Congratulations to all the Finalists in the TSA Songwriter Salute Awards below (in alphabetical order)!

ALT COUNTRY

Built Like Us  …  Felicity Dowd
Can’t Bring Back the Dead … Billie Copeland, Peta Cherae Peters
Fly to You … Patrick Kenny, Kelsey Berrington
The Cattle Truck … Jo Caseley
When She Gets Home … Blake Dantier, Michael Carpenter

 

COUNTRY BALLAD

John And Judy Martin Commemorative Award

California … Ian Burns
Don’t Say When … Blake Dantier
My Turn Now … Della Harris, Clive Young
Red Wine and Blue … Emily Hatton
Take The Wheel … Craig Lloyd, David Carter & Merelyn Carter

 

COUNTRY ROCK

Follow my Road … Lily Grace and Chase Flanders
Out Of My Hands … Willow .
Right Down To The Wire … Lindsay Waddington, Allan Caswell
Truth Juice … Della Harris, Clive Young
Wish You Were My Beer … Blake Dantier

TRADITIONAL

Eric Watson Commemorative Award

Big Bandy … Virginia Hermel
Crumbling Stones … Lola Brinton, Graham Howle
The Apron … Vickiree Melouney, Angus Gill
The Legend of The Lamp … Matt Scullion
This Little Town … Roger Corbett

 

BLUEGRASS

Not That Kind of Girl … Anita Spring, Allan Caswell, Lindsay Waddington
Sitting Pretty … Amy Ryan, M Stripp, J Mize, McCaw, L Milner
Stranger in My Home … Dave Diprose
Until This Song Ends … Lindsay Waddington, Allan Caswell
When Your Lies Come Down … David Javier, Sandy Louise

 

BUSH BALLAD

Bev Daniel Commemorative Award

In the Warrego … Andrew Ryan
Long Way Round … Peter Coad
The Dinner Tree … Terry Bennetts
The Goobragandra Packhorse Man … Brian Stitt
Waler … Peter Monaghan

 

 COMEDY/NOVELTY

Geoff Mack Commemorative Award

I Don’t Drink Anymore … Lindsay Waddington, Allan Caswell
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em … Justin Standley
Modern Day Country Song … Mark Rigney
Santa’s In My Family … Shelly Jones, Lester Treuer
Wrong … Blake Dantier

 

COUNTRY BLUES

A Little Faith … Cathy Dobson
Cheat on Me … Cathy Dobson
Empty … Shelly Jones, Lester Treuer
Keep the Rhythm in Me … Andy Penkow
Must Have Been the Wine … Della Harris, Clive Young

 

GOSPEL/SPIRITUAL

Britton Morrison Commemorative Award

God Knows … Clayton Saunders
Hear The Angels … Shaza Butler
Judgement Day … Peter McDonald
Love Me … Rae Leigh
Train Of Love … Stan Lenz

 

LOCAL HEROES

1942 … Peter Coad, V. Hermel
Free Again … Karen Law
Gallipoli … Peter Monaghan
Stories in my Blood … Amy Ryan, M McCaw, M Stripp, G Carfoot & L Milner
The Goobragandra Packhorse Man … Brian Stitt

 

LYRICS ONLY

Ghosts of Cobb and Co … Helen Harvey
Not Gone … Allan West
Saddle There For Me … Christine Eccleston, Luke Austen
Ten Acres out of Town … Kevin Pye
When the Brumbies come to Water … Kevin Pye

 

NEW SONGWRITER

Burning … Sari Abbott
Consider Me Gone … Chloe Styler
Handle It … Felicity Dowd
Let It All Roll Out … Billie-Jo Porter, Rachael Kennedy
My Side of Town … Paul Ricketts

 

NOVICE

Garry Koehler Commemorative Award

A Country Song … Brian Murray
One for Sorrow … Allan West, Ren Kyder
One Horse … AllanWest, Ren Kyder
Our Fallen Heroes … Brian Murray, Jeanne Murray
The Fencing Line … Mark Griffin

 

YOUTH

John P Toomey Commemorative Award

Gem Gem … Amy Ryan
Hard Working Man (Needs a Beer) … Mackenzie Lee Hall
I’m Off To Tamworth … Jake Murdoch
Like a Bull Rider … Mackenzie Lee Hall
You and I … Dennis Comino