RUNNERS-UP: Tony Zavaleta: Michele Solberg, “Thinking of You”; Heyd Fontenot: Ed Hall, “White House Girls”; Bill Balsey: Flaco Jimenez, “Seguro Que Hell Yes”; Wayne Miller: Kelly Willis, “Heaven’s Just a Sin Away”; Sara Hickman, “Joy”; Rocky Schenck: Seed, “Rapture”; Steve Osborne: New Texicans, “Scooby Doo”; John Bruce: Sugar, “Believe What You’re Saying”; Carl Thiel: Black Pearl, “Like a Rocket”

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