RUNNERS-UP: Merel Brigante: “Run” by Harris & Ryden Band; “Live at the Satellite Lounge” by Honeybrowne; Lloyd Maines: “Home” by the Dixie Chicks; “The Ring” by Terri Hendrix; Carl Thiel: “Stereo” by Vallejo, “6’s & 7’s” by Speer; Andrew McKee: “Songs of Ireland” by the Brobdingnagian Bards; Shelley King: The Highway; Eric Johnson: Souvenir; Gurf Morlix: “Fishin’ in the Muddy”; Gurf Morlix; Kenny Tweedy: “Night Out” by Cluan; Brian Beattie: “Don’t Fall In Love …” Okkervil River; J.B. Slimp: “Friends Like These” by the Jon Barry Project; Kevin Fowler and Daren Fleming, “High on the Hog”; Isola: “Don’t Walk Run”; Stuart Sullivan: “Back Porch Mary”; Mark Younger-Smith: “Where Ever You Are” by Sundowner
This article appears in March 14 • 2003.