TSA 2022 AWARDS PRESENTATION

2022 AWARDS RESULTS

Novice – The Garry Koehler Commemorative Award
“Our Land” by Andrew Ryan & Amy Ryan

Youth – The John P Toomey Commemorative Award
“Miss You” by Felicity Dowd

Traditional – The Eric Watson Commemorative Award for Traditional Song
“Pilgrimage” by Kevin Sullivan

Lyrics (only) 
”The Heart You Break the Hardest” by Susan Muranty

Gospel/Spiritual 
”Lean On Me” by Tony Smith

Bluegrass
”Always Kiss Her Goodnight” by Justin Landers

Bush Ballad – The Bev Daniel Commemorative Award
”The Things I Left Behind” by Peter Simpson

Country Ballad – The John and Jenny Martin Commemorative Award
”Fairytale” by Wendy Wood

Alt Country
”Redemption is Real” by Susan Dorhahy

Comedy Novelty – The Geoff Mac Commemorative Award
”Welcome To Australia” by Terry Bennetts

Country Blues
”Ocean Fever” by Geoff Williams

Country Rock
”Sixteen Wishes” by Lily Grace and Bella MacKenzie

Local Heroes – The Johnny Ashcroft Commemorative Award
”Youngie” by Lindsay Waddington and Alan Caswell

TSA New Songwriter of the Year Award
”Make It Slow” by Emily Hatton

Tex Morton Award
Bob Kirschner

TSA Songmaker Award
Pete Denahy

TSA Song of the Year
”Sixteen Wishes” by Lily Grace and Bella MacKenzie

2021 Finalists – 2022 Awards

ALT COUNTRY – TSA Song of the Year

• Redemption is Real – Susan Dorahy
• Stop Time with a Kiss – Susan Muranty and Sven Tydeman
• Tell You – Susan Dorahy
• Upside ­­­- Billie-Jo Porter and Kylie Nebauer
• With Love and Surrender – Damien Hosken

BLUEGRASS -TSA Song of the Year

• Always Kiss Her Goodnight – Justin Landers
• Coming Home – Virginia Hermel
• If you Knew What you Know – Shelly Jones and Lester Truer
• Precious Gem – David Javier
• Light As a Feather- Kylie Adams Collier

BUSH BALLAD – The Bev Daniel Commemorative Award 

• Born to the Saddle – Graham Rodger
• Feral Muster – Graham Rodger
• He Loved Horses More than People – Lindsay Waddington Allan Caswell
• Not Without You Old Mate – Terry Bennetts and Keith Lethridge
• The Things I left behind- Peter Simpson
• Two Old Friends – Pat Thompson

COMEDY NOVELTY- The Geoff Mack Commemorative Award

• Are they Ever Leaving Home – Lloyd Back
• Christmas Cheer – Russell Neal, Stafford Watts
• I’m Getting Off the World ( at the next Stop) – Virginia Hermel, Jim Hermel
• She’ll Be Right – Stan Lenz , Glenny Palmer
• Welcome to Australia – Terry Bennetts

COUNTRY BALLAD – The John and Jenny Martin Commemorative Award

• Cowgirl Angel – Ross Webb   Christine Eccleston
• There is a Part of Me- Damien Hosken
• Fairytale – Wendy Wood
• Make It Slow – Emily Hatton
• Sometimes the Juice Just Ain’t Worth the Squeeze –  Norman Crew and  Greg Piggot

COUNTRY BLUES – TSA Song of the Year

• Found my Home – Luice Tiger O’Connor
• How Many Times – Andy Penkow, Kathleen Stewart, Kalesti Butler, David Carter
• Midnight Goodbye – Lucie Tiger O’Connor
• Nigel – Alex Varlow
• Ocean Fever – Geoff Williams

COUNTRY ROCK- TSA Song of the Year

• Broken Lines – Noleen Smith
• Come Back for More – Ben Ransom
• Mess Around – Emily Hatton
• Midnight Train – Aaron Jurd
• Sixteen Wishes – Lily  Grace and Bella Mackenzie

GOSPEL SPIRITUAL – TSA Song of The Year

• Flowers Still Blooming in Spring – Steven Sherrah and Andrew Bertram
• Lean on Me – Tony Smith
• Thank you for being my Friend – Virginia Hermel
• Until I Reach my Goal – Pat Thompson
• Worst of Sinners – Jacques Gentil

LOCAL HEROES – The Johnny Ashcroft Commemorative Award

• Fire and Flood – Blaise Beach
• Only One Came Home – Graeme Howie
• Tooth in the Cog – Bindi Blacher
• What A Mother Taught Me – Lily Grace
• Youngie – Lindsay Waddington and Allan Caswell

 LYRICS ONLY

• Black Dog – Julie Richards
• Save a Saddle there for Me – Christine Eccleston
• The Heart you Break the Hardest -Susan Muranty
• The Private’s Mate – Kevin Pye
• The Wave Hill Spur – Helen Harvey
• Yarri of Gundagai – Graham Scobie

TSA NEW SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD

• Feels Like Us – Billie Jo Porter and Andrew Blyth
• FiFo Man – Steve Roberts
• Make it Slow – Emily Hatton
• Miss You – Felicity Dowd
• Sixteen Wishes – Lily Grace and Bella Mackenzie

NOVICE  – The Garry Koheler Commemorative Award

• It’s a Long Way There – Sue Oppy
• Mates – Gary Bewley, Glenn Bewley
• Our Land – Andrew Ryan
• Song for Beth – Daria Koutsoukos
• You Didn’t Have to Be – Sarah Nicholls

TRADITIONAL – The Eric Watson Commemorative  Award

• Just Get Better – Lindsay Waddington, Allan Caswell
• Land of Acacia- Virginia Hermel
• Pilgrimage – Kevin Sullivan
•  The Corner Store – Justin Landers
• The Ghost of This Guitar – Tony Smith

YOUTH – The John P. Toomey Commemorative Award

• Loves in Drought – Mackenzie Lee Hall
• Miss You – Felicity Dowd
• Out of This Town – Shyanne Irwin
• Skipped a Beat – Grace Mae Gladwin
• Sixteen Wishes – Lily Grace, Bella Mackenzie

2021 Semi-finalists

Alt-Country

• Best Song I Never Wrote – Simon Drew
• Bush Rocket ( The Troopy song) – Mark Thomann
• Can’t Afford Happiness – Patrick Kenny
• Can’t Stop – Craig Campbell
• Collided – Kate Appleyard and Ben Mawdsley
• Chinese Whispers- Cass Hopetoun and Blake Dantier
• Dodge Ute – Callan Kennedy
• Don’t go Causing Trouble – Spike Flynn
• Driving Through – Paul Marsh, Kate Ord
• Do Me Right- Lucie Tiger
• Eureka – John Littrich and Neil McCann
• Found my Home – Lucie Tiger
• Feels Like Us- Billie-Jo Porter and Andrew Blyth
• Handle It – Felicity Dowd
• King of Cups – Piper Rodrigues and Melody Moko
• Let it All Roll Out – Billie-Jo Porter and Rachel Kennedy
• Misty Mountains – Ian Burns and Lachlan Bryan
• Music and Love – Julianne Jessop
• My Heart Goes With You – Paula Standing, R Mc Cormack, G Jeffreys, L Bradley, N Watson
• Our Land – Andrew Ryan and Amy Ryan
• Out of This Town – Shyanne Irwin
• Please Don’t Go- Virginia Hermel
• Protected Love – Andy Penkow and Rip Van Park
• Redemption is Real – Susan Dorahy
• Redhead – Keely Sliwka and Katrina Burgoyne
• Rosepetals and Gunpowder – Benny Allen
• Shag on a Rock – Samantha Hollier and S. Wiles
• She’s Born of the West -Spike Flynn
• Stop Time with a Kiss – Susan Muranty and Sven Tydeman
• Tell You – Susan Dorahy
• The Music Goes On – Grace Mae Gladwin
• Upside ­­­- Billie-Jo Porter and Kylie Nebauer
• Who I Might Be – Thomas Libreri and Tessa Libreri
• You and me and A Bottle of Whiskey – Simone Sordello and Andrew Swift
• You Go Another Round – Spike Flynn
• With Love and Surrender – Damien Hosken

Bluegrass

Bush Ballad – Bev Daniel Commemorative Award

• A Bushmans Friend- Kate Stroud and Tess Stroud
• Big Water- Ken “Chainsaw” Lindsay & A Gill
• Biscuits From Home – Lloyd Clarke
• Born to the Saddle – Graham Rodger
• Feral Muster – Graham Rodger
• He Loved Horses More than People – Lindsay Waddington & Allan Caswell
• It’s Always the Son that Gets the Farm – Lindsay Waddington & Allan Caswell
• Not Without You Old Mate – Terry Bennetts and Keith Lethridge
• Ode to Stan Coster – Alan Thompson
• Old Mate – Marcus Cassells
• Since the Drovings Gone – Leon Argent
• Sixty Six Days in an Open Boat – Paul Marsh
• Tanami Man – Graham Rodger
• The Ballad of Fischer’s Ghost – Ronnie Williams
• The Great Australian Merino – Lloyd Back
• The Old Guard – Benny Allen and Michael Carpenter
• The Sydney Jilleroo – Shaza Leigh and Ken Knuth
• The Tie ( when a bushman dies) – Steve Montgomery
• The Things I Left behind – Peter Simpson
• Tough Country Breeds Tough Men – Graham Rodger
• Two Old Friends – Pat Thompson
• Women of The Bush – Nerida Cuddy

Comedy Novelty – Geoff Mack Commemorative Award

• Are they Ever Leaving Home – Lloyd Back
• Bad Hair Day –  Roxanne Kiely . Allan Caswell
• Beer I bought for Dave – Tracy Coster
• Christmas Cheer – Russell Neal, Stafford Watts
• Downsizing – Eric Read
• Down the Barrell of a Glass – Katie Stroud
• I’m Getting Off the World ( at the next Stop) – Virginia Hermel, Jim Hermel
•  In The Neck – Thomas Libreri, Tessa Libreri
• January in Australia – Lily Peters, Roger Corbett
• Just Don’t Mention Christmas – Kevin Sullivan
• My Brother Johnny – Alan Gilmour, Shirl Llewellyn
• My New Heart – Patricia Thompson
• One Eyed Bob – Floyd Black
• Spend the Kids’ Inheritance – Kevin Sullivan
• She’ll Be Right – Stan Lenz
• Three Grey Hairs -Shelly Jones, Lester Truer
• Welcome to Australia – Terry Bennetts
•  When Murray Met Darling – Stan Lenz
• Whiz Bang – Ray Clarke
• Wombakangalah – Don Cowling

Country Ballad – John & Jenny Martin Commemorative Award

• All Together- Sue Baker
• A River Somewhere – Lloyd Clarke & Allan Caswell
• Better Days – Spike Flynn
• Because I Love You – Rhonnie Tant
• Bribie Island Breeze – Eric Read
• Change My Course – Spike Flynn
• Changing My Mind – Anita Spring, Allan Caswell, Lindsay Waddington
• Cowgirl Angel – Ross Webb & Christine Eccleston
• Dance beneath the Willow – Rhonnie Tant
• Dreams Don’t Come True – Tracey Coster
• Endlessly – Ken Dinsdale
• Every Time I turn Around He’s Not There – Norman Crew and Greg Piggot
• Fairytale – Wendy Wood
• Feels Like Home – Rebecca Nethery & David Carter
• Grandpa, Will you Sing me That Song Once More? –  Graeme Howie
• Heading for the Bush – Katie Stroud
• I Don’t Love You Anymore – Norman Crew, D Reisch & J Wright
• If I Could – Merilyn Steele
• If You Knew Me at All – Bradley Christmas
• Let’s Pretend – Alice Benfer and Sam Hawksley
• Lend a Hand – Peter Salata
• Little Flower – Hannah May Bartle
• Love You When I Can  –  Lindsay Waddington and Allan Caswell
• Make It Slow – Emily Hatton
• My Father’s Son –  Peter Simpson
• My Favourite Place –  Ken Lindsay
• Never Too Old – Dave Hughes and Cheree Martin
• Old Boots –  Lloyd Back
• Our Little Love –  Justin Landers
• Our Land –  Katie Stroud
• Proud to be an ANZAC –  Jacinta Read
• Right here Right Now –  Vanessa Delaine
• Real Men Don’t Cry – Craig Woodward
• She Came from Texas – Norman Crew & D Heytman
• Sometimes I Wonder –  Mackenzie Lee Hall and Bill Chambers
• Sometimes the Juice Just Ain’t Worth the Squeeze –  Norman Crew and  Greg Piggot
• Smoke and Mirrors – Tony Smith
• Tennessee – Lily Grace  & Jake Davey
• The Photograph – Patricia Thornell & Mark Thornell
• There is a Part of me – Damien Hosken
• The Horses Stay Behind – Kerrie Gambley
• The End of It –  Norman Crew & G Piggot
• The Widow McGhee –  Katie Stroud and Tess Stroud
• Things Ain’t Always –  Merilyn Steele
• What Can I Say – Alice Benfer and Sam Hawksley
• When I Say I Love You – Wendy Wood
• We Lost a Generation – Katie Stroud and Tess Stroud
• When I’m With You –  Lloyd Back

Country Blues

• Ain’t Easy to Do – Vanessa Delaine
• Better Days – Samantha Hollier and M. Wiles
• Don’t Give me The Blues – Vanessa Delaine
• Falling Rain Blues – Spike Flyn
• Found my Home – Luice Tiger O’Connor
• Got The Bayou Blues Instead – Chris Murphy
• How Many Times – Andy Penkow, Kathleen Stewart, Kalesti Butler, David Carter
• I’m Your Man – Chris Murphy
• Lachlan River Blues – Spike Flynn
• Lend a Hand – Sarah Rozekrans
• Midnight Goodbye – Lucie Tiger O’Connor
• Mr Cakes got the Blues – Jake Murdoch
• Nigel – Alex Varlow
• No Regrets – Vanessa Delaine and Lola Brinton
• Ocean Fever – Geoff Williams
• Proceed with Caution – Shelly Jones and Lester Truer
• Redbank Creek – Rick Bamford
• Storm’s Gonna Come – Simon Drew
• Sugar Daddy Blues – Mark Thomann
• The Bushman is Me – Nicholas  Nicholas
• Whiskey Blues – Aaron Jurd

Country Rock

• Against The Tide – Kevin Sullivan
• A Horse and His Girl – Mi Lehnen
• Brave new World -Ben Ransom
• Broken Lines – Noleen Smith
• Clickety Clack – Virginia Hermel
• Come Back for More – Ben Ransom
• Country Cool – Larry Cann
• Country I Left Behind – Blaise Beach
• Everything Has Changed – Kate Appleyard and Ben Mawdsley
• Friday Partay – Simon Drew
• Heartbreak Express – Lindsay Waddington, Allen Caswell
• Hey Cowboy – Ian Burns
• Hey Mama – Craig Campbell
• Hit it on the Run -Tony Smith
• I Can’t Drink you off my Mind – Justin Landers
• I’ll Run to You – Briana Dinsdale
• Last Dime Whiskey and Motorbike – Tony DeSantis
• Life’s Too Short – Simon Drew
• Looking for Love – Craig Woodward
• Made up Guy – Lily Peters, Bella Mackenzie
• Mess Around – Emily Hatton
• Midnight Train – Aaron Jurd
• Never Tasted Dirt – Alice Benfer, Brendan Smoother
• Not Afraid of the Dark – Sally Anne Whitten, James Craswell
• Release – Willow ( G Wilson)
• She Drinks out of a Bottle – Simon Drew
• Sixteen Wishes – Lily Peters
• Smoke and Mirrors – Emily Hatton
• Smoking – Tony DeSantis
• Teardrop in my Eye – Don Cowling
• Torn In Two – Kylie Gale
• The Two of us Meet – Lily Peters, Chaise Flanders
• Two Old Mates – Ross Webb, Christine Eccleston
• Walking the Wall – Michael Lehnen
• We Got it All -Simon Drew

Gospel Spiritual

• Flowers Still Blooming in Spring – Steven Sherrah and Andrew Bertram
• Further Down the Road – John Littrich, Neil McCann
• In Memory of My Dad – Alan Gilmour, Shirl Llewellyn
• Lean on Me – Tony Smith
• Light as a Feather – Kylie Adams Collier
• My Time of Need – Thomas Libreri, Tessa Libreri
• Never Never Leave my Lord – Peter Mc Donald
• Now I Know the Truth – Steven Sherrah and Andrew Bertram
• Oh, My Heavenly Father – William Langhorn
• Sweet Loretta – Alan Gilmour, Shirl Lleywellyn
• Take me Back to that Little Country Church – Graeme Howie
• Thank you for being my Friend – Virginia Hermel
• The Greatest Gift is Love – Peter Mc Donald
• Until I Reach my Goal – Pat Thompson
• Worst of Sinners – Jacques Gentil

Local Heroes – Johnny Ashcroft Commemorative Award

• Brown Land – Kathryn Turdak
• Bushman of Cobargo – Paul Marsh, Joanne Craigie
• Cutting Gems out of Stone – Shaza Leigh
• Fire and Flood – Blaise Beach
• Johnny Dozer Driver – Graham Scobie
• Lennie – Ronnie Williams
• Lost at Sea – Brianna Dinsdale, Ken Dinsdale, Ashlyn Dinsdale
• Only One Came Home – Graeme Howie
• Our Old Mate Chad – Floyd Black
• Pilgrimage – Kevin Sullivan
• Stick Shed – Joanne Craigie
• That’s the Way it Works – Billy Bridge
• The Horses Stay Behind – Kerrie Gambley
• The Love of Droving Cattle – Andrew Ryan
• The Whip Rang Out – William Langhorn
• Till The Cows Come Home – Marie Ewing
• Tooth in the Cog – Bindi Blacher
• We Remember – Brendan Smith, Folks Like Us
• What A Mother Taught Me – Lily Grace
• When Smoky Dawson Came to Town – Floyd Black
• Why Did Ya Run Ron – Andrew Ryan
• Youngie – Lindsay Waddington and Allan Caswell

Lyrics (only)

• A Place I Call Home -Tayla Clavarino
• Barbie Doll – Cass Hopetoun and Blake Dantier
• Black Dog – Julie Richards
• Bush Blood In my Veins – Helen Harvey
• Can’t Find the Words – Cait Barrett
• Dance Hall Romance – Jonathan Lewis
• Dress of Blue – Michelle Morgan
• Fifty Years – Ray Clarke
• Hardworking Dog – Diana Davis, Grahame Hore
• Loved for Life – Cait Barrett
• Lest We Forget – Johnny Conway
• Lost Kisses – Michelle Morgan
• Minnamurra – Jillian Seymour
• Mirror Mirror – Andrea Singleton
• No Mortgage on my Soul – Susan Muranty
• Perhaps Tomorrow – Kevin Pye
• Santa Kiss and Angel for me -Glen Naylor
• Save a Saddle there for Me – Christine Eccleston
• Side by Side – Christine Eccleston
• Time to go Home – Jim Brown, Peter Denahy
• The Heart you Break the Hardest -Susan Muranty
• The Private’s Wife – Kevin Pye
• The Wave Hill Spur – Helen Harvey
• The Winter Chill- Brooke Seabrook
• Unknown- Kate Appleyard and Ben Mawdsley
• Watch your Step – Piper Rodrigues, Hayley Marsten
• When It Rains – Merilyn Steele
• Where the Eight Mile Post is Standing – Kevin Pye
• Yarri of Gundagai – Graham Scobie

Novice – Gary Koehler Commemorative Award

• All this Playing Around – Dusty Mann
• Auburn Sun – Owen Smith
• Box of Tissues – Dusty Mann
• Dancing with the Devil – Amanda Liston
• Diamantina Dreaming – Andrew Ryan
• In the Blink of an Eye – Gary Bewley & Glen Bewley
• I Wonder If – John Wright
• In the Right Place at the Right Time – Gary Bewley & Glen Bewley
• It’s a Long Way There – Sue Oppy
• Lullaby of I Love You – Clint Brittan
• Mates – Gary Bewley & Glen  Bewley
• On a Paroo Night – Gary Bewley & Glen  Bewley
• Our Land – Andrew Ryan
• Over Sunset and Sunrise – Bruce Barclay
• Roads That Go Between – Andrew Ryan
• Song for Beth – Daria Koutsoukos
• Sugar and Salt – John Wright
• The Memories – Blarsha Wallmsley
• This Country Makes Music – Mark Thomann
• Thinking Out Aloud – Dusty Mann
• The Bushman is Me – Nicholas Nicholas
• Where I want to Be – Andrew Ryan
• When Cars Were Made of Wood – John Wright
• You Always Wanted Him – John Wright
• You Didn’t Have to Be – Sarah Nicholls
• Yours – Luke Lennon

Traditional – Eric Watson Commemorative Award

• A Cultivated Man – Graham Scobie
• Cossack – Steve Roberts
• Cyclone – Katie Stroud, Tess Stroud
• Flag at a Bull – Simon Drew
• Fearless Like a Magpie – Kylie Adams-Collier
• Fields of Gold – Simon Drew
• Guiding Star – Peter Simpson
• High Country Snows – Kevin Sullivan, Bill Chambers
• How Much More – Lloyd Back
• I Love You Did You Know That – Rebecca Nethery, Mary V I Harrison
• Just Get Better – Lindsay Waddington, Allan Caswell
• Kangarooby Road – Felicity Dowd
• Karumba at Sundown – Stets Strohfeld
• Light as a Feather – Kylie Adams- Collier
• Land of Acacia -Virginia Hermel
• Never Got the Chance – Steve Roberts
• Pattie’s Place -Tracy Coster, Steve Newton
• Pilgrimage – Kevin Sullivan
• Spring – Nerida Cuddy
• Take me Home – John Littrich & Neil McCann
• The Corner Store – Justin Landers
• The Ghost of This Guitar – Tony Smith
• The Old Home’s Gone – Shaza Leigh & Billy Wye
• The Pub at Grabben Gullen – Eric Read
• The Breaking of The Drought – Katie Stroud & Tess Stroud
• This is Our Land – Thomas Libreri & Tessa Libreri
• Women of the Outback – Ian Wilkinson
• Woodhill Mountain – John Littrich, Neil McCann

Youth – John P Toomey Commemorative Award

• Bottle is Empty – Mackenzie Lee Hall
• Coming Home – Hilary Swan
• Going Slow – Jake Murdoch
• Handle It – Felicity Dowd
• It’s Just a House – Shyanne Irwin
• Kangarooby Road – Felicity Dowd
• Lose You Now – Dennis Comino
• Loves in Drought – Mackenzie Lee Hall
• Miss You – Felicity Dowd
• Out of This Town – Shyanne Irwin
• Porcelain – Felicity Dowd
• Skipped a Beat – Grace Mae Gladwin
• Sixteen Wishes – Lily Peters, Bella Mackenzie
• The Music Goes On – Grace Mae Gladwin
• The Two of us meet – Lily Peters, Chaise Flanders

TSA New Songwriter of the Year

• Can’t Afford Happiness – Patrick Kenny
• Dodge Ute – Callan Kennedy
• Feels Like Us – Billie Jo Porter and Andrew Blyth
• FiFo Man – Steve Roberts
• I Don’t Want this to End – Shyanne Irwin
• Make it Slow – Emily Hatton
• Midnight Train – Anita Spring
• Miss You – Felicity Dowd
• Nanna’s House – Dave Hughes and Cheree Martin
• Release – Willow (G.Wilson)
• Sing a Song for Me – Benny Allen
• Sixteen Wishes – Lily Grace
• The Horses Stay Behind (one Last Ride) – Kerrie Gambley
• Torn in Two – Kylie Gale
• Upside Down – Kylie Gale and Billie-Jo Porter
• Why did I Fall for You – Briana Dinsdale, Ken Dinsdale
• You and I – Sally Pottinger