Artist: Album (Label) *JR
AoM: Chris Trapper: Technicolor (Starlit) *JR
2. The High Bar Gang: Lost & Undone: A Gospel Bluegrass Companion (True North)
3. Greg Macpherson Band: Fireball (Disintegration)
4. Steve Parkinson & The Stony Lonesome: Kentucky Straight Heartbreak
(Busted Flat)
5. The Cowboy Junkies: The Kennedy Suite (Latent)
6. Gregory Hoskins & Gary Craig: The Map Of Above The Map Of Below (self)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
AoM: Brock Zeman: Rotten Tooth (self) *JR
2. Animal Parts: Six Arms To Hold You (self)
3. The Devil Makes Three: I’m A Stranger Here (New West)
4. Chloe Albert: Dream Catcher (self)
5. Scott Cook: One More Time Around (self)
6. David Myles: In The Nighttime (self)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
AoM: Various Artists: Festival Man: Truly Great Artists Playing Geoff Berner’s Songs (self) *JR
2. Scott Cook: One More Time Around (self)
3. David Myles: In The Nighttime (self)
4. Devon Sproule & Mike O’Neill: Colours (Tin Angel)
5. Ha Ha Tonka: Lessons (Bloodshot)
6. Have Gun, Will Travel: Fiction, Fact, Or Folktale (This Is American)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
1. Scott Nolan & Joanna Miller: North/South (Transistor 66)
2. Mike Lynch: Transitions (self)
3. Jordie Lane: Live At The Wheaty (Vitamin)
4. Dustin Bentall & The Smøkes: You Are An Island (Aporia)
5. Leeroy Stagger: Truth Be Sold (Gold Lake)
6. Lynn Miles: Downpour (self)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
1. Leeroy Stagger: Truth Be Sold (Gold Lake) *JR
2. Matt Epp + The Amorian Assembly: Learning to Lose Control (self)
3. David Francey: So Say We All (Laker/Red House)
4. Ashley Condon: This Great Compromise (Laker)
5. The Good Family: The Good Family Album (Latent)
6. Charilie A’Court: Triumph & Disaster (self)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
Express & Company: Ontario (Seventh Fire) *JR
Corin Raymond: Paper Nickels (self)
New Country Rehab: Ghost Of Your Charms (Kelp)
Gurf Morlix: Finds the Present Tense (self)
Matt Patershuk & The Dirty Plaid Orchestra: Outside The Lights Of Town (Goat Trail)
Jay Aymar: Overtime (self)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
1. Express and Company: Ontario (Seventh Fire) *JR
2. Corin Raymond and The Sundowners: Paper Nickels (self)
3. Mary Gauthier: Live at Blue Rock (CD Baby)
4. Gurf Morlix: Finds the Present Tense (self)
5. The Good Lovelies: Live at Revolution (self)
6. Justin Rutledge: Valleyheart (Outside)
Far & Away 2012
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. Del Barber: Headwaters (Six Shooter)
2. Christina Martin: Sleeping with a Stranger (Come Undone)
3. Matthew Ryan: In The Dusk Of Everything (self)
4. Andrew Combs: Worried Man (self)
5. Rayland Baxter: Feathers & Fishhooks (ATO)
6. Rose Cousins: We Have Made A Spark (Outside)
DEBUT ALBUM (up to 3)
1. Andrew Combs: Worried Man (self)
2. Rayland Baxter: Feathers & Fishhooks (ATO)
3. Melissa Payne: Melissa Payne (Seventh Fire)
VARIOUS ARTISTS/TRIBUTE ALBUM (up to 3)
1. Kin: Songs by Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell (Vanguard)
2. Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us (self)
3. We Walk The Line: A Celebration Of The Music Of Johnny Cash (Legacy)
REISSUE/HISTORIC ALBUM (up to 3)
1. Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage (Borealis)
2. Various: Have Not Been The Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995 (Pheromone)
3. JD McPherson: Signs & Signifiers (Hi-Style/Rounder)
LIVE ALBUM (up to 3)
1. Radney Foster: Del Rio Revisited – Unplugged & Lonesome (Devil’s River)
2. Kasey Anderson And The Honkies: Live Honkies (self)
3. We Walk The Line: A Celebration Of The Music Of Johnny Cash (Legacy)
FEMALE ARTIST (up to 3)
1. Christina Martin
2. Rose Cousins
3. Keri Latimer
MALE ARTIST (up to 3)
1. Del Barber
2. Matthew Ryan
3. Bruce Springsteen
DUO/GROUP (Up to 3)
1. Whitehorse
2. Skydiggers
3. Shovels & Rope
INSTRUMENTALIST (up to 3)
1. Jim Bryson
2. Buddy Miller
3. Gurf Morlix
SONGWRITER (up to 3)
1. Del Barber
2. Christina Martin
3. Matthew Ryan
BEST IN THE INDUSTRY (up to 3)
1. Ken Beattie (Killbeat Music)
2. Mark Logan (Busted Flat)
3. Ellen Stanley (Red House)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
1. Tannis Slimmon: In and Out of Harmony (self) *JR
2. Lee Harvey Osmond: The Folk Sinner (Latent)
3. Barney Bentall: Flesh & Bone (True North)
4. Mary Gauthier: Live At Blue Rock (CD Baby)
5. Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh: The Barn Birds (self)
6. Annie Lou: Grandma’s Rules For Drinking (self)
Artist: Album (Label) *JR
1. Matthew Ryan: In The Dusk Of Everything (self) *JR
2. Jory Nash: Little Pilgrim (self)
3. Melissa Payne: Melissa Payne (Seventh Fire)
4. Kasey Anderson And The Honkies: Let the Bloody Moon Rise (self)
5. Belle Starr: The Burning Of Atlanta (self)
6. Lucy Kaplansky: Reunion (Red House)