This week my latest CD, ´Lickskillet Road´ has been selected as one of the top three ´best Roots CDs of 2007´ by the Indie Acoustic Project (check out www.indieacoustic.com). Each year The Indie Acoustic Project generates increased awareness of indie artists and record companies by promoting and recognizing works of innovative, independently produced acoustic music. It´s an honor to have my CD selected as one of the top three since the finalists were selected from hundreds of CDs submitted in over fifteen categories. Winners will be announced by the third week in April! Honestly, I wondered if my CD fits more appropriately in the Alt. Country category. My wife thinks I should have my very own category…..’Malt Country’, since I have a few honky-tonk drinking songs, one of which was nominated for the Best Drinking Song of 2008 by KRFC radio in Fort Collins, Colorado. Country music has certainly sprouted many branches from its roots: From the popularization of cowboy and western music through movies and radio to the development of western swing… and the creation of bluegrass by Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs…and the innovations of “honky tonk” artists including Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams….and early folk and blues artists such as Arlo Guthrie and B.B. King. They all have collectively contributed to developing different strands of roots music, the key instruments being guitar, fiddle, accordion, banjo, and harmonica.

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