter 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Video “Ain’t It Just Like a Cowboy” (artist) 2018
Video “World Without Willie” (artist) 2019
Video “I Can Be Your Whiskey” (artist) 2020
ERNIE McCOY
Sound Engineer 2019
EVAN HUTCHINGS
Drummer 2020, 2021
FLAP JONES
Radio DJ 2018
THE FLATLAND GOSPEL BAND
Inspirational Artist 2021
FRANKIE CADILLAC
Americana Artist 2018
GARLAND HARRIS
Steel/Dobro Player 2019, 2020
GARRETT JONES
Bass Player 2021
GARRY MURRAY
Fiddle Player 2021
GREG WARD
Country Artist 2018
Male Vocalist 2018
Album “Breaking All the Rules” (artist/producer) 2019
GRACE STORMONT
Americana Artist 2021
Inspirational Artist 2021
Female Vocalist 2021
Acoustic Act 2021
Song “On Your Own” (artist/writer) 2021
Young Artist 2020
GRAND PRARIE
Bluegrass Artist 2018
HALLELUJAH HARMONY QUARTET
Inspirational Artist 2018, 2019
HANNAH BLAYLOCK
Song “Recycled” (writer) 2021
HARLEY SORRELLS
Bass Player 2018
HAYEFIELD
Vocal Group 2021
HEATH SANDERS
Acoustic Act 2019
HEATHER LITTLE
Song “Ain’t It Just Like a Cowboy” (writer) 2018
HEAVEN’S ECHOES
Inspirational Artist 2018, 2019, 2020
HIGHWAY 36
Bluegrass Artist 2019, 2020
INTERSTATE THIRTY
Bluegrass Artist 2019
IRL HEES
Bass Player 2021
J. R. ROGERS
Promoter 2018
J. R. RUNYUN
Radio DJ 2021
J. T. HUBBARD
Song “Thinkin’ Bout You” (writer) 2020
JABE BURGESS
Entertainer 2021
Country Artist 2021
Male Vocalist 2021
Song “Dianne’s Song” (artist/writer) 2021
Video “Everything But Us” (artist) 2021
JAMES HENRY
Song “Thinkin’ Bout You” (writer) 2020
JAMEY JOHNSON
Album “Whiskeytown Crier” (producer) 2018
Album “Faulkner County” (producer) 2020
JASON LEE CAMPBELL
Male Vocalist 2019
Songwriter 2021
JASON LEE HALE
Acoustic Act 2018
JASON MILLER
Music Producer 2019
JASON TEDFORD
Music Producer 2020
JEAN NOLAN
Song “Girl at the Bar” (writer) 2020
JEFF WILLIAMS
Album “The Country Blues” (producer) 2021
JENEE FLEENOR
Fiddle Player 2019, 2020, 2021
JENNA DOOLITTLE
Video “World Without Willie” (director) 2019
JERRY BONE
Bass Player 2019
JERRY ROLLER
Steel/Dobro Player 2018, 2019
JESSI JO DILLON
Song “Tonight I Don’t Give a Damn” (writer) 2020
JIM “MOOSE” BROWN
Album “Whiskeytown Crier” (producer) 2018
Album “Faulkner County” (producer) 2020
Album “Black Cats and Crows” (producer) 2021
Song “Tonight I Don’t Give a Damn” (writer) 2020
JIMMY YOUNG
Bass Player 2018
JOANIE HOWELL
Promoter 2021
JOANNE CASH
Inspirational Artist 2019
Album “Unbroken” (artist) 2019
Song “Back Home in Arkansas” (artist) 2019
Video “Back Home in Arkansas” (artist) 2019
JOE LANE
Video “Arkansas’ Mine” (director) 2018
Video “Own It” (director) 2019
JOE TOUNGE
Song “Say It Again” (writer) 2021
JOE SIKKEMA
Video “Lost Boy” (director) 2021
JOE WADE SMITH
Vocal Group (w/Diane Berry) 2021
JON BLUM
Drummer 2021
JOHN BRUNNER
Steel/Dobro Player 2018
JON CONLEY
Guitar Player 2020, 2021
JON RANEY
Album “Matthew Huff” (producer) 2019
Album “One More Bridge to Cross” (producer) 2020
Music Producer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Sound Engineer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
JONATHON ADAMS
Fiddle Player 2021
JOSH DOTSON
Drummer 2019
JOSH MATHENY
Song “Recycled” (writer) 2021
Steel/Dobro Player 2021
JOSH NEWCOM
Album “Tattooed on My Heart” (artist/producer) 2018
Album “Renegades, Outlaws and Gypsys” (artist/producer) 2020
JOSH YORK
Video “Kids from School” (director) 2018
JULIAN STACEY
Album “The Other Side” (producer) 2020
JUSTIN PARKER
Drummer 2018
JUSTIN WILSON
Song “I Can Give You One” (writer) 2020
THE KEISLER BROTHERS BAND
Bluegrass Artist 2018
Inspirational Artist 2018
Vocal Group 2018
KEITH SYMANOWITZ
Promoter 2019
KELLY BISHOP
Song “Sober Up to Face the Night” (writer) 2019
KELSEY LAMB
Country Artist 2020
Female Vocalist 2020
Song “Girl at the Bar” (artist/writer) 2020
Song “Say It Again” (artist) 2021
Video “Little by Little” (artist) 2020
KEN MURPHY
Radio DJ 2019, 2020
KENNY DRAIN
Album “Horses and Steel” (artist/producer) 2021
Songwriter 2021
KENNY LOGGAINS
Radio DJ 2019
KENT WELLS
Music Producer 2021
KEVIN KING
Video “Row by Row” (director) 2018
Drummer 2018, 2019, 2020
KEVIN SOKOLNICKI
Album “Rain and Whiskey” (producer) 2021
KIM SWINK
Album “The Wildflower Revue” (producer) 2018
THE KINSMEN
Inspirational Artist 2019, 2020
KYLE KELLUMS
Radio DJ 2018
LANCE CARPENTER
Entetainer 2019, 2021
Country Artist 2019, 2020
Male Vocalist 2019, 2020, 2021
Song “Great Again” (artist) 2021
LANCE CURTIS
Young Artist 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
LANCE McDANIEL
Songwriter 2018
LAUREN RICHMOND
Song “Way Back” (artist/writer) 2019
Video “Water” (artist) 2021
LEE STREET LYRICAL
Acoustic Act 2019, 2021
LESLIE SATCHER
Song “World Without Willie” (writer) 2019
LEXY BURKE
Video “She Knew Better” (director) 2021
LILLYANNE McCOOL
Young Artist 2021
LISA LINDSEY & JIM WEAVER
Radio DJ 2020, 2021
LOGEN CHRISTOPHER
Video “Little by Little” (director) 2020
LUKE WILLIAMS
Guitar Player 2018, 2020, 2021
LUTHER ZACHARY
Album “Breaking All the Rules” (producer) 2019
LYDIA DALL
Song “Say It Again” (writer) 2021
MAE ESTES
Female Vocalist 2021
Song “Recycled” (artist/writer) 2021
MALLORY EVERETT
Acoustic Act 2020, 2021
MARK ALAN SPRINGER
Song “Dianne’s Song” (writer) 2021
MARK COLBERT
Sound Engineer 2018
MARK CURREY
Vocal Group (w/Bonnie Montgomery) 2019
Song “Come Sunday Morning” (artist/writer) 2019
Songwriter 2018
MARK MANESS
Video “Momma’s Bible” (director) 2020
MARK MATOSKA
Steel/Dobro Player 2018
MARK WADE
Steel/Dobro Player 2020
MARTY SCARBROUGH
Promoter 2020
MARY HEATHER HICKMAN
Female Vocalist 2019
MARY PARKER
Young Artist 2019
MARY STEENBURGEN
Songwriter 2020
MARYBETH BYRD
Young Artist 2020
MATT ANDERSON
Music Producer 2020
MATT THOMAS
Video “Row by Row” (director) 2018
Bass Player 2018
MATTHEW HUFF
Album “Matthew Huff” (artist) 2019
MAYBE APRIL
Entertainer 2021
Americana Artist 2020, 2021
Vocal Group 2020, 2021
Album “The Other Side” (artist) 2020
MELODIE ROOKER
Female Vocalist 2018
MELODY HART
Female Vocalist 2018
Fiddle Player 2018, 2019, 2020
MELODY POND
Acoustic Act 2018
MICHAEL RINNE
Bass Player 2020, 2021
MICHAEL STEPHEN WINSTON
Acoustic Act 2018
MIKE RANDOLPH
Album “The Country Blues” (producer) 2021
MILO DEERING
Music Producer 2018
MORGAN JOHNSTON
Song “Say It Again” (writer) 2021
MORGAN McGARRAH
Young Artist 2018
NATHAN AGDEPA
Fiddle Player 2020, 2021
NATHANAEL STONE
Music Producer 2019, 2020, 2021
NATIONAL PARK RADIO
Americana Artist 2021
NICK DEVLIN
Guitar Player 2018
NIK & SAM
Vocal Group 2020, 2021
NOAH COFFEY III
Video “Everything But Us” (director) 2021
OPAL AGAFIA
Americana Artist 2018
PAM SETSER
Americana Artist 2021
PAM TILLIS
Video “Lost Boy” (director) 2021
PAMELA HOPKINS
Female Vocalist 2021
PAUL SIKES
Song “I Can Give You One” (writer) 2020
PHIL McGARRAH
Entertainer (PM & Runnin’ on Empty) 2018, 2019
Country Artist (PM & Runin’ on Empty) 2018
Male Vocalist 2018, 2019
Songwriter 2020, 2021
POSEY HILL
Bluegrass Artist 2018
POSSUM TROT
Bluegrass Artist 2020, 2021
QUINN HILL
Drummer 2020, 2021
RANDALL GEORGE
Guitar Player 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
RANDY LOYD
Music Producer 2018
RANDY TERRY
Steel/Dobro Player 2021
RAY BINGHAM
Promoter 2018, 2019
REDMOND KEISLER
Steel/Dobro Player 2018
THE REEVES BROTHERS
Country Artist 2019
Vocal Group 2019
Album “King of Country Music” (artist/producer) 2019
Song “Sober Up to Face the Night” (artist) 2019
THE RENDER SISTERS
Video “Lost Boy” (artist) 2021
Young Artist 2021
RICK CAMPBELL
Guitar Player 2019
RICKY ROOKER
Guitar Player 2018
ROBBY SPRINGFIELD
Steel/Dobro Player 2020, 2021
ROBERT JONES
Steel/Dobro Player 2019, 2021
ROBERT MARTIN
Songwriter 2019
RODGER KING
Steel/Dobro Player 2019
ROG TIPTON
Songwriter 2019, 2020
ROGER WOODS, SR.
Promoter 2018
ROMAN WHITE
Video “Dust on a Diamond” (director) 2020
ROUTE 3
Bluegrass Artist 2020
ROUTE 358
Americana Artist 2018, 2019, 2020
ROY HALE
Inspirational Artist 2020
THE ROVING GAMBLER BAND
Bluegrass Artist 2019, 2020
RUNAWAY PLANET
Bluegrass Artist 2018, 2019
RYAN CEOLA
Sound Engineer 2021
RYAN HARMON
Acoustic Act 2020, 2021
RYAN NOLAN
Video “I Can Be Your Whiskey” (director) 2020
THE SALTY DOGS
Vocal Group 2019, 2020, 2021
SAM ELLIS
Fiddle Player 2020
SARAH CECIL
Young Artist 2019
SARAH JANE NELSON
Female Vocalist 2021
SAVANNAH FREE
Young Artist 2021
SAVANNAH MORRIS
Female Vocalist 2019, 2020
THE SHOTGUNBILLYS
Enterainer 2019, 2020
Vocal Group 2019
SILVER STEPHENS
Album “Breaking All the Rules” (producer) 2019
SPILLWATER DRIVE
Bluegrass Artist 2021
STACY PIXLEY
Fiddle Player 2018
STAFFORD & FRIGO
Radio DJ 2019, 2020
STEPHEN MERLE KILGORE
Album “Breaking All the Rules” (producer) 2019
STEVE DAVIS
Album “Breaking All the Rules” (producer) 2019
STEVE DAVISON
Guitar Player 2019
STEVE JAWN
Video “Promise to Love Her” (director) 2020
STEVE MATLOCK
Steel/Dobro Player 2018, 2019
STEVE WILLIAMS
Song “Dianne’s Song” (writer) 2021
SUPI BOONAPHAI
Video “The Possum” (director) 2019
T. SCOTT VARADY
Drummer 2019, 2020
TACIE AND THE SUNSHINE BAND
Bluegrass Artist 2021
TARA THOMPSON
Song “World Without Willie” (writer) 2019
TAYLOR GOYETTE
Song “Girl at the Bar” (writer) 2020
TEN PENNY GYPSY
Americana Artist 2018, 2019, 2021
Vocal Group 2018, 2019
Album “Ten Penny Gypsy” (artist) 2018
TERRY RHOADES
Bass Player 2019, 2020
THOMAS GRAMUGLIA
Album “The Country Blues” (producer) 2021
TIM CROUCH
Music Producer 2021
Fiddle Player 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
THE TIPTONS
Inspirational Artist 2020, 2021
TYLER KINCH
Male Vocalist 2021
TOMMIIE SUE WILKEY
Song “Fishing in the Sky” (writer) 2018
TRAVIS RYAN SMITH
Male Vocalist 2018
Song “Fishing in the Sky” (artist) 2018
TRENT WILMON
Album “Neon Town” (producer) 2021
TRIPPP
Young Artist 2019, 2020, 2021
TWANG
Bluegrass Artist 2019, 2020
UNITED VOICE
Inspirational Artist 2018, 2019
THE VILLINES TRIO
Inspirational Artist 2021
WARD DAVIS
Country Artist 2021
Album “Black Cats and Crows” (artist) 2021
WAYNE MASSENGALE
Fiddle Player, 2019
WESTERN RED
Radio DJ 2020
WHISTLIN’ DIXIE
Entertainer 2020
THE WHISPERING WILLOWS
Americana Artist 2020
Acoustic Act 2020
Vocal Group 2020
THE WILDFLOWER REVUE
Vocal Group 2018
Album “The Wildflower Revue” (artist) 2018
WOODY WOOD
Sound Engineer 2021
ZAC CHEESMAN
Young Artist 2018
THE ZAC DUNLAP BAND
Entertainer 2018
Vocal Group 2018
Song “Arkansas’ Mine” (artist) (ZD, writer) 2018
Video “Arkansas’ Mine” (artist) 2018
Video “Own It” (artist) 2019
ZANE KING
Steel/Dobro Player 2020, 2021
ZANE AND DONNA KING
Inspirational Artist 2020
RADIO STATION of the YEAR finalists
KABF 88.3 FM “The Vocie of the People” Little Rock 2018
KAMO 94.3 FM “Nash Icon” Rogers 2020
KCYT 96.7 FM “The Coyote” Springdale 2019, 2021
KDXY 104.9 FM “The Fox” Jonesboro 2019, 2021
KDYN 92.7 FM “True Country Radio” Coal Hill 20
KFIN 107.9 FM “The Big” Jonesboro 2018
KHBZ 102.9 FM “The Z” Harrison 2020
KHLS 96.3 FM “Thunder Country” Blytheville 2020
KMAG 99.1 FM “New Country” Fort Smith 2019
KMJX 105.1 FM “The Wolf” Little Rock 2019, 2020
KQUS 97.5 “US 97” Hot Springs 2020, 2021
KSSN 95.7 FM “Arkansas’ Radio Station” Little Rock 2018, 2021
KWCK 99.9 FM “Continous Country” Searcy 2018
KWOZ 103.3 FM “The Country Super Station” Batesville 2019
KZHE 100.5 “KZ-100” Magnolia 2021
PUBLICATION / BLOG / PODCAST of the YEAR finalists
AY Magazine 2018, 2019, 2021
Acoustic Music Talk with Brad Apple 2021
Arkansas Living 2018, 2020
Country Fried 2020
The Daily Citizen 2019
Delta Crossroads 2020
Do South Magazine 2020
If That Ain’t Country 2021
Jonesboro Occasions 2018, 2021
Nightflying 2018, 2019
Ozark Highlands Radio 2020
Oxford American 2018, 2019
The Sun Times 2019
The Vine Brothers Songwriter Series Presents: 2021
VENUE of the YEAR finalists
The Collins Theater (Paragould) 2019, 2020, 2021
George’s Majestic Lounge (Fayetteville) 2018, 2020, 2021
Jimmy Doyle Country (North Little Rock) 2018, 2019, 2021
King’s Live Music (Conway) 2020, 2021
The Little O’ Oprey House (West Fork) 2019
Ozark Folk Center (Mountain View) 2018
Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down Music Theater (Eureka Springs) 2021
Round-up Music Show Theater (Brookland) 2018, 2019, 2020
South on Main (Little Rock) 2019, 2020
White Water Tavern (Little Rock) 2018
Pictured here, the Render Sisters perform during the 2021 event.