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Thursday January 08, 2009, 8:45 AM
Regional indie music awards move to online voting for two categories

John A. Lacko / Special to the Gazette
The local bluegrass band Who Hit John? also picked up two Jammie nominations. The band members are, from left, Nathan Dannison, Kris Kehn, Ian Gorman, Mick Vliet and Dan McCartney.

GRAND RAPIDS -- The organizers of Jammies X, or the 10th annual Jammie Awards, the regional music awards put on by Grand Rapids-based independent radio station WYCE-FM 88.1, have shaken things up a bit this year.

For the first time, there will be People's Choice awards for best local album of the year and best new local artist as decided by online votes. All you have to do is go to www.grcmc.org/radio/ and enter your e-mail address. You'll then be sent to the entire list of artists that have been nominated. Several Kalamazoo artists have been nominated.

The Jammies also expanded to 15 categories, which will be voted on by more than 100 volunteer programmers and staff members at WYCE prior to the Feb. 17 ceremony.

The online voting began Jan. 1 and will finish at midnight Jan. 31, so get out and support local musicians. It's real easy.

You can also see the full list of all the nominees below. The winners will be announced at Jammies X on Feb. 17 at the Intersection in Grand Rapids.

Local bands picking up People's Choice nominations

Best local album of the year
-- Allison Downey, "Across the Sea"
-- Crossroads Blues Band, "Slippery"
-- Dooley Noted, "Edible Audibles"
-- Greensky Bluegrass, "Five Interstates"
-- Jam-Lab, "Gain"
-- J.R. Clark, "Getaway"
-- Joel Mabus, "Retold"
-- Kalamazoo Community Rhythm Project
-- The Mickeys, "Walk Along"
-- Phil Barry, "Between the Carolinas"
-- Who Hit John?, "Old Gray Road"



Local BLUES Album of the Year
CLARK~JR Getaway
CROSSROADS BLUES BAND Slippery
ESPARZA~TOMAS Live @ Naya
FARRIS~HOWARD Catching the Dream
HILGER~STEVE Live in Eastown
LANDIS~SHEILA & RICK MATLE Blues in the Night
MEASURED CHAOS Live
MR. B Joybox
MUDDY V AND THE HOUSE ROCKERS Muddy V and the House Rockers
ROOT DOCTOR Live at the Cadillac ClubÂ

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``There is one guy who is out there who is really following my footsteps,'' he said. ``J.R. Clark. If you're standing outside and you hear the music, you would think it's me. He's pretty much that good.''

He heard Clark while standing outside waiting to play one of his many shows at Wonderful's.

``I heard this music and I thought, they're playing one of my records. And then he started singing, and I thought, wait a minute ... .''

Clark didn't sound very surprised when told that Lil' Ed sees him as his musical heir.

``We're pretty good buddies,'' Clark said. ``Years ago I saw him open for George Thorogood, and I've been hooked since.''

Clark began playing 15 years ago, learning guitar from Lil' Ed albums. After meeting Lil' Ed, he learned from him personally.

``Every time I see him play, it just fires me up,'' Clark said.]]> http://jrcblues.com/news.html#14 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 jrcblues.com - JR Clark Band - News