Folk Music Grammy Winners for 2006
The 48th annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held last night. Here are the winners in folk, blues and bluegrass.
Best Traditional Folk Album
Fiddler’s Green, Tim O’Brien - Sugar Hill Records
Best Contemporary Folk Album
Fair & Square, John Prine - Oh Boy Records
Best Traditional Blues Album
80, B.B. King & Friends Geffen
Best Contemporary Blues Album
Cost Of Living,Delbert McClinton - New West Records
Best Native American Music Album
Sacred Ground - A Tribute To Mother Earth, Various Artists Jim Wilson, producer - Silverwave Records
Best Hawaiian Music Album
Best Bluegrass Album
The Company We Keep, The Del McCoury Band - McCoury Music/Sugar Hill Records
As is often the case some of the choices seem, well not terribly folk. The academy’s notion of ‘Traditional’ is particularly odd. To be fair Academy members are presented with a phone book size ballot and have to make selections on styles of music that they aren’t particularly familiar with. For folk music awards by a more knowledgeable audience look for the awards by the Folk Alliance which will be announced this coming weekend.
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