Best SINGER-SONGWRITER
Jack Johnson
Like Jewel, Jack Johnson’s a kinda hippie-ish singer-songwriter who happens to enjoy surfing. Unlike Jewel, Johnson can surf — well enough that the Hawaian-born hunk turned pro as a teenager and started making and starring in those surfing films that make catching a wave look positively heroic. But Johnson eventually figured out that a guitar attracted just as many women as a board ... and that there’s a somewhat smaller chance of getting bitten by a shark in the music business. Five albums later (that’s including his 2006 sing-a-long album for kids, Curious George), Johnson’s still the same mellow dude strumming his melancholy reflections into likeable folk-pop nuggets, much like his good buddy Ben Harper but with less intricate guitar work. He may have had some, uh, feisty competition this year, but the all-American surfer dude is gonna beat the Canadian songstress — even a pair of identical twin Canadian songstresses — just about every day of the week.
— Matt Ashare
Runners-up
1. Feist
2. Tegan and Sara
3. Sam Beam (Iron and Wine)
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