| Thursday showcase | Saturday showcase | |
| None of | winner: Bryan Masters Romeo Describes | winner: Randy Parks Dying in the Mine |
| alternate: Bob Hall This Life | alternate: Kenny Cornell The Devil He Won’t Find Me There No More | |
| Feelin’ Blue | winner: Ron Land Morning | winner: Rosie Gorrell When the Wheat Waved Goodbye |
| alternate: G. Lucas & R. Runyon Slumber | alternate: Peter Lippincott No Money Yet | |
| Children | winner: Eric Smith Get Up Outta That Bed | winner: Gina Holsopple The Rainbow |
| alternate: James Brentar Sing the Chorus | alternate: Susan Gammon Doodle Doo | |
| Winfield | winner: Jim McCarter Picker’s Paradise | winner: G. Lucas & R. Runyon No Showcase |
| alternate: Margo Martin Request for Mr. Redford | alternate: Scott & Gail Boyd Behind the Windshield | |
| Instrumental | winner: Jimmy DeHeno My Sister’s Waltz | winner: Helen Avakian Sister Song |
| alternate: David Kuncicky Blind Boy Billy Breakdown | alternate: Nate Puttorak The Wandering | |
| Religion/Spirit | winner: Lauren Heintz Feels Like a Miracle | winner: Spencer Williams My Prayer |
| alternate: Jim McCarter Pair of Dice (Paradise) | alternate: Bob Hall Home Again Someday | |
| Humor | winner: Joy Zimmerman Wish You’d Met Me When My Stomach Was Flat | winner: Brian Dacus (Ode to) Bill Monroe |
| alternate: Rosie Gorrell Cowboy’s Cowgirl | alternate: Tommy Reese Sisters | |
| Better World | winner: Ryan Triggs Better Times | winner: Peter & Mary Danzig (Otter Creek) Bidder 70 |
| alternate: Bob Hall Time to Go | alternate: Cindy Novelo Deliver Me | |
| Sweet Memories | winner: Tim Terral How to Say Goodbye | winner: Gene Collier Ode to Wallace |
| alternate: Jimmy DeHeno I Think She Likes Me | alternate: Spencer Williams Golden Boy | |
| Love | winner: Kenny Cornell I’m Gonna Be a Grandpa | winner: Julie Sutton In Bed With You |
| alternate: Jacob Wiley Ash Kansas Sun | alternate: Gina Holsopple I’m In Love |
