Best New Disabled Performer (who declines the disability label)
Melody Gardot, www.melodygardot.com
Best Newly Discovered Song with Disability Content by Disabled Artists
Ray Charles and Chet Atkins, “We Didn’t See a Thing”
Best Rediscovered Disability Autobiography by an Amputee in Music
The Barbarians, “Moulty” Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
Best Reclaimed Disabled Performer
Carl Perkins (not to be confused with the West Coast jazz pianist who had polio, Carl Perkins)
“Yeah that doctor told me, ‘Son you don’t need no pills,
just a handful of nickels and a jukebox will cure your ills.’”