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  Grammy Award for Best Country Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Country Album has been awarded since 1995.
The equivalent award, the Grammy Award for Best Country and Western Album was presented in 1965 and 1966.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for music released in the previous year.
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 Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bl... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album has been awarded since 1982.
In 1989 the award was known as Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental)
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
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 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance : Best Comedy Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical has been awarded since 1958.
Grammy Awards of 2002: George Carlin for Napalm & Sillyputty
Grammy Awards of 2001: George Carlin for Braindroppings
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 Mark Hughes: Audio: Johnny Cash's Billboard ad
Cash's American Recordings album, Unchained, was named the Country Album of the Year by the voting membership of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).
With country label rosters literally bursting at the seams with new, young talent, there's a glut of performers vying for precious airplay.
Johnny Cash received the Grammy Award for best Country Album for "Unchained." However the Nashville music industry and radio for that matter has been unsupportive of Cash.
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 GRAMMY.com
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
(Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists.)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
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 Shania Twain - She is the new queen of country, an artist with remarkable voice, new country fare has made her a ...
Shania Twain - She is the new queen of country, an artist with remarkable voice, new country fare has made her a multi-million seller.
Her pleasant, if unremarkable, new country fare has made her a multi-million seller and something of a national heroine to boot.
With Come On Over the sexy vixen of modern country has carved out a bigger niche for herself that is sure to please her growing throng of fans.
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 BEST COUNTRY ALBUM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Grammy Award for Best Country Album has been given out since 1991 to honor performances from the previous year.
Grammy Awards of 1996: The Road to Ensenata - Lyle Lovett
Grammy Awards of 1994: The Stones in the Road - Mary Chapin Carpenter
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 Mary Chapin Carpenter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
With over eight million albums sold world-wide, five Grammy Awards, two Country Music Association Awards, and a host of other honors, this singer-songwriter has steadily added to her credentials as shes appealed to an ever-growing audience.
And, while her first album marked a professional breakthrough for the artist, it was her second release, State Of The Heart (1989), that launched Mary Chapin into the public eye for good.
Her next album, Stones In The Road (1994), debuted at Number One on the Billboard Country Album chart and held that position for five consecutive weeks.
www.lilithfair.com /lilith97/artists/MarChCa.html   (1352 words)

  
 Off the Kuff: RIP, Johnny Cash
Music in general, and country music in particular, is the lesser for it.
His ability to combine country, gospel, rock, blues and "rockabilly" music into a sound all his own was only matched by perhaps Elvis Presley.
To some, he was the man best known as the voice of "Folsom Prison Blues".
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 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance : Best Hard Rock Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year.
Grammy Awards of 1998: Smashing Pumpkins for "The End Is The Beginning Is The End"
Grammy Awards of 1992: Van Halen for For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
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 Printable Page with Information on Shania Twain. Contact Grabow to book Shania Twain for Event, Meeting or Gala
Five years later she was one of country music's biggest stars thanks to talent, charisma, and a va-va-voom body displayed at every opportunity.
Her 1995 album The Woman in Me won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album and eventually sold over 12 million copies.
Early in her career Twain was a controversial figure among country music purists, some of whom felt her music and made-for-video style was too close to MTV-style pop, but such criticism was ultimately buried under her overwhelming success.
www.grabow.biz /printable_pages/ShaniaTwain.htm   (224 words)

  
 Shania's Shelf Of Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
For becoming the first Canadian country artist to sell 1 million albums in her native land
In addition to the slew of awards, Shania was named one of People magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People in 1995.
She was also voted "The Sexiest Woman Alive" in a recent poll of listeners by a nationally syndicated radio talk-show.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/5910/award.html   (137 words)

  
 Shania Twain - She is the new queen of country, an artist with remarkable voice, new country fare has made her a ...
For erstwhile "new country" outsider Shania Twain, the commercial impact of her first live video doubtless carries the sweet smell of revenge.
At its best, VH-1's Behind the Music series walks a fine line between valentine and deep dish, coaxing personal tragedies and dark career missteps from its subjects while still acknowledging their achievements and saluting the fans.
This well-timed profile of the Canadian country crossover queen is an apt example, benefiting from abundant early video footage and a willingness (albeit very delicately employed) to raise some of the tougher questions about her public image.
www.romwell.com /entertainment/Shania/shaniavid.shtml   (243 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: Johnny Cash
At the end of the month the hospital treating Cash's pneumonia stated that he has fully recovered and is in good condition.
With just one finger Cash was raising eyebrows and turning heads in the country music world.
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals ("Temptation" with June Carter Cash).
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-c/johnnycash_main.htm   (680 words)

  
 1990s Rap, Rock, Country, Pop, Contemporary Folk, Jazz
Chris Whitley's debut album, Living With The Law, was acclaimed by both critics and the popular press.
After the release of their 1996 self-titled debut album, it didn’t take long for Nashville’s groundbreaking country band BR5-49 to move beyond the thriving "Lower Broadway" music scene.
The Grammys 98 - Aretha Franklin, who had already rocked New York's Radio City Music Hall with "Respect", topped herself by stepping in at the last instant for ailing opera star Luciano Pavarotti and blowing everybody away with "Nessun dorma", the hero's big aria from Puccini's Turandot.
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 Metroactive Music | Johnny Cash
The full-page ad depicted a younger Cash flipping his middle finger, accompanied by a short text that sarcastically thanked country radio stations for dumping him from their play lists a decade earlier and derided "the country music establishment in Nashville," which he felt had unfairly cast him aside at the height of his career.
In August he was nominated for four Country Music Association Awards for Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year ("Hurt"), Album of the Year, and Vocal Event of the Year ("Tears in the Holston River" with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).
His video for "Hurt" won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography and was nominated for Video of the Year, Best Male Video, Best Direction, Best Art Direction, and Best Editing.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/11.20.03/cash-0347.html   (641 words)

  
 MPR: Country singing legend Johnny Cash dies
He won one award for the video "Hurt," a reflection on mortality that showed his brittle health.
He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
Most recently, Cash was recognized for his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt." He had hoped to attend the MTV Video Music Awards, where the video won for best cinematography, but he was hospitalized.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2003/09/12_ap_cashobit   (1677 words)

  
 CountryStars.com Biography - Mary Chapin Carpenter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
It seemed to me that the typical greatest hits package was based upon a fairly predictable formula: include whatever had done best on the charts, limit it to eight or nine titles, then add a new song or two.
Yet I've always had songs on my albums that were never destined for the radio waves and I knew that the moment I finished writing them.
Her next album, Stones In The Road (1994), debuted at Number One on the Billboard Country Album chart and held that position for five
www.countrystars.com /artists/mccarptr.html   (1667 words)

  
 Johnny Cash Tribute Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
There is an album that he made that I think was one of his best and I always loved it.
The times we travelled around the Country to see a show, arriving by train and then hitching a lift back on their coach and being dropped in the middle of London in the middle of the night.
I also have an album of his where all of the songs are recorded from the native American point of view called Bitter Tears: Ballads Of The American Indian.
www.rockabillyhall.com /jc70.html   (16223 words)

  
 RHONDA VINCENT & THE RAGE BRING BLUEGRASS TO BREVARD COLLEGE’S PORTER CENTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
She picked up three major awards at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, including her fifth consecutive Female Vocalist Award, as well as Song of the Year (“Kentucky Borderline”) and Recorded Event of the Year for her part in the Louvin Brothers’ tribute Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’.
That latter effort also won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, earning Vincent her first Grammy.
Her first solo recordings in the late ‘80s were straight-ahead country efforts, but she was longing for that pure, high-lonesome bluegrass sound.
www.brevard.edu /news/rhonda_vincent04.asp   (463 words)

  
 Shaina Twain Shrine -History
But the ladies who do both--ah, now there is the heart and soul of it all, the women who give country music conscience and sizzle, with a full portion of romance from the feminine perspective thrown in at no extra cost.
Come On Over is her third album (Mercury Records), sixteen songs written by Shania with her husband and producer, Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
Shania's story may well be the great American dream, that is, the great North American dream, since she was born in Canada on August 28, 1965, the second oldest of five siblings.
www.musicfanclubs.org /shania/shanbio.html   (856 words)

  
 SingSong PR - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer Bon Appetit CD wins a Grammy Award Best Musical Recording for Children
The award for the Best Musical Album for Children was presented at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 8, 2004.
This is the first time in the history of the GRAMMY Awards that this category has been awarded to an artist who truly specializes in children's music and is not associated with a TV or movies soundtrack or licensed character.
It was selected as one of the Best CDs of 2003 by Child magazine and also won a Parents' Guide to Children's Media award.
www.pmpr.co.uk /msm41.htm   (479 words)

  
 Deep Discount CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
DRIVE was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Country Album.
Its refreshing lack of gung-ho patriotism and focus on small details ("Did you turn off that violent old movie you're watchin'/And turn on I Love Lucy reruns") is a hallmark of Jackson's songwriting, which is adept at finding a telling detail to highlight a bigger truth.
Elsewhere, in the best country tradition, "The Sounds" is a familiar tale of heartbreak freshly told, while "Work in Progress" is a catalog of a redneck doofus's unwitting transgressions that'll find an echo in many male listeners.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Country singing legend Johnny Cash dies of complications from diabetes
He won 11 Grammys – most recently in 2003, when "Give My Love To Rose" earned him honors as best male country vocal performance – and numerous Country Music Association awards.
June Carter Cash was the daughter of country music great Mother Maybelle Carter, and the mother of singer Carlene Carter, whose father was country singer Carl Smith.
The full-page ad celebrated Cash's 1998 Grammy award for best country album for "Unchained." The ad showed an enraged-looking Cash in his younger years making an obscene gesture to sarcastically illustrate his thanks to country radio stations and "the country music establishment in Nashville," which he felt had unfairly cast him aside.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20030912-0502-obit-cash.html   (1428 words)

  
 westcoastmusic: Rod Stewart First Grammy Award, Rod Stewart First Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album For ...
It was announced last night from a ceremony in Los Angeles that Rod Stewart has won a Grammy Award for "Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album" for his album "Stardust...
Rod Stewart's Songbook albums are a musical and cultural phenomenon, and are now the biggest-selling ongoing series of new music recordings in history.
The 47th annual Grammy Awards were held last night "Grammy Sunday," February 13, 2005, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
noted.blogs.com /westcoastmusic/2005/02/rod_stewart_fir.html   (542 words)

  
 Harley Allen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Harley allen and Darryl Worley are living that "awful beautiful life" at the top of the charts this week with "Awful, Beautiful Life." The debut single from Worley's new self-titled album holds the #1 spot on Billboard's Hot Country Singles and Tracks Chart as well as the #1 spot on RandR's Country Top 50 Chart.
Harley took home his 3rd Grammy when "LIVIN' LOVIN' LOSIN'" won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Album.
It is, in short, pure country, and Shelton says he knew the minute he heard it that it needed to be recorded and released.
www.harleyallen.com   (464 words)

  
 Great American Country - Shania Twain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
hey say the ladies who sing the country songs are a breed apart.
That album, which has also sold another 3 million copies outside the U.S., continues its record-breaking run on the Billboard Country Albums chart, 140-plus weeks (and counting) as of the November 1997 release of Come On Over.
She has performed at the CMA Awards, the AMA's, the Grammys, the Billboard Music Awards, World Music Awards, the Gala for the President at Ford's Theater, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Vanessa Williams' Christmas Special, CNN Showbiz Today and much more.
www.countrystars.com /artists/stwain.html   (1344 words)

  
 Shania Twain @ A Great Link   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
COME ON OVER was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Album Of The Year and Best Country Album.
When Shania Twain's self-titled debut came out in 1993, it was impossible to predict the impact she would soon have, not only on country music but on the pop world as well.
Instead, mainstream country is the order of the day: romantic ballads colored by appropriately sorrowful-sounding steel guitar, and perky up-tempo numbers capable of inducing a line-dance at a moment's notice.
www.agreatlink.com /agl/Shania/twain.htm   (797 words)

  
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