Drive By Truckers win Indie Acoustic Award

The Indie Acoustic Project announced the winners of its "Best CDs of 2004" Awards. The winners were selected from among the 3 finalists in each category:



Acoustic Ensemble: Clumsy Lovers After the Flood (Nettwork)
Alternative Rock: Kyler A Flower Grows in Stone (Deep South)
Americana: Acoustic Syndicate The Long Way Round (Sugar Hill)
Celtic: Grada The Landing Step (Compass)
Instrumental: Creaking Tree String Quartet Side Two (Self-Produced)
Best Lyrics: Darrell Scott Theatre of the Unheard (Full Light)
Multi-Genre: Chris Thile Deceiver (Sugar Hill)
Rock: Drive By Truckers The Dirty South (New West)
Roots: Tony Furtado These Chains (Funzalo)
Singer-Songwriter Female: Vienna Teng Warm Strangers (Virt / Deep South)
Singer-Songwriter Male: Garrin Benfield Where Joy Kills Sorrow (Zack Songs)
World Music-Europe, Asia, and the Pacific: Various South Pacific Islands (Putumayo)
World Music-Latin: Candido & Graciela Inolvidable (Chesky)

The Indie Acoustic Project is dedicated to giving recognition to outstanding works of innovative acoustic (or mainly acoustic) music.