Maren Morris Leads Country Grammy
Nominees
With Four Nods
(6
Dec 2016)
The
nominees for the 59th Grammy Awards
were announced with last year's Best New Artist winner Meghan Trainor unveiling the contestants for the marquee categories
live on CBS. The field is led by Beyoncé
with 9 nominations, followed by similarly huge stars Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West (8 each).
But
of course, with 84 categories in all, the Grammys are always about far more
than just the biggest names.
Maren Morris led all Country artists with four GRAMMY nominations on Tuesday morning
Dec 6, 2016, including Country Album (“HERO”),
Country Solo Performance, and Best Country Song (“My Church”).
Morris
and Kelsea
Ballerini are included in the
overall Best New Artist category,
competing with The Chainsmokers, Chance The Rapper, and Anderson .Paak.
Keith Urban earned three nods:
Country Album (“RIPCORD”), Country
Song and Solo Performance (“Blue Ain’t Your Color”).
Newcomer
Brandy Clark scored two nominations; Country Album of the Year
(“BIG DAY IN A SMALL TOWN”) and Country Solo Performance (“Love Can Go To Hell”).
Two-time
career GRAMMY winner Miranda Lambert has two more GRAMMY nominations
this year: Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance (“Vice”).
A
pair of Country legends also bagged GRAMMY nods: Loretta Lynn with Country Album of the Year for her FULL CIRCLE collection, and Dolly
Parton, featured with Pentatonix on
her classic, “Jolene.”
Not
in the Country category, but still worth noting: Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott is
a double nominee in the Contemporary
Christian category, along with her family, for their album LOVE REMAINS, and the song, "Thy
Will."
Additionally,
Lori McKenna, a Country
Song of the Year nominee with "Humble And Kind," is nominated
in the Americana Album of the Year category for her LP, THE BIRD AND THE RIFLE, which contains her version of "Humble
And Kind." McKenna also scored an American Roots nod for her song, "Wreck You," making
her a multiple GRAMMY nominee.
Vince Gill also scooped up a nod
in the Best American Roots Song
category as the songwriter for his group, The Time Jumpers' song, "Kid
Sister," which is the title track of the album also earning a Best Americana Album nod.
Country
legend Kris
Kristofferson is also nominated in
that category for "The Cedar Creek Sessions."
Sturgill
Simpson also
earns nods in the Best Country Album
and overall Album Of The Year
categories for his A SAILOR'S GUILD TO
EARTH while Country icon Willie Nelson gains
a nomination for Best Traditional Pop
Vocal Album for "Summertime: Willie
Nelson Sings Gershwin."
Country
duo Joey+Rory grabbed a nomination for Best Roots Gospel Album for their HYMNS collection, released shortly before Joey's passing earlier
this year.
Additionally,
"American
Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry" earned a
nomination for Best Music Film.
59th Grammy Awards
Nominations
Country
music & Americana interest and one's we like shown in
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GENERAL FIELD
Album Of The Year (Category 2):
25
— Adele
Lemonade
— Beyoncé
Purpose
— Justin Bieber
Views
— Drake
A
Sailor's Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Best New Artist (Category 4):
Kelsea Ballerini
The
Chainsmokers
Chance
The Rapper
Maren Morris
Anderson
.Paak
Best Traditional Pop
Vocal Album
(Category 7):
Cinema
- Andrea Bocelli Label: Verve
Fallen
Angels - Bob Dylan Label: Columbia Records
Stages
Live - Josh Groban Label: Reprise
Summertime:
Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin - Willie Nelson
Label: Legacy Recordings
Encore:
Movie Partners Sing Broadway - Barbra Streisand Label: Columbia Records
COUNTRY FIELD
Best Country Solo
Performance
(Category 26):
"Love
Can Go To Hell" — Brandy Clark
"Vice"
— Miranda Lambert
"My
Church" — Maren Morris
"Church
Bells" — Carrie Underwood
"Blue
Ain't Your Color" — Keith Urban
Best Country Duo/Group
Performance
(Category 27):
"Different
for Girls" — Dierks Bentley featuring Elle King
"21
Summer" — Brothers Osborne
"Setting
The World On Fire" — Kenny Chesney & P!nk
"Jolene"
— Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton
"Think
Of You" — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope
Best Country Song (Category 28):
"Blue
Ain't Your Color" — Clint Lagerberg, Hillary Lindsey & Steven Lee
Olsen, songwriters (Keith Urban)
"Die
A Happy Man" — Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett & Joe Spargur, songwriters
(Thomas Rhett)
"Humble
and Kind" — Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim
McGraw)
"My
Church" — busbee & Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris)
"Vice"
— Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Miranda
Lambert)
Best Country Album (Category 29):
Big
Day In A Small Town — Brandy Clark
Full
Circle — Loretta Lynn
Hero
— Maren Morris
A
Sailor's Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Ripcord
— Keith Urban
Best Contemporary
Christian Music Album
(Category 39):
Poets
& Saints - All Sons & Daughters Label: Integrity Music
American
Prodigal - Crowder Label: sixstepsrecords/Sparrow Records
Be
One - Natalie Grant Label: Curb Records
Youth
Revival [Live] - Hillsong Young & Free Label: Hillsong Music Australia
Love
Remains - Hillary Scott & The Scott Family Label:
EMI Records Nashville
Best Roots Gospel Album (Category 40):
Better
Together — Gaither Vocal Band
Nature's
Symphony In 432 — The Isaacs
Hymns
— Joey+Rory
Hymns
And Songs Of Inspiration — Gordon Mote
God
Don't Ever Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson — (Various Artists)
Best American Roots
Performance
(Category 45)
Ain't
No Man - The Avett Brothers Track from: True Sadness Label: American
Recordings/Republic Records
Mother's
Children Have A Hard Time - Blind Boys Of Alabama Track from: God Don't Never
Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson Label: Alligator Records
Factory
Girl - Rhiannon Giddens Track from: Factory Girl Label: Nonesuch Records Inc.
House
Of Mercy - Sarah Jarosz Track from:
Undercurrent Label: Sugar Hill Records
Best American Roots
Song
(Category 46):
Alabama
At Night - Robbie Fulks, songwriter (Robbie
Fulks) Track from: Upland Stories Label: Bloodshot Records; Publisher(s): Lorne
Rall Music
City
Lights - Jack White, songwriter (Jack White) Track from: Jack White Acoustic
Recordings 1998 - 2016 Label: Columbia/Third Man Records; Publisher(s):
Peppermint Stripe Music
Gulfstream
- Eric Adcock & Roddie Romero, songwriters (Roddie Romero And The Hub City
All-Stars) Track from: Gulfstream Label: Octavia Records; Publisher(s): Grand
Bayou Music/Roddie Romero Music
Kid
Sister - Vince Gill, songwriter (The Time
Jumpers) Track from: Kid Sister Label: Rounder Records; Publisher(s): Vinny Mae
Music admin. by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing
Wreck
You - Lori McKenna & Felix McTeigue,
songwriters (Lori McKenna) Label: CN Records; Publisher(s): Melanie Howard
Music, Inc./Rusty Muffler Songs admin. by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing
Best Americana Album (Category 47):
True
Sadness — The Avett Brothers
This
Is Where I Live — William Bell
The
Cedar Creek Sessions — Kris Kristofferson
The
Bird & The Rifle — Lori McKenna
Kid
Sister — The Time Jumpers
Best Bluegrass Album (Category 48):
Original
Traditional — Blue Highway
Burden
Bearer — Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
The
Hazel Sessions — Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands
North
And South — Claire Lynch
Coming
Home — O'Connor Band With Mark O'Connor
Best Folk Album (Category 51):
Silver
Skies Blue — Judy Collins & Ari Hest
Upland
Stories — Robbie Fulks
Factory
Girl — Rhiannon Giddens
Weighted
Mind — Sierra Hull
Undercurrent
— Sarah Jarosz
Best Album Notes (Category 67)::
The
Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection — Mikal Gilmore, album notes
writer (Kris Kristofferson)
The Knoxville Sessions, 1929-1930: Knox County Stomp — Ted Olson
& Tony Russell, album notes writers (Various Artists)
Ork
Records: New York, New York — Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, album notes writers
(Various Artists)
Sissle
And Blake Sing Shuffle Along — Ken Bloom & Richard Carlin, album notes
writers (Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle)
Waxing
The Gospel: Mass Evangelism & The Phonograph, 1890-1990 — Richard Martin,
album notes writer (Various Artists)
The drama surrounding Beyonce‘s song “Daddy Lessons” off her critically-acclaimed album LEMONADE continues.
Rolling Stone Country reported
that the song was allegedly given a no-go from the Recording Academy when
seeking consideration in the Grammy Awards’ country categories. The pop
superstar joined forces with the Dixie
Chicks at the 2016 CMA Awards to perform a stellar rendition of “Daddy
Lessons,” releasing a special version of the song after night’s spectacle. The
performance was followed by a swarm of controversy when the CMA was accused of
deleting social media posts surrounding Beyonce’s appearance at the show, which
the country music organization denied doing.
2017’s
Grammy nominations were announced on Tuesday (Dec. 6), with Beyonce leading the
nominees for a total of nine nods across a variety of categories, including
Album of the Year for Lemonade, Best Music Video, Best Urban Contemporary Album
and even Best Rock Performance for her collaboration with Jack White on “Don’t
Hurt Yourself.”
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