The Jammies are back!
WYCE programmers will vote on the best regional music and present these awards at the 13th annual WYCE Jammie Awards ceremony, Tuesday, February 14th (Valentine's Day!) at The Intersection Lounge.

Album of the Year [ THE BIG JAMMIE]
All albums listed below are eligible

Special Jury Prize
A panel of local critics are being polled in "Best Album" and "Best New Artist" categories

Best Release - SHORT FORM
Alexis - Goldstar
Chain of Lakes - Kind of Quiet
Ella Riot - Love Child
Jacob Bullard - Late July
The MacPodz - The Truth
Jason Norman - Out & Down
Nicholas James Thomasma - Lone Star in the Northern Sky
Paucity - Wait Weight
Pistolbrides - EP
The Water Clocks - The Water Clocks
The Wildfire - The Wildfire

Best Album by a NEW ARTIST
Alexis - Goldstar
Centerville - Middle of Nowhere
Chuck Whiting & His Rowdy Friends - Calamity
The Crane Wives - Safe Ship, Harbored
The FUZZrites - Baby Cakes
Ghost Heart - The Tunnel
Gifts or Creatures - Pilot House
The Little Village - The Little Village
Matt Gabriel - People & Places
Midnight Cattle Callers - Midnight Cattle Callers
Poor Ol' Jim - Poor Ol' Jim
Red Tail Ring - Middlewest Chant and Mountain Shout
Small Houses - North

Best ALTERNATIVE Album
Chris Bathgate - Salt Year
Drunken Barn Dance - Grey Buried
The Fainting Generals - Employee of the Month for Life
Fiona Dickinson - Duende
Ghost Heart - The Tunnel
The Go Rounds - The Go Rounds
GRRRopolis - BOOF
The Mines - Fear is Easy
Papa Vegas - Gravity Wars
Radiator Hospital - Nothin' in My Eyes
Wicker Basket - The Translucent Foil

Best AMERICANA Album
Centerville - Middle of Nowhere
Corn Fed Girls - Papercuts
Creolization - Creolization
Dave Hardin - Miles of Nowhere
Erin Zindle - Scenes from the Fragile, Agile, Avian World
Gifts or Creatures - Pilot House
Joshua Davis - Magnolia Belles
Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys - A Different Tune
Midnight Cattle Callers - Midnight Cattle Callers
Nicholas James & The Bandwagon - Saturday Night
Rick Beerhorst - A Little Piece of the Pie
Poor Ol' Jim - Poor Ol' Jim
Seth & May - New Flower
Small Houses - North
Susan Picking - Wonder in the Wander
Who Hit John? - Great Recession Blues
The Willeys - It's About Time

Best BLUES Album
Afterhours Experience - Volume 1
Greg Nagy - Fell Toward None
Root Doctor featuring Freddie Cunningham - Joy
Shari Kane and Dave Steele - Four Hand Blues
Steve Hilger Band - The River
Thirsty Perch Blues Band - Live at Grand Rapids Harley-Davidson
Working Class Heroes - The Kindness of Strangers

Best JAZZ Album
Max Colley III - My Father's World
Grupo Aye - Guajiro Del Corazon
Kayle Clements - XI
Ron DiSalvio - Happily Evans After
Fred Knapp Trio - Standards & More Vol. 1
Glenn Brown & Intergalactic Spiral - 001

Best FUNK/JAM Album
Back Forty - Play a Little Music and Drink a Little Booze
Ella Riot - Love Child
Four Finger Five - Soul in a Suitcase
Funktion - Step Into It
The MacPodz - The Truth
Ultraviolet Hippopotamus - Square Pegs Round Holes

Best ROOTS Album
Black Jake and the Carnies - Sundry Mayhems
The Boss Mustangs - The Boss Mustangs
Calvin Powers - Six Decades of Country
Chuck Whiting & His Rowdy Friends - Calamity
Creolization - Creolization
The FUZZrites - Baby Cakes
Orpheum Bell - The Old Sisters' Home
The Red Sea Pedestrians - The Electromagnetic Escape
Small Town Son - Burning Good Rubber
Those Eighty Acres - Those Eighty Acres
The Wildfire - The Wildfire

Best ROCK/POP Album
Alexis - Goldstar
Chain of Lakes - Kind of Quiet
The Crane Wives - Safe Ship, Harbored
Home Again - Forgotten Years
Jes Kramer - Nine
The Little Village - The Little Village
Matt Gabriel - People & Places
Nervous But Excited - You Are Here
Susan Buchanan - Mr. Crazy and Other Tales
The Water Clocks - The Water Clocks
Valentiger - Oh, To Know!

Best TRADITIONAL Album
An Dro - Tribe
Folias - Tango & Snow
Shari Kane & Dave Steele - Four Hand Blues
Fred Knapp Trio - Standards & More, Vol. 1
Grupo Aye - Guajiro Del Corazon
Joel Mabus - American Anonymous
Red Tail Ring - Middlewest Chant & Mountain Shout

Outstanding FEMALE Artist
Bethany Foote of Gifts or Creatures - Pilot House
Carmen Maret of Folias - Tango and Snow
Carolyn Koebel and Michele Venegas of An Dro - Tribe
Dee Foster of The Midnight Cattle Callers - The Midnight Cattle Callers
Emilee Petersmark and Kate Pillsbury of The Crane Wives - Safe Ship, Harbored
Erin Zindle - Scenes from the Fragile, Agile, Avian World
Jes Kramer - Nine
Juliet Bennett-Rylah of The Fainting Generals - Employee of the Month for Life
Katie Lee of Orpheum Bell - The Old Sisters' Home
Laurel Premo of Red Tail Ring - Middlewest Chant and Mountain Shout
Lauran Bittinger of Creolization - Creolization Live
Lindsay Lou - A Different Tune
May Erlewine of Seth & May - New Flower
Michelle Chamuel of Ella Riot - Love Child
Rachel Flanigan of Red Sea Pedestrians - The Electromagnetic Escape
Shari Kane - Four Hand Blues
Susan Buchanan - Mr.Crazy and Other Tales

Outstanding MALE Artist
Aaron Klein of Orpheum Bell - The Old Sisters' Home
Andrew Bergeron of Folias - Tango and Snow
Andy Willey and Chris Olsen of The Willeys - It's About Time
Brandon John Foote of Gifts or Creatures - Pilot House
Brent Shirey and Scott Rider of Valentiger - Oh, To Know!
Brian Samuels of Ultraviolet Hippopotamus - Square Pegs Round Holes
Chris Bathgate - Salt Year
Chris Eddy of The Fainting Generals - Employee of the Month for Life
Dan Rickabus of The Crane Wives - Safe Ship, Harbored
Dave Hardin - Miles of Nowhere
David Molinari of Creolization - Creolization Live
Dominic John Davis of Wanda Jackson - The Party Ain't Over; Joshua Davis - Magnolia Belles
Fred Knapp of Fred Knapp Trio - Standards & More, Vol. 1
Fred Willson and James Spalink of An Dro - Tribe
Glenn Brown of Glenn Brown & Intergalactic Spiral - 001
Graham Parsons of The Go-Rounds - The Go-Rounds
Greg Nagy - Fell Toward None
Griff and John of Afterhours Experience - Afterhours Experience, Vol. 1
Ian Gorman of The Red Sea Pedestrians - The Electromagnetic Escape
Ira Cohen of The Red Sea Pedestrians - The Electromagnetic Escape and The Corn Fed Girls - Papercuts
Jeremy Quentin of Small Houses - North
Joel Ferguson of Papa Vegas - Gravity Wars
Joel Mabus - American Anonymous
Joshua Davis - Magnolia Belles
Kyle Rasche of Chain of Lakes - Kind of Quiet
Matthew Forbush and Dan Hurst of Alexis - The Night
Michael Beauchamp of Red Tail Ring - Mountain Shout and Middlewest Chant
Michael Cunningham of grrRoPolis - BOOF
Michael Shimmin of Red Sea Pedestrians, Joshua Davis, and Seth and May
Mickey Catalina of The Boss Mustangs - The Boss Mustangs
Nicholas James Thomasma of Nicholas James & The Bandwagon - Saturday Night
Nick VanderVliet of Who Hit John? - Great Recession Blues
Rick Beerhorst - A Little Piece of the Pie
Rob Froh of The Little Village - The Little Village
Robert Mulligan of Grupo Aye - Guajiro Del Corazon
Sam Cook-Parrott of Radiator Hospital - Nothin' in My Eyes
Seth Bernard of Seth & May - New Flower
Steve Talaga - The Shapeshifter
Tim Broderick of Ghost Heart - The Tunnel
Tommy Schichtel of The FUZZrites - Baby Cakes

SONG OF THE YEAR
"Goldstar" - Alexis
"Kind of Quiet" - Chain of Lakes
"No Silver" - Chris Bathgate
"Safe Ship, Harbored" - The Crane Wives
"Knock Once, Knock Twice, Zydeco" - Creolization
"Employee of the Month for Life" - The Fainting Generals
"No Canticle" - Ghost Heart
"Still Means the World to Me" - Greg Nagy and Jim Alfredson
"Something" - Jes Kramer
"Final Refrain" - Joshua Davis
"Ramblin' Cat" - Midnight Cattle Callers
"Poor Laetitia" - Orpheum Bell
"Keynahore" - Red Sea Pedestrians
"Sugar Wine" - Red Tail Ring
"A Little Piece of the Pie" - Rick Beerhorst
"Dark Eyes" - Root Doctor featuring Freddie Cunningham
"When We Run" - Seth and May
"P.Diddy" - The Little Village
"Giants" - Ultraviolet Hippopotamus
"Oh, to Know!" - Valentiger

Best PRODUCTION/ENGINEERING
Al McAvoy - The Willeys - It's About Time; Creolization - Live
Bill Chrysler and Four Finger Five - Soul in a Suitcase
Brandon John Foote and Seth Bernard - Gifts or Creatures - Pilot House
Dave Hardin & Kurt Ehinger - Dave Hardin - Miles of Nowhere
Ian Gorman - The Red Sea Pedestrians - The Electromagnetic Escape; Seth & May - New Flower; (with The Corn Fed Girls) - Papercuts
Dustin J. Anderson - The Little Village - The Little Village
Fiona Dickinson & Andy Catlin - Fiona Dickinson - Duende
Glenn Brown - Root Doctor - Joy; Susan Buchanan - Mr. Crazy and Other Tales; Glenn Brown and Intergalactic Spiral - Glenn Brown and Intergalactic Spiral
Greg Baxter - Nicholas James and the Bandwagon - Saturday Night
Greg Nagy and Jim Alfredson - Greg Nagy - Fell Toward None
Jim Roll - Chris Bathgate - Salt Year; Erin Zindle - The Fragile, Agile Avian World; Drunken Barn Dance - Grey Buried; Nervous But Excited - You Are Here
Joel Ferguson - Papa Vegas - Gravity Wars
John Stites - Steve Talaga - The Shapeshifter
Joshua Davis & Geoff Michael - Joshua Davis - Magnolia Belles
Justin VanHaven - Chain of Lakes - Kind of Quiet; The Wildfire - The Wildfire
Matt Ten Clay - The Fainting Generals - Employee of the Month for Life; grrRoPolis - BOOF; The Little Village - The Little Village
Laurel Premo (with Red Tail Ring) - Mountain Shout and Middlewest Chant
Midnight Cattle Callers - Midnight Cattle Callers
Rob Savage - Ultraviolet Hippopotamus - Square Pegs Round Holes
Robert Mulligan - Grupo Aye - Guajiro Del Corazon
Dan Rickabus and Ben Zito - The Crane Wives - Safe Ship, Harbored
The Go-Rounds - The Go-Rounds
Tommy Schichtel - Ghost Heart - The Tunnel; The FUZZrites - Baby Cakes; The Boss Mustangs - The Boss Mustangs
Valentiger - Oh, to Know!

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