ACADEMY OF WESTERN ARTISTS

WILL ROGERS AWARDS

PURE COUNTRY, WESTERN MUSIC, WESTERN SWING

1996-1999

2000-2003

2004-2007

  1996 1997 1998 1999
Entertainer of the Year: R.W. Hampton Trudy Fair Red Steagall Dave Alexander
Rising Star of the Year: Chris Isaacs Brenn Hill Daughters of the Purple Sage Joni Harms
Male
Western Swing Vocal:
Craig Chambers Leon Rausch Leon Rausch Buck Reams
Female
Western Swing Vocal:
Trudy Fair Trudy Fair Dayna Wills Trudy Fair
Western Swing Duo/Group: Tommy Morrell/Time Warp Tophands Tommy Morrell/Time Warp Tophands Dave Alexander/Legends of Western Swing Cowjazz
Western Swing Album: Tribute to Bob Wills, Asleep At the Wheel A Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills, Rausch & Allsup On the Texas Side, Trudy Fair Close To You, Leon Rausch
Western Swing
Song:
Too Many Irons, Reed/Caswell This Old Cowboy Gets the Blues, Michael Fleming Old Town Taos, New Mexico, Cindy Walker Ruidoso, Cindy Walker
Western Swing Instrumental: Rich O'Brian Tommy Allsup Tommy Morrell Bob Boatright
Western Music Male: R.W. Hampton Jeff Gore Don Edwards R.W. Hampton
Western Music Female: Jean Prescott Jean Prescott Lorraine Rawls Belinda Gail
Western Music Group: Hays Co. Gals/Pal Hays Co. Gals/Pal Gillette Brothers New West
Western Music Album: Great American Cowboy, Sons of the San Joaquin Ridin' the Dreamlan Range, R.W. Hampton Prairie Flowers, Jean Prescott Cowboy Songs Four, Michael Martin Murphey
Yodeler: Ranger Doug Janet McBride Jill Jones Shirley Field
Western Music  Song: I'll Be Back In the Fall, Gil Prather Roundup Time On the Pitchfork, Bob Campbell Below the Kinney Rim, Buffham/Fleming Belle Starr, Joni Harms/Wood Newton
Disc Jockey:       Larry Scott
Radio Station       KFDI
Video: :       60 Years of Harmony, Stan Corliss
  2000 2001 2002 2003
Entertainer of the Year: Red Steagall Dan Roberts Joni Harms Curly Musgrave
Rising Star of the Year: Kazzi Shae Kevin Davis Jake Hooker Tammy Gislason
Male
Western Swing Vocal:
Billy Mata Craig Chambers Curtis Potter Craig Chambers
Female
Western Swing Vocal:
Peggy Rains Trudy Fair Robin Deeter Ginny Mac
Western Swing Duo/Group: Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys Texas Mud Time Jumpers Dave Alexander and the legends of Western Swing
Western Swing Album: Playing with a Stacked Deck by Cowjazz West by Southwest"
Craig Chambers
"Jugglin' Cats"
 Tom Morrell
Live At The Station Inn, Time Jumpers
Western Swing
Song:
Faded Love
by
Dayna Wills and Norma Lee
New Mexico"
Joe Merrick
 "Each Time I Hear That Song"
 Dugg Collins
San Antonio Sweetheart,Hugh Cardenas, Harold Hill
Western Swing Instrumentalist: Rich O'Brien Leon Chambers
 
Floyd Domino Cindy Cashdollar
Western Music Male: Dan Roberts Dave Stamey R.W. Hampton Curly Musgrave
Western Music Female: Jeanne Martin Joni Harms Eli Barsi Kip Calahan
Western Music Group: The Texas Trailhands Riders in the Sky Lone Star Chorale Gillette Brothers
Western Music Album: Hangin' Around the Moon
 by
 Royal Wade Kimes
Trail Through Yesterday"
Brenn Hill
 Tapestry of the West
Jean Prescott
Wagon Tracks, Red Steagall
Yodeler: Ken Overcast Sourdough Slim Kacey Musgraves Terri Taylor
Western Music  Song: Silver Spur by Terry Brown Doan's Crossing"
Chuck Milner
 "Every Cowgirl's Dream"
 Joni Harms
 He's A Cowboy -Donna Guffey
Disc Jockey: Mike Gross Hugh McLennan Orin Friesen, Jo Hargrave
Radio Station: KYOX, Comanche, TX   KNTX in Bowie, TX KRLC, Lewiston,ID
Video:       There Ain't Enough Miles-Royal Wade Kimes
2004 2005 2006 2007
Entertainer of the Year: Sons of the San Joaquin Billy Mata    
Rising Star of the Year: Kata Hay Lost Canyon Rangers    
Male
Western Swing Vocal:
Dave Alexander Billy Mata Leon Rausch Billy Mata
Female
Western Swing Vocal:
Christine Mims Melissa Collard Jean Stafford Liz Talley
 
Western Swing Duo/Group: Desperados River Road Boys The Texas Playboys Light Crust Doughboys
Western Swing Album: Sweet Sentimental Dreams-Ginny Mac Dave Alexander, Western Boogie Segovia 1862, So In Love With You Dan T. Chambers "Alive And Swingin' "
Western Swing
Song:
We're Proud DubYa's From Texas, Cindy Walker/Shelly Lee Alley, Jr Curtis Potter-Every Time I Hear A Fiddle Play Joe Paul Nichols, Eleven Eighteen Nadine Lane Starla Queen "Show Me "
 
Western Swing Instrumental: Bobby Flores Tommy Nash Johnny Gimble Bobby Koefer
 
Western Music Male: Brenn Hill
 
Bill Barwick R.W. Hampton
 
Doug Moreland
Western Music Female: Belinda Gail Juni Fisher
 
Eli Barsi Patty Clayton
Western Music Group: Sisters of the Silver Sage Wylie & The Wild West Riders In The Sky The Quebe Sisters
Western Music Album: Let's Put Western Back In Country-Joni Harms Kip Calahan, Dust Devil Angel Red Steagall, The Wind, The Wire & The Rail Lynn Anderson "Cowgirl"
 
Yodeler: Wylie Gustafson Wylie Gustafson Janet McBride Chelsea Beck
Western Music  Song: Paint Her Real-Donnie Blanz/Melinda Bailey Jean Prescott-Fair Blows The Wind Jack Hannah, Where The Very Same Cottonwoods Grow "I Rode In As A Stranger"
Liz Anderson
Radio Station of the Year Region I KKUS, Tyler, TX KSEY Seymour, Texas KWKH-Shreveport, LA Eddie Kilroy XM Radio
Radio Station of the Year Region II KBEC, Waxahachie, TX
 
KRRM, Grants Pass, Oregon WGOC, Bristol, TN
 
Dallas McCord KNND Radio
Radio Station of the Year Region III KBHB, Sturgis, SD KKNG, Oklahoma City, OK    
Disc Jockey of the Year Region I Joe Baker
 
Enola Gay
 
Dallas Wayne, KHYI, Richardson, TX  
Disc Jockey of the Year Region II Johnny Western Mark Miller Dugg Collins, KFDI, Wichita, KS
 
 
Disc Jockey of the Year Region III Tommy Tucker Tom Perryman Mike Carr, KCWM, Hondo, TX
 
 
Disc Jockey Region IV   Tracy Pitcox    
Disc Jockey Western Region   Andy Nelson    
Disc Jockey Major Market   Lew Jones    
John A Lomax Award O J Sikes Jack & Voleta Hummel    
Pure Country Male     Dale Watson Mile Siler
 
 Pure Country Female     Sunny Sweeney Leona Williams
 
Pure Country Duo/Group:     The Cornell Hurd Band Lucky Tomblin Band
Pure Country Song:       Joe Babcock "Dixie Cannonball"
 
Pure Country Album:     Dale Watson, Whiskey Or God ..Frankie Miller "The Family Man"
 
Record Producer:     Justin Trevino, TX Tracy Pitcox
Record Label:     Patriot Studio, Chris Booher, TX
 
Yellow Rose Records
Lifetime Achievement:     Hank Thompson, Roanoke, TX  
Cindy Walker Award :       Jerry Max Lane