Nashville, Tenn. (Top40 Charts/
Music City News Media) - Award-winning, platinum-selling recording artist, songwriter and producer,
Aaron Tippin, and wife, independent recording artist and harmony vocalist, Thea Tippin, have been acknowledged as nominees for the 2009 Just Plain Folks
Music Awards (JPF.)
Aaron's nominations include Best Country Album for NOW & THEN featuring 'He Believed,' which is nominated as Best Country Song, while Thea's independent CD, MIGHTY GOOD GOD,has been recognized in the Best Contemporary Christian Album category and 'Mighty Good God,' the title track, has been named as a contender for Best Gospel Song. The Tippins jointly appear in four different categories, as co-writers with a shared credit for the two nominated singles.
Founded in 1998, JPF is an organization established to support independent songwriters and musicians through networking, education and promotional initiatives.
The Just Plain Folks Music Awards, created in 1999, was designed by the organization to give its more than 50,000 members a fair opportunity to win awards voted on by their fans, peers and music industry professionals.
After receiving a record-setting 42,000 albums and more than a half million songs from 163 countries around the world for this year's awards show, the JPF staff and a team of volunteers spent the last 14 months filtering through the music to narrow down nominees in 95 genres.
Aaron and Thea are in good company with diverse artists such as Gretchen Peters, Jerry Kilgore, Tonic Sol-fa, Bill Sheffield, The Gougers, Biscuit Burners, Todd Snider, boy eats drum machine and Psychograss who have also garnered nominations in the cross-genre platform.
The 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards show will take place in Nashville, Tenn. on August 29th, 2009 at the Wildhorse Saloon. Winners will be announced live at the show and posted on the website the following day. For a complete listing of this year's nominees and more information, please visit www.justplainfolks.org.
With 13 recorded CD's to his name and more than 30 charted singles (including the No. 1 singles "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio," "That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You" and "Kiss This"), Aaron Tippin has become one of the most recognizable and influential voices in country music. In addition to performing more than 200 dates a year, together with wife Thea, Aaron recently celebrated the launch of his own lifestyle initiative and the introduction of his personal line of nutritional supplements, Aaron Tippin Nutrition (ATN).
