The Recording Academy has come out with their nominations, and for those of you who hate painstaking research, here are Elmore-friendly nominees and links to what we thought about them. (Scroll down and re-click recurring names, because the same nominee will often have multiple links in Elmore.)
59th Annual GRAMMY® Awards
Category 1 – Record Of The Year
- Stressed Out Twenty One Pilots
Category 2 – Album Of The Year
- A Sailor’s Guide To Earth Sturgill Simpson
Category 5 – Best Pop Solo Performance
- Piece By Piece (Idol Version) Kelly Clarkson
Category 7 – Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- Fallen Angels Bob Dylan
- Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Willie Nelson
Field 3 – Contemporary Instrumental Music
- When You Wish Upon A Star Bill Frisell
Category 12 – Best Rock Performance
- Joe (Live From Austin City Limits) Alabama Shakes
- Blackstar David Bowie
- Heathens Twenty One Pilots
Category 14 – Best Rock Song
- Blackstar David Bowie, songwriter (David Bowie)
- Burn The Witch Radiohead, songwriters (Radiohead)
- Hardwired James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica)
- Heathens Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots)
Category 15 – Best Rock Album
- California Blink-182
- Tell Me I’m Pretty Cage The Elephant
- Death Of A Bachelor Panic! At The Disco
- Weezer Weezer
Category 16 – Best Alternative Music Album
- Blackstar David Bowie
- Post Pop Depression Iggy Pop
- A Moon Shaped Pool Radiohead
Category 18 – Best Traditional R&B Performance
- The Three Of Me William Bell
Category 26 – Best Country Solo Performance
- Love Can Go To Hell Brandy Clark
- Vice Miranda Lambert
- Church Bells Carrie Underwood
- Blue Ain’t Your Color Keith Urban
Category 27 – Best Country Duo/Group Performance
- Different For Girls Dierks Bentley Featuring Elle King
- 21 Summer Brothers Osborne
- Jolene Pentatonix Featuring Dolly Parton
- Think Of You
Category 29 – Best Country Album
- Big Day In A Small Town Brandy Clark
- Full Circle Loretta Lynn
- A Sailor’s Guide To Earth Sturgill Simpson
- Ripcord Keith Urban
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry John Scofield, soloist
Category 32 – Best Jazz Vocal Album
- Upward Spiral Branford Marsalis Quartet With Special Guest Kurt Elling
- Take Me To The Alley Gregory Porter
- Harlem On My Mind Catherine Russell
- The Sting Variations The Tierney Sutton Band
Category 33 – Best Jazz Instrumental Album
- Country For Old Men John Scofield
Field 11 – Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music
- Youth Revival [Live] Hillsong Young & Free
Category 45 – Best American Roots Performance
- Ain’t No Man The Avett Brothers
- Mother’s Children Have A Hard Time Blind Boys Of Alabama
- Factory Girl Rhiannon Giddens
- House Of Mercy Sarah Jarosz
- Wreck You Lori McKenna
Category 46 – Best American Roots Song
- Alabama At Night Robbie Fulks
- City Lights Jack White
- Gulfstream Roddie Romero And The Hub City All-Stars
- Kid Sister The Time Jumpers
- Wreck You Lori McKenna
Field 13 – American Roots Music
- 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
Field 13 – American Roots Music
- Original Traditional Blue Highway [Rounder Records]
- Burden Bearer Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Category 49 – Best Traditional Blues Album
- Can’t Shake This Feeling Lurrie Bell
- Live At The Greek Theatre Joe Bonamassa
- Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II) Luther Dickinson
- The Soul Of Jimmie Rodgers Vasti Jackson
- Porcupine Meat Bobby Rush
Category 50 – Best Contemporary Blues Album
- The Last Days Of Oakland Fantastic Negrito
- Love Wins Again Janiva Magness
- Bloodline Kenny Neal
- Give It Back To You The Record Company
- Everybody Wants A Piece Joe Louis Walker
Category 51 – Best Folk Album
- Silver Skies Blue Judy Collins & Ari Hest
- Upland Stories Robbie Fulks
- Factory Girl Rhiannon Giddens
- Weighted Mind Sierra Hull
- Undercurrent Sarah Jarosz
Category 52 – Best Regional Roots Music Album
- Broken Promised Land Barry Jean Ancelet & Sam Broussard
- Gulfstream Roddie Romero And The Hub City All-Stars
Category 56 – Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)
- M Train Patti Smith
- Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink Elvis Costello
Category 68 – Best Historical Album
- The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol.12 (Collector’s Edition) (Bob Dylan)
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