RUNNERS-UP: Ray Wylie Hubbard, “Conversation with the Devil”; Kelly Willis, “Heavenbound”; Dynamite Hack, “Boyz-N-the-Hood”; Toni Price, “Comes Love”; Sinis, “Rock Hard”; Natalie Zoe, “Never Too Old to Swing”; Kissinger, “Prettier Than You”; Radney Foster & Abra Moore, “I’m In”; Charlie Robison, “My Hometown”; Monte Montgomery, ” When Will I”; Ginger Mackenzie, ” The Garden of You and I”; Velvet Hammer, ” Come Down”

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