2021 Philby Song Award Winners

 


1. Daddy’s Wheels—Eric Gnezda (Single) [Best Song][Best Story Song][Best Song Almost Guaranteed to Make You Cry][Best Non-Fiction Story Song][Best Song to Hear in the Middle of the Night Waking Up With the TV On, Then Fall Back to Sleep Yet Still Remember to Find It the Next Day Song]

2. If I—Tracy Kash (Fierce)[Best Pop Song][Best Hooky Song][Best Latin Flavored Rhythm Song][Best Pop/Rock Vocal]

3. Southland—Lindsay Lou (Southland)[Best Sultry Song][Best Americana Vocal]
4. The Things That Matter—Matthew French (M French) (Sweet Love)[Best Song About Peace][Second Best Song Almost Guaranteed to Make You Cry]
5. Beautiful—Karyn Oliver (A List of Names)[Best Female Vocal]
6. Hope (NOT the Correct Version) —Diamonds in the Rust (The Whole Half)[Best Americana Vocal Group Song][Third Best Song Almost Guaranteed to Make You Cry]
7. Don’t Think—Jillian Rae (I Can’t Be Who You Want Me to Be)[Best Rock Song][Second Best Sultry Song][Best Female Rock Vocal][Best Atmospheric Song]
8. Wrong Side of Right—Tosha Owens (Wrong Side of Right)[Best R&B Song][Best Female R&B Vocal][Best Short Drum Hook] 
9. I Will Make My Nest High Up—Erin Zindle (Scenes from the Fragile Agile Avian World)[Best Haunting Melody][Best Lyrics]
10. The Dreams That Are Waiting for Us—Amy Petty (The Darkness of Birds)[Best Rock/Pop Vocal]
11. Please Don’t Tell Me How to Dance—Cindy Ruenes (Please Don’t Tell Me How to Dance)[Best Attitude Song]
12. Some Better Days—Jeff Scott with Smoke Jones and Duane Allen Harlick (Single)[Best Jazz Song][Best Jazz Collaboration][Best Sax Solo: Skip Pruitt]
13. Lucky Rocks—Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles (Love’s Middle Name)[Best Chunky Guitar Song]
14. Boss Hog—ShwizZ (ShwizZ II)[Best Instrumental][Best Jazz/Rock Song]
15. Foolish Heart—Wendy Webb (Moon on Havana)[Best Jazz Vocal][Best Moody Song]
16. Dangerous Love—Angela Perley (4:30)[Best Yearning Rock Vocal]
17. Open My Eyes—Becki Digregorio (Seven Worthies…of the Bamboo Grove)[Best Cover Song]
18. One Month in the Hole—Bobby Pennock (Single)[Best Pandemic Song][Best Psychedelic Song][Best Harmonies][Best Theremin Solo][Best Little Noise That Shifts From One Ear to the Other][Best Headphone Song]  
19. It’s Happening Here—J.C. And The Disciples (Single)[Best Classic Rock Song]
20. Fire and Flame—The Whiskey Charmers (Lost on the Range)
21. Better Than Gold (NOT the correct version) —Erica Blinn (Better Than Gold)
22. Trust Somebody—Billy Brandt and The Sugarees (Riverside)
23. Born Again—Judy Banker (Buffalo Motel)[Best Daytime Open Highway Driving Song]
24. Learn—Nina and The Buffalo Riders (For the Dirt)[Best Nighttime Open Highway Driving Song]
25. Give It Away Again—M.J. Bishop (Give It Away Again)[Best Yearning Americana Vocal]
26. If You Only Knew—Bill Edwards (Sounds Like Love)[Best Sad Song That Is Actually Happy][Best Waltz]
27. Always in Between—Tom Curless and The 46% (Almost Ready for the Future)[Best Back-up Vocal Hook with Gibberish Words][Best Power Pop Song]
28. Real Love—Wolf B. Reuter (Hour of the Wolf)[Best Beatles Cover That Sounds Better Than the Original]
29. The Power of Love—Lucrecia Lopez Sanz (Single)[Best Soundtrack Cover Song]
30. Control—The Cordial Sins (Only Humans)
31. North Country—Sam Corbin (North Country)[Best Heading to Northern Michigan Song]
32. Every Day—Mental Health Day (You Could Be Anywhere)[Best Song That Almost Dies in the Middle But Builds Up to a Good Finish]   
33. Bad Babe, Losing Touch—The Claudettes (High Times in the Dark)[Best Keyboards: Johnny Iguana][Best Tambourine][Best Echo]
34. Angels Fly—Johnny Irion (Driving Friend)
35. Save All My Cryin’ (For Sunday Afternoon)—Vicky Emerson (Wake Me Up When the Wind Dies Down)
36. Starcrossed Losers—The Fratellis (In Your Own Sweet Time)[Best Song About Romeo and Juliet][Best String Arrangement][Best Falsetto Vocal]
37. The Hewry Highwayman—Bill Grogan’s Goat (Third Eye)[Best Celtic Song]
38. Dichotomy of Disbelief—Latvian Radio [Best Trumpet]
39. The Lucky One—Mark Jewett (The Lucky One)[Best Pedal Steel]
40. How Will You Go—Sugar Snow (Woodface Reimagined)
41. Outside of This Town—Christone “Kingfish” Ingram (Kingfish)[Best Blues Song]
42. Make Up Your Mind—Heathcote Hill (Fight Another Day)
43. Solo—Arnold Mitchem (Single)
44. Life Out of Control—Linden Thoburn (Scarecrow)[Best Cello: Sara Gibson] 
45. No Way to Live—Mike Ward (The Darkness and The Light)
46. Jesus on the Dash—Vegas Strip Kings (Jackpot!)[Best Tex-Mex Song][Best Accordion]
47. Stuck in a Rhyme—Cool King Chris (Paradigm Shift)
48. Turn My Heat On—Scott Greeson with Warriors, Zombies, and Other Joedai Pilgrims (Collaboration)
49. Too Cold to Cry—Lindsay Beaver (Tough As Love)[Best Rockabilly Song]
50. Time Flies By—Gary Browe (Red Sky Remembers)
51. Never Let You Go—Biltmore (Revolutions and Romantics)
52. Long Gone—Karen Nash (Love and Justice)
53. Split Decision—Popular Creeps (Single)
54. This Morning—Ben Levin with Bob Corritore (Before Me)[Best Blues Instrumental]]Best Piano Instrumental]
55. Keep Diggin’—The Stone Souls (The Stone Souls)[Best Slide Guitar]
56. Built to Break—Mike Galbraith (Here, Elsewhere)
57. Lightspeed—Steve Leaf and The Ex-Pats (Lightspeed)]Best Jam Song]
58. Snake Wine—Transit Method (We Won’t Get Out of Here Alive)[Best Hard Rock Song]
59. Show Them It’s True—The Simon Kennedy Band (Make Up Your Mind)
60. Object Permanence—Sydney Sprague (Maybe I Will See You at the End of the World)[Best New Artist]
61. Time Goes By—Territorial Chant (Territorial Chant 6)[Best Prog Ballad]
62. Power Thru—Rick Mummey with Warriors, Zombies, and Other Joedai Pilgrims (Collaboration)
63. I Feel Like My Old Self (NOT the correct version)—Nora Jane Struthers (Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words)
64. Quarantine Dream—Scott Martin (Quarantine Dream)
65. Stuck in Orbit—Xposed 4Heads (Ultra Sound)
66. Little Miss Night and Day—Boz Scaggs (Out of the Blues)
67. Peculiar—The Slackers (Peculiar)[Best Ska/Punk Song]
68. Pirates—Joanna and The Jaywalkers (The Open Sea Before Me)
69. River of Tears—Upstairs Party (Upstairs Party)[Best Twin Lead Guitar Riff]
70. Graveyard Train—Wild Ponies (Radiant)
71. Lonesome City—Dave Karchner (Lonesome Town)
72. My Mother Gave the World to Me—Jubilant Bridge [Best Song About a Mother]
73. Turn Up Your TV—Michael Snyder-Barker (Tales of Whoa!)
74. The Original Swing—Seth Bernard (Eggtones for Fun)
75. Analise—Inland Isle (Time Has Changed Us)
76. Black Patch—Kelsey Waldon (White Lines/White Noise)
77. Sweet Marie—Strawberry Heritage (Light Magic)
78. Go to Girl—Travis Bowlin (Secondus)
79. Hard Times—Sublunar Minds (Into a Future Bright and Beautiful)
80. The Warning—Robin Tucker (The Way Out)
81. Then There Was You—Steve Sterner and Sundown (November Rain)[Best Folk Song]
82. Consolation Prize—Jeremy Porter and The Tucos with Jennifer Westwood (Don’t Worry, It’s Not Contagious)
83. Long Way Back—Terri Binion (The Day After the Night Before)
84. Talk to Me—Makoto (Spirit of the Island)[Best Island Jazz Instrumental]
85. Radar Contact—TR3 featuring Tim Reynolds (The Sea Versus the Mountain)[Best Prog/Jazz Instrumental]
86. House of the Rising Sun—Johnny Mastro and Mama’s Boys (Never Trust the Living)
87. Here Comes Love—Robert Stark (Robert Stark)
88. Did It All—Gogol Bordello (Seekers and Finders)[Best World Song]
89. All We Ever Have Is Now—Valerie JanLois (No Drop of Love Is Ever Wasted)
90. Storyline—Trio of Awesuhm (Cowboys and Aliens)
91. Nuthin’ to Me—Suzi Moon (Call the Shots)[Best Punk Song]
92. When She Smiles (NOT the Correct version)—Kevin Lockhart and Bill Bosler (Waterbound)[Best Hammered Dulcimer-Bill Bosler]
93. Berlin—Karolina Rose (Invicta)
94. Escape RouteJordi (Single)
95. Got Me Glued—The Transparent Tones (Lovely)
96. Summer in a Bottle—Marvin Etzioni (Single)
97. I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying —Tom Faia and Kate Miller (Harry’s Place)
98. On and On—Tin Sparrow (Shoelace Ring)
99. Be a Good Girl—CJ Ramone (American Beauty)
100. Train to Nowhere—Hannah’s Field (Revolutionary Soldiers)[Best Hippie Vibe Song]