Artist:

Payne County Line 2004 Female Vocalist Of The Year:
Elizabeth Turner, Slowvein

Payne County Line 2004 Male Vocalist Of The Year:
Mike McClure; Mike McClure Band

Payne County Line 2004 Female Acoustic Artist Of The Year:
Amanda Cunningham

Payne County Line 2004 Male Acoustic Artist Of The Year:
Jake Moffat

Payne County Line 2004 New Artist Of The Year:
Bobby Wayne; Badwater

Payne County Line 2004 Singer/Songwriter Of The Year:
Jake Moffat

Payne County Line 2004 Entertainer Of The Year:
Stoney LaRue

Musicians:

Payne County Line 2004 Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year:
Travis Linville; The Burtschi Brothers

Payne County Line 2004 Bassist Of The Year:
Casey Twist; Badwater Band

Payne County Line 2004 Conga Player Of The Year:
Kevin "KevMo" Miller

Payne County Line 2004 Drummer Of The Year:
Zane Finton; The Red Lights

Payne County Line 2004 Electric Guitarist Of The Year:
Jay Faulkner; South 40 Band

Payne County Line 2004 Harmonica Player Of The Year:
Bill "Watermelon Slim" Homans

Payne County Line 2004 Keyboard player Of The Year:
Mike Reynolds; Tucker Road Band

Payne County Line 2004 Mandolin Player Of The Year:
John Cooper; Red Dirt Rangers

Payne County Line 2004 Steel Guitarist Of The Year:
Curtis White; TJ McFarland & The Revolvers

Payne County Line 2004 Fiddler Of The Year:
Randy Crouch

Production:

Payne County Line 2004 Live Album Of The Year:
“Live at Billy Bob’s” - Jason Boland & The Stragglers

Payne County Line 2004 New Album Of The Year:
“Far From Everything” - No Justice

Payne County Line 2004 New Video Of The Year:
“Austin” - Brandon Jenkins

Payne County Line 2004 Video Of The Year:
“17” - Cross Canadian Ragweed

Payne County Line 2004 Single Of The Year:
“Mexico or Crazy” - Jason Boland and The Stragglers

Payne County Line 2004 Rock Album Of The Year:
“What a World” - Slowvein

Bands:

Payne County Line 2004 Pop Rock Band Of The Year:
The All-American Rejects

Payne County Line 2004 Red Dirt Band Of The Year:
The Great Divide

Payne County Line 2004 Rock Band Of The Year:
12 Pearls

Payne County Line 2004 Southern Rock Band Of The Year:
Slowvein

Payne County Line 2004 Blues Artist/Band Of The Year:
Scott Keeton Band

Payne County Line 2004 Acoustic Band Of The Year:
4th Order

Payne County Line 2004 Country Artist/Band Of The Year:
Branden Hart

Payne County Line 2004 New Band Of The Year:
Mike McClure Band

Payne County Line 2004 Band Of The Year:
Cross Canadian Ragweed

Venues:

Payne County Line 2004 Concert Hall Of The Year:
Wormy Dog Concert Hall, Stillwater

Payne County Line 2004 Listening Venue Of The Year:
The Blue Door, Oklahoma City

Payne County Line 2004 Get Away Venue For Live Music Of The Year:
Roxie's, Tahlequah

Payne County Line 2004 Outdoor Concert Venue For Live Music Of The Year:
Tumbleweeds, Stillwater

Payne County Line 2004 Most Unique Venue For Live Music Of The Year:
The Farm, Goltry

Payne County Line 2004 Ballroom For Live Music Of The Year:
Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa

Payne County Line 2004 Venue Security Staff Of The Year:
Wormy Dog Saloon, Bricktown

Payne County Line 2004 Venue Wait Staff Of The Year:
JC Cowboys, Weatherford

Payne County Line 2004 New Venue For Live Music Of The Year:
Wormy Dog Saloon, Bricktown

Payne County Line 2004 Venue For Live Music, Of The Year:
Red Dirt Cafe, Norman

Support:

Payne County Line 2004 Music All Genre Fan Of The Year:
Ragan Parkerson, Stillwater, OK.

Payne County Line 2004 Multi-Media Music-Related Articles Of The Year:
Mr. Terry Smith, KFOR-TV, Channel 4, Oklahoma City, OK.

Payne County Line 2004 Hard-Copy Publication Of The Year:
Stillwater Scene, Stillwater, OK.

Payne County Line 2004 Graphic Design Studio Of The Year:
Tornado Alley Graphics, Stillwater, OK.

Payne County Line 2004 Supporting Website Of The Year:
www.oklahomarock.com

Payne County Line 2004 Red Dirt DJ Of The Year:
Eric Wayne, KVOO, Tulsa, OK.

Payne County Line 2004 Sound Man Of The Year:
Brian Kinzie

Payne County Line 2004 Friend of Red Dirt Music Of The Year:
Red Wilhelm, Stillwater

Texas Awards:

Payne County Line 2004 Texas Artist Of The Year:
Bleu Edmondson

Payne County Line 2004 Texas Band Of The Year:
Texas Jack

Payne County Line 2004 Texas Singer/Songwriter Of The Year:
Scott Copeland

Payne County Line 2004 Texas Supporting Web Site All Genre Of The Year:
www.texasgigs.com.

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Our congratulations to each:

Our congratulations to each and every winner. Again, the above recognition comes from the fans of Oklahoma Music, and confirmed by Payne County Line! They voted, we listened!
Here is wishing all the winners the best in 2004. May it be your best year ever! As Oklahoman's, each of you make us very proud!

One can find links to the artist on numerous places throughout our web site, or go to PCL Artist/Bands Links.

The real winners, the Fans!

On a closing note... The real winners are YOU, the fans. I am constantly blown away by your support, work, love, caring, etc. for those bands you love to watch. It is unbelievable sometimes the depth and width of your love! But somewhere under all that, you must know; YOU, the fans, are the sparkle in the artist eye, the excitement in their voice, and as you watch the stage, or listen to the cd, you have to know... the artist is performing for you... and you alone! YOU are the single most important piece in this puzzle, the most important part of the equation... without you, there would be no artist, no bands, the axes would go silent, the buzz of the silent PA would become deafening, the world would become silent!

Oh yes, it is true! YOU are the most important part of this thing called live music! Even in songwriting, I have heard it said from those of old, that “writer block” comes from losing site of the fans, feeling for them, seeing them, understanding their importance in the real scheme of things.

Two things today bring this home more than ever! One, watching the Grammy’s, one could just listen to the acceptance speeches and come to realize which ones receiving awards understood this. Some remembered the fans first, some half way through, and some at the end… some artist never once remembered the ones who truly put them there last night, YOU, the fans! And they will be gone soon!

The second thing was preparing this list over the last 6 weeks… has helped me understand how you feel about your bands, your artist, your favorite places to hang…etc. It is with true love and devotion that you filled in your ballots the hard way, that you took time to write in your thoughts, etc., tell us how we should do it, etc. We tried to listen out of respect to you.

So the next time you are heading for a show and decide that at the last minute it would be ok not to go, remember, the band, the artist…. Is doing it for YOU! They drive thousands of miles, burn up equipment, vehicles, themselves, just to do one thing, perform for YOU! Sure they make a living doing this, but… The real true artist would trade it all for one last song .. before YOU, the fans! For, you see, the real artist, the real musicians, they understand the love affair, and realize the driving force inside them is their love of music and their love of pleasing YOU!

My hats off to all of you many Oklahoma Music Fans! You guys are a truly amazing bunch of folks with open eyes, strong hearts, and lots of love! Thank you for taking time to do the balloting, and thank you for your undying support of Oklahoma Music!

Till next year, see ya at the next show!

PS. Also, wanted to take a second to say thanks to the thousands of military who read our site over the month. I am so thankful for you all, what you do and how you do it. You are the best~!

About the 2004 Payne County Line Music Awards.

The last three weeks in December, 2003, we put online a ballot with 12 areas that our fans could list their top 5 Artist in each area. We allowed only one ballot per email address. We asked the fans to consider only the year 2003. We added a box for Oklahoma/Texas/World … anyone who filled out a ballot to add on their comments, etc. or to add ideas to make this balloting even better. We decided not to change the ballot but work with what we had.

We received 25,500 plus ballots filled in somewhat. We then counted almost 5000, 4931, to be exact that were filled in as we ask voters to do. Of these almost all had ideas to make it better… with that in mind, we have added to our original list of 12 any area that had over 75 identical remarks about it. Thus, our recognition of 12 grew to 60 areas.

We finished officially counting these ballots on February 2nd, and began the collation of the results.. long process, but we wanted your voices to be heard, as we have received so much comment on other awards on other sites. We wanted your voices heard, especially on who you thought should win, what not to do to take away from or add to the recognition… etc.
From all this, we decided to simply announce the winners as nominated and voted on by the fans of Oklahoma Music that read our site and took the time to fill out and write notes on a long ballot, doing it the hard way… (no click on our choice), but write in YOUR choices.

In January, 2004, Payne County Line had over 300,000 hits thru the front door of our website, over 2 MILLION hits all together for the month, from over 40,000 sites around the world in 64 countries! Wow… not bad for a site started about 15 months ago! The most hit on our site is our news, next is calendar, next is photos, next is interviews… and on and on! Bands, keep this in mind… our second most hit page is calendar, so you all might want to use it, it’s free!

We are proud of the process, proud of the fans for taking time to fill out the ballots and the comments, and especially proud of the winners! We are also proud of all those in the Oklahoma Music Scene, the artist, the bands, the venues, the fans, the vendors, and the winners! Our hats off to ya! YOU make us proud!