More bluegrass Grammy news
There are a number of other bluegrass artists with Grammy nominations announced yesterday.
Rhonda Vincent and Bobby Osborne are nominated in the Best Country Collaboration With Vocals category for Midnight Angel, from Rhonda’s All American Bluegrass Girl CD.
The Del McCoury Band received a nomination for The Promised Land in the Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album category.
Then, of course, we have the Best Bluegrass Album category. Those nominees are:
Bluegrass – Jim Lauderdale
Instrumentals – Ricky Skaggs And Kentucky Thunder
Live At The Ryman – Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives
All American Bluegrass Girl – Rhonda Vincent
See the complete list of nominees on the Grammy web site.
UPDATE 8:00 a.m. Also receiving a Grammy nomination yesterday was Ralph Stanley. His A Distant land To Roam CD was nominated in the Best Traditional Folk Album category.


The nominees for the 50th Grammy Awards were announced today, and a number of bluegrass/acoustic artists see their names in the list.
The nominees for the Best Bluegrass Album are:
Cherryholmes II Black And White - Cherryholmes
Lefty's Old Guitar - J.D. Crowe & The New South
The Bluegrass...
The nominees for the 51st Grammy Awards have been announced, and the bluegrass category is filled with familiar names.
Here are the nominees for Best Bluegrass Album for 2009.
Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe - Cherryholmes
Del McCoury Band — Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage...
Tim Stafford wrote in to tell us that the Grammy nominations are out. Category 43 Best Bluegrass Album (Vocal or Instrumental) is the one that interests us. Here's the list of nominees:
Marbletown - Blue Highway
Cherryholmes - Cherryholmes
The Grascals - The Grascals
The Company We Keep...
Yesterday's (2 /9) Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album went to Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder for Honoring The Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947.
Congratulations to Ricky and the boys!
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant won 5 Grammies for their Raising Sand CD - Album Of The Year,...
May 23rd has been set as the release date for Rhonda Vincent's new CD, All American Bluegrass Girl. The members of her band, The Rage, accompany her on the CD along with session musicians, and ledgends Bobby Osborne and Dolly Parton. Rhonda co-produced the album with her broher Darrin Vincent and recorded...
The 2008 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album goes to Jim Lauderdale for The Bluegrass Diaries.
Jim introduced his producer, Randy Kohrs, as he was accepting the award, and recognized all the pickers on the album by name. He also referenced each of the other nominees (Seldom Scene, Cherryholmes,...




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