Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 48 hours you’ll have seen the extensive coverage of this year’s GRAMMYS which featured the usual array of costumes, curveballs and a healthy-dose of ICE bashing – does it matter when celebs do it? There’s a good piece in The Guardian today which suggests it does. Anyway, this was a year when the line between country and americana was more blurred than ever, with Tyler Childers picking up a win in a country category, Charlie Crockett narrowly missing out (he was robbed!) in another country category and the winner of the best americana album being an artist we’ve never covered on AUK. The world is such a confusing place. Great to see Jesse Welles feature so prominently even if he didn’t win anything in the end. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners anyway – whatever you call it, we just love good music.
Best Country Solo Performance – For new vocal or instrumental solo country recordings.
Nose On The Grindstone – Tyler Childers
Good News – Shaboozey
Bad As I Used To Be — Chris Stapleton — WINNER
I Never Lie – Zach Top
Somewhere Over Laredo – Lainey Wilson
Best Country Duo/Group Performance – For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative country recordings.
A Song To Sing – Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton
Trailblazer – Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson
Love Me Like You Used To Do – Margo Price & Tyler Childers
Amen – Shaboozey & Jelly Roll – WINNER
Honky Tonk Hall Of Fame – George Strait, Chris Stapleton
Best Contemporary Country Album – For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new contemporary country recordings.
Patterns – Kelsea Ballerini
Snipe Hunter – Tyler Childers
Evangeline Vs. The Machine – Eric Church
Beautifully Broken – Jelly Roll — WINNER
Postcards From Texas – Miranda Lambert
Best Country Song – A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
Bitin’ List – Tyler Childers, songwriter (Tyler Childers) — WINNER
Good News – Sean Cook, Collins Obinna Chibueze, Michael Ross Pollack, Sam Elliot Roman, Nevin Sastry & Jacob Torrey, songwriters (Shaboozey)
I Never Lie – Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols & Zach Top, songwriters (Zach Top)
Somewhere Over Laredo – Andy Albert, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson & Lainey Wilson, songwriters (Lainey Wilson)
A Song To Sing – Jenee Fleenor, Jesse Frasure, Miranda Lambert & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Miranda Lambert And Chris Stapleton)
Best Traditional Country Album – For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new traditional country recordings.
Dollar A Day – Charley Crockett
American Romance – Lukas Nelson
Oh What A Beautiful World – Willie Nelson
Hard Headed Woman – Margo Price
Ain’t In It For My Health – Zach Top — WINNER
Best Americana Performance – For new vocal or instrumental Americana performance. Award to the artist(s).
Boom – Sierra Hull
Poison In My Well – Maggie Rose & Grace Potter
Godspeed – Mavis Staples — WINNER
That’s Gonna Leave A Mark – Molly Tuttle
Horses – Jesse Welles
Best American Roots Song – A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Americana, bluegrass, traditional blues, contemporary blues, folk or regional roots songs. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
Ancient Light – Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan & Sara Watkins, songwriters (I’m With Her) — WINNER
BIG MONEY – Jon Batiste, Mike Elizondo & Steve McEwan, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
Foxes In The Snow – Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell)
Middle – Jesse Welles, songwriter (Jesse Welles)
Spitfire – Sierra Hull, songwriter (Sierra Hull)
Best Americana Album – For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental Americana recordings.
BIG MONEY – Jon Batiste — WINNER
Bloom – Larkin Poe
Last Leaf On The Tree – Willie Nelson
So Long Little Miss Sunshine – Molly Tuttle
Middle – Jesse Welles
Best Folk Album – For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental folk recordings.
What Did The Blackbird Say To The Crow – Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson
Crown Of Roses – Patty Griffin
Wild And Clear And Blue – I’m With Her — WINNER
Foxes In The Snow – Jason Isbell
Under The Powerlines April 24 – September 24 – Jesse Welles
