Best Americana Album: Emotional Jukebox — Linda Chorney, Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down — Ry Cooder, Hard Bargain — Emmylou Harris, Ramble At The Ryman — Levon Helm, Blessed — Lucinda Williams.
Best Blues Album: Low Country Blues — Gregg Allman, Roadside Attractions — Marcia Ball, Man In Motion — Warren Haynes, The Reflection — Keb’ Mo’, Revelator — Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Best Folk Album: Barton Hollow — The Civil Wars, I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive — Steve Earle, Helplessness Blues — Fleet Foxes, Ukulele Songs — Eddie Vedder, The Harrow & The Harvest — Gillian Welch.
Best Recording Package: Reckless Kelly — Good Luck & True Love
Best Engineered Album (non-classical): Sarah Jarosz — Follow Me Down
Best Engineered Album (non-classical): Gillian Welch — The Harrow & The Harvest
While we are at it, nods also go out to Brian Setzer, The Decemberists, Mumford and Sons, Eric Brace and Peter Cooper, Jeff Beck, and Jim Lauderdale. The complete list is here. Can’t wait for the GRAMMYs, happening on February 12th in LA. We wish everyone good luck.
I know that one of these years, Kenny Vaughan will bag one of those awards. Yes he will. He started kicking around Nashville in 1987, where he played with The Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Patty Loveless, Rodney Crowell, Marshall Chapman, Kim Richey, and Greg Garing, with whom he joined in the reclaiming of Nashville’s historic Lower Broadway district. They played in the back room of Tootsie’s, planting the seeds for the future in what was once thought of as Skid Row, that has now grown into the bustling downtown mecca. Along the way, Kenny hooked up with Marty Stuart, and is a revered member of his Fabulous Superlatives. It was about time that Kenny put a record out of his own. V is it, and we were delighted to invite Kenny Vaughan to Marathon Recorders while we were in Nashville. He brought the boys; Rich Brinsfield on bass, and John Radford on drums. And they did rock. Behold, the Music Fog version of “Shimmy.”
-Jessie Scott