The Arts Foundation of Michigan's Creative Artists Grant recognizes outstanding Michigan artists working in many different media all across the state. With funding from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the one year grant supports creation of new work, and assists in presentation of the work to the citizens of the state of Michigan.

Based upon a professionals' panel review of his past work, Neil Woodward was awarded the highest possible honors for 1993-1994. For the first time the review board recognized the modern troubadour's tradition as an artistic chronicle and commentary of significant individuals and events of our lifetime. Neil's project of composition, concert and recording was supported as "substantive work that demonstrably contributes to the evolution of the discipline." In The Year Of The Dog is that project.

1. Tearin' It Down
2. Seven Eleven Blues
3. The Swampin Of The Genesee Belle
4. ...Say No?!
5. Why Lovers Always Have To Cry
6. Visions Of Madeline
7. Tears For Pearl
8. Fish Fish Wish Wish
9. She Wasn't Askin Me
10. End Of The Siege
11. This Human Situation
12. She Likes Her Bagels Toasted

"...the protean backwoods maestro, Neil Woodward"

Detroit Free Press

"...a dazzling instrumentalist with a keen understanding of all the old song traditions... How could one guy have played all those instruments so beautifully? Amazing..."

Monthly Detroit