Subject: Country Music Aywards ;-)
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 18:32:24 -0400

Roy Atkinson passed along this thing he found in the May 27th issue of
The New Yorker ("Notebook" by Michael Crawford)
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* Best Single Expressing the Soul of the '90's Rebel: "I'll Be Blowin' 
  Out of Memphis by Midnight If I Can Finish My Taxes And Find a Sitter" 
  by Cassy Cotton

* Best Single Defining a Man's Need for a Strong Father-Son Relationship:
  "Son, I'm Here To Be the Daddy My Daddy Wasn't Here To Be" by Merlin Mattis

* Catchiest Self-Pitying Single: "I'd Be Dancing With You In Tulsa But God
  Wants Me In This Wheelchair" by Papa Dale Duggins

* Best Single Inadvertently Capturing the Cluelessness of Men: "Here's 
  Hoping You Find Me When You Find What You Don't Know What You're Lookin'
  For" by Sonny Stubbs

* Best New Artist Name (Male): Taylor Tyler Tripp

* Best "Back Off!" Single of the Year: "My Heart, It Ain't Broken, So Don't
  Be Tryin' To Fix It" by Hazy Hazlitt

* Best Single Capturing a Man's Need to Cheat and then Lie About It:
  "Ten Years I Was Faithful, One Night I Was Me" by Purvis Shepherd

* Mopiest Album of 1996: "Gettin' Tired Of Gettin' Fired" by Randy Bland