Our very own mistress of Bloggie-nominee TexasGigs.com, Cindy Chaffin, informs us that Texas has spoken for 2003:

2003 Rockzillaworld Music Awards

OK. This is Tuesday night. The awards show was Sunday night. I'm just now getting around to posting the winners. That tell you anything?

It is virtually impossible to screw up a show when you've got Jack Ingram, Cooder Graw, Mark David Manders, Max Stalling, Tommy Alverson, Brian Burns, The Domino Kings, Macon Greyson, Owen Temple, John Evans, Jesse Dayton, Rodney Pyeatt, and Doug Burr & the Lonelies in the room, but I damn near managed to. I'll get around to the details later, along with photos, but here are the winners and finalists in this year's awards, in order:

Album of the Year

1. Highs and Lows, Mark David Manders
2. Electric, Jack Ingram
3. One of the Ways, Max Stalling
4. Freedom's Child, Billy Joe Shaver
5. Purple, Cross Canadian Ragweed

Band of the Year

1. Cooder Graw
2. Cross Canadian Ragweed
3. The Beat Up Ford Band
4. The Domino Kings
5. Eleven Hundred Springs

Entertainer of the Year

1. Jack Ingram
2. Pat Green
3. Cross Canadian Ragweed
4. Cooder Graw
5. Mark David Manders

Female Vocalist of the Year

1. Kelly Willis
2. Susan Gibson
3. Kasey Chambers
4. Lucinda Williams
5. Terri Hendrix