Awards

The List of Winners for the Best CDs of 2010 is here!
Scroll down to see the list! (Winners are printed in red)

The winners were selected from the finalists in each category. The list below represents the best CDs of this year. 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.

Contact information for the artists can be obtained by clicking on the link for the artist or record company, or by going to the artist contact page.

(To view PAST FINALISTS & WINNERS, please go to the ARCHIVES page).

BEST CDs of 2010: WINNERS AND FINALISTS
(Winners are listed in red)

  Artist Title Label


Acoustic Ensemble
Altan
Chapin Sisters
Red Horse
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25th Anniversary
Two
Red Horse

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Compass
Lake Bottom
Red House


Americana
Asleep at the Wheel
Fruition
FS-Chris Pureka           

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It’s a Good Day
Fruition
How I Learned to See in the Dark

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Bismeaux         
Self Produced
Sad Rabbit



Best Lyrics
Kamm & MacDonald
Meg Hutchinson
Kate Isenberg

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From the Fire
The Living Side
Gold Rush Town
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Freewheel
Red House
Three Roads



Celtic
Grada
Old Blind Dogs
Solas

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Natural Angle
Wherever Yet May Be
The Turning Tide

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Compass
Compass
Compass



Instrumental
California Guitar Trio
John McSherry
Peter Ostroushko


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Andromeda
Soma
When the Last Morning Glory Blooms

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Inner Knot
Compass
Red House



Multi -Genre
Ellery
Michael McGoldrick
Heidi Talbot

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This Isn’t Over Yet
Aurora
The Last Star


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Set Adrft
Compass
Compass



Progressive Edge
Citay
El Hijo
Peter Wolf Crier

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Dream Get Together
Madrilena
Inter Be

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Dead Oceans
Acuarela
Jagjaguwar



Rock
Carrie Rodriguez
Railroad Earth
Spring Standards

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Love & Circumstance
Railroad Earth
Would Things Be Different

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9th Street Opus
One Haven
Self Produced


Roots
Karan Casey & John Doyle
Les Tireux d’Roches
Otis Taylor

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Exiles Return
Ce Qu Esse
Clovis People

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Compass
CFM
Telarc



Singer-Songwriter
Ellen Cherry
Ruth Moody
Chuck Pyle
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New Years
The Garden
The Spaces In Between

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Wrong Size Shoes
Red House
Zen Cowboy




World Beat
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
Joan Soriano
Various
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I Speak Fula
El Duque de la Bachata
Listen to the Banned


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Subpop
IASO
Valley Entertainment
Freemuse



World Music
Oswin Chin Behilia
Ali Khattab
Various

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Liber
Al Zarqa
Yoga

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Otrabanda
Nuevos Medios
Putumayo

Click On Links Below To See Past Winners

 

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