Awards

The List of *WINNERS* & Finalists for the Best CDs of 2008 is here!
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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.

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

BEST CDs of 2008:WINNERS & FINALISTS
(Winners are listed in red)

	Artist	Title		Label
"1861"	Acoustic Ensemble Etran Finatawa Moreland & Arbuckle Toumast	******** Desert Crossroads 1861 Ishumar		******** Riverboat/World Music Northern Blues Real World//Ryko
"Strange Invitation"	Alt Country Biscuit Burners South Austin Jug Band Chris Stuart	******** Firey Mountain Music Strange Invitation Crooked Man		******** Indidog Self-Produced Backcountry
"Letters I Never Plan To Mail"	Alt Rock Bittersweets Nadas Wadirum	******** Goodnight, San Francisco Ghosts Inside These Halls Letter I Never Plan to Mail		******** Compass Authentic Self-Produced
"Roses & Tears"	Celtic Capercaillie Lunasa Solas	******** Roses &Tears The Story So Far For Love & Laughter		******** Vertical/Compass Compass Compass
"Hello Troll"	Instrumental Debashish Bhattacharya Helge Lien Trio Aidan O’Rourke	******** Calcutta Chronicles Hello Troll Sirius		******** World Music Network Ozella Music Compass
"World Upside Down"	Latin Debajo del Agua Various Various	******** The World Upside Down Bachata Roja Café Cubano		******** Self-produced IASO Putumayo
"Northern Echoes"	Lyrics Chumbawamba Jez Lowe Rupert Wates	******** The Boy Bands Have Won Northern Echoes Dear Life		******** Trade Root Tantobie Bite
"Songs For The New Frontier"	Multi - Genre Ryan Cavanaugh Blair Douglas Various	******** Songs for the New Frontier Stay Strong Klezmer Revolution		******** Self-Produced Ridge World Music Network
"Cipher"	Progressive Edge Horse Feathers Nethers Slim Cessna's Auto Club	******** House with No Home What the Wind Will Never Tell Cipher		******** KillRockStars Izniz Alternative Tentacles
"Crazy Ever After"	Rock Leroy Bell Mark Geary The Rescues	******** A Change Is Coming Opium Crazy Ever After		******** Martez Sonablast Red Wind
"Grand & Green River"	Roots Ray Bonneville Melonie Cannon Kara Grainger	******** Goin by Feel And the Wheels Turn Grand & Green River		******** Red House  Rural Rhythm  Craving
"Come Up Full"	Songwriter: Female Kyler England Meg Hutchinson Brooke Miller	******** Simple Machine Come Up Full You Can See Everything		******** Gypsy Rock Red House Hickory
"Leavetaking"	Songwriter: Male Peter Bradley Adams Archie Fisher Reg Meuross	******** Leave Taking Windward Away Edge of the World		******** Sarathan Red House Hatsongs
"African Party"	World Music: Africa Various Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze Various	******** African Party Sira Rough Guide to the Music of Mali		******** Putumayo ObliqSound World Music Network
"One"	World Music: Eurasia Riikka Jamshied Sharifi Various	******** Kaenkukuntayot One Acoustic Arabia		******** Aito Ceres Putumayo