At the International Country Music Conference, held last weekend at Belmont University, the Belmont Book Award for the best book on country music was presented to Bar Biszick-Lockwood for her book, Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach & Hill and Range Songs, and the Lifetime Achievement Award “for linking books and country music” was presented to Ralph Emery by Don Cusic, founder and chair of the Belmont Book Awards. Pictured, left to right, are Don Cusic, Bar Biszick-Lockwood and Ralph Emery.