> On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, this isn't new.. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_New_Artist > Maroon 5 in 2005 (they'd been together under that name for 4 years > previously and under another name since the mid-90s)....Imogen Heap was > nominated for the 2007 awards even though her first album came out in > 1998...Shelby Lynne won in 2001 and she'd been around since the 80s! > Basically the "new" tag has always been BS. You don't exist until they notice you. -- _______________________ *Sam Smith* * » Lullaby Pit * *: Editor* * » Scholars & Rogues * *: Editor* *voice:* *303.229.0619 /m* *skype**:** * docsammy22 *usps**:* 7660 Dyer Rd. Louisville CO 80027 *aim:* lullabypit *e-mail:* sam@estreet.com /"...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your heart." / / - John Millington Synge /