Photo Credit: Rique
Jimmy Gaudreau -- the mandolinist who has graced such bands as the Country Gentlemen, Eddie Adcock & the IInd Generation, J. D. Crowe & the New South, the Country Store, Spectrum, the Tony Rice Unit and Chesapeake -- will be inducted into the SPBGMA's Preservation Hall of Greats during the awards show.
Other award categories and their competitors include:
Album of the year: Alecia Nugent, Alecia Nugent; Best Durn Ride, IIIrd Tyme Out; It's My Turn, Michelle Nixon & Drive; Long Way Back Home, the Gibson Brothers; Side by Side, BlueRidge; Songs of the American Spirit, Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen.
Song: "The Best Durn Ride," recorded by IIIrd Tyme Out; "Clinch Mountain Mystery," the Larry Stephenson Band; "Eight More Miles to Louisville," Sam Bush; "I Know Where Love Lives," the Kenny & Amanda Smith Band; "Mountain Song," the Gibson Brothers; "My First Mistake," Alecia Nugent.
Entertaining group: Bluegrass Brothers, Carolina Road, Cherryholmes, Goldwing Express, Nothin' Fancy, IIIrd Tyme Out.
Bluegrass band (overall): Blue Highway, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Lonesome River Band, Mountain Heart, IIIrd Tyme Out, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage.
Vocal group: Blue Highway, BlueRidge, Carolina Road, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Mountain Heart, IIIrd Tyme Out.
Instrumental group: Blue Highway, BlueRidge, J. D. Crowe & the New South, Lonesome River Band, the Del McCoury Band, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage.
Gospel group (traditional): BlueRidge, the Churchmen, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, the Sullivan Family, the Village Singers, Paul Williams & the Victory Trio.
Gospel group (contemporary): Blue Highway, the Churchmen, the Isaacs, the Marksmen, Mountain Heart, NewFound Road.
Male vocalist (traditional): James King, Del McCoury, Don Rigsby, Junior Sisk, Larry Sparks, Paul Williams.
Male vocalist (contemporary): Ronnie Bowman, Larry Cordle, Chris Jones, Russell Moore, Jim Stack, Larry Stephenson.
Female vocalist (traditional): Lorraine Jordan, Lynn Morris, Michelle Nixon, Alecia Nugent, Valerie Smith, Jeanette Williams.
Female vocalist (contemporary): Dale Ann Bradley, Sonya Isaacs, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Amanda Smith, Rhonda Vincent.
Songwriter: Harley Allen, Larry Cordle & Larry Shell, Tom T. Hall & Dixie Hall, Ted Pitney, Chris Stuart, Rhonda Vincent & Terry Herd.
Among the acts scheduled to perform either on the awards show or earlier in the convention are Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, the Lewis Family, Carl Jackson, Cherryholmes, Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, Ronnie Bowman, Alecia Nugent, the James King Band, the Country Gentlemen, the Larry Stephenson Band, the Lynn Morris Band, J.D. Crowe & the New South, Paul Williams & the Victory Trio, Carolina Road, Higher Vision, Michelle Nixon & Drive, the Chapmans, Tim Graves & Cherokee, Nothin' Fancy, Harvest Wind, Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe, Ronnie Reno & the Reno Tradition, the Marksmen, BlueRidge, David Parmley & Continental Divide, Gerald Evans & Paradise, Williams & Clark Expedition, the Kentucky Blue, Bluegrass Brigade, Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain, NewFound Road, the Jeanette Williams Band and Dave Leatherman & Stone County.
