Here are the winners for each category from the 2015 Song Contest. Once again we’d like to congratulate Craig Marshall for winning Songwriter of the Year!
SOCIAL ACTIVISM / PROTEST
1. Sammie Zonana – Youth Goin’ Bad
2. David Lewis Morgan – Share With Me
3. Tonya Tyner – Someone Else
HM Marilyn Rucker Norrod – Earth Has A Fever
HM Kady Rain Williams & Ben Bazzrea – Far From Me
OUTLAWS AND ANGELS
1. Tom Meny – Everyone
2. Tom Cottar – The Devil I Know
3. Peter Boyer – Robbin’ Trains (The Saga of Bill Miner)
HM Mike Eastman – Southern Rock
HM Lisa Fancher – Finders’ Mountain
FOLK AMERICANA
1. Jeff Ellis – The Men In Sago Mine
2. Craig Marshall – Something On Your Mind
3. Tom Meny – Heaven Can Wait
HM Jeff Ellis – Learning How To Live
HM Mike Eastman – Muse Ain’t Got NO Mercy
LYRICS
1. John Thomas Lane – I Dreamed Of You
2. Craig Marshall – Leaving Behind
3. Jeff Hortillosa – Long Gone
SONGS ABOUT PLACES
1. Richard Howard – Fishin’ Hole
2. Amos Ayala III – I Love Texas
3. Mark Herring – What Do You Think It’s Like
LOVE
1. David Lewis Morgan – Would You Love Me
2. Tom Meny – Over You
3. Richard Howard – Photograph
HM Tom Cottar – Beautiful
HM Tom Meny – Say When
HM James E Adams – Gone After Midnight
FAMILY
1. Gregg Yows – Little Black Box
2. Tom Meny – Road
3. Jeanie Sliva – Wonderful
HM Tom Cotter – Beautiful
HM Kenny Spears – Daddy’s Heart
INSPIRATIONAL
1. Robert Marino – Hope
2. Mark Herrring – What Do You Think It’s Like
3. Mike Hyden – What You Make Of Me
HM Tom Cottar – Lacrimosa (Weeping)
HM Wayne Gathright – There Is A Way
BLUES / JAZZ
1. Robert Marino – Love You More
2. Tom Cottar – The Devil I Know
3. Richard Howard – Nightmare
3. Craig Marshall – Wait For The Moon
HM Kady Rain Williams & Ben Bazzrea – And Then Some
POP / ROCK
1. Tom Cottar – The Devil I Know
2. Craig Marshall – Radio Girl
3. Robert Marino – Hope
HM Kady Rain Williams & Ben Bazzrea, Doug Helsel – Infinity
HM Jean Synodinos – End Of The World
HOLIDAYS
1. Craig Marshall – Christmas In Mind
2. Stephen W Fuller – Ornament
3. Marilyn Rucker Norrad – You Are Family
COUNTRY
1. Richard Howard – Fishin’ Hole
2. Craig Marshall – The Only Sound
3. Wayne Gathright – Hit Song
HM Richard Howard – Saint Peters Dilema
HM Richard Howard – Chicken Neck Dog
SINGER SONGWRITER
1. Chase Kroesche – Gone
2. Richard Howard – Learn To Let It Be
3. Sammie Zonana – Hold On
HM David Lewis Morgan – Would You Love Me
HM Mark Herring – What Do You Think It’s Like
HM Gregg Yows – Little Black Box
HM Richard Howard – Isn’t It Simple
HM Richard Howard – Chicken Neck Dog
HM Richard Howard – Fishin’ Hole
BARE BONES
1. Craig Marshall – If It Would Ease Your Mind
2. David Lewis Morgan – Would You Love Me
3. James Adams – Gone After Midnight
HM Tom Meny – Capital Records
HM James Adams – Maybe
