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  GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners List
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
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  Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was first awarded in 1970.
Between 1986 amd 1989 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist).
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
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 LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Gr'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
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 Deliverance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the scene at the rural gas station, character Drew Ballinger plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a mentally-handicapped mountain boy named Lonny (implied as being an inbred albino in the novel, portrayed by Billy Redden), who eventually outplays Drew with his banjo.
In 2001, the book was named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.
Four Atlanta businessmen -- Lewis, Ed, Bobby, and Drew -- decide to canoe down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the remote Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and see the glory of nature before the river valley is flooded over with the upcoming construction of a dam and lake.
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 Encyclopedia: Deliverance
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry.
The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry.
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.
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 Deliverance - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the scene at the rural gas station, character Drew Ballinger plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a mentally-handicapped mountain boy named Lonny (implied as being an inbred albino in the novel.
Four Atlanta businessmen -- Lewis, Ed, Bobby, and Drew -- decide to canoe down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the remote Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and see the glory of nature before the river valley is flooded over with the upcoming construction of a dam.
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - James Dickey
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 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Perfor... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Grammy Award for Best RandB Instrumental Performance - Psychology Central
The Grammy Award for Best RandB Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 1990 and in 1993.
From 1970 to 1985 the award was known as Best RandB Instrumental Performance
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 Tommy Allsup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1968 he moved to Nashville to manage Metromedia Records and over the years played guitar as well as produced some of the biggest names in Nashville music.
In 2000, Tommy Allsup shared the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Bob's Breakdowns"
Tommy Allsup has played guitar or bass on close to nine thousand recording sessions and his work has been recognized through by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Performance by a Chorus
Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra
Grammy Award for Best R&B Solo Vocal Performance, Male or Female
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 The Dixie Chicks : Dixie Chicks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Dixie Chicks is a country music group, formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas.
On March 5, 2003, Natalie Maines provoked controversy in America by saying, during a concert in London, that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas".
On May 22 at the Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards ceremony in Las Vegas there were boos when the group's nomination for entertainer of the year awards was announced.
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 Jerry Reed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As a singer, he may be best remembered for his novelty song "When you're Hot, You're Hot" for which he received the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1972.
He continued releasing both country and rockabilly singles to little notice until rocker Gene Vincent covered his "Crazy Legs" in 1958.
After a two-year tenure in the military, Reed moved to Nashville in 1961 to continue his songwriting career, which had continued to gather steam even as he was in the armed forces thanks to Brenda Lee's 1960 cover of his "That's All You Got to Do." He also became a popular session and tour guitarist.
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 Century of Country
They formed a Country band and played bars and lodge gigs in West Virginia and it was Oceans who came up with the band’s name.
In 1977, the band shared honors with The Sons Of The Pioneers and were voted "Best Touring Band" by the ACM and a year later it received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Instrumental Performance" for the track One O’Clock Jump from The Wheel album.
The "Wills" project also won another Grammy that year for its Art Director, Buddy Jackson, for "Best Recording Package." During 1995, it was announced that Asleep At The Wheel had been dropped from Capitol as part of the new management’s house cleaning.
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 Fiddle Legend Vassar Clements dead at 77 - Wikinews
He also performed several other blue-collar jobs including work in a Georgia paper mill, as switchman for Atlantic Coast Railroad; he even sold insurance and once owned a potato chip franchise.
His 2005 Grammy award for best country instrumental performance was for "Earl's Breakdown," by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and featured Mr.
Clements, whose last performance was February 4 in Jamestown, N.Y., was hospitalized earlier this year for 18 days to receive chemotherapy and other treatment.
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RIDE WITH BOB was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Country Album.
Going Away Party and Roly Poly were nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals.
Cherokee Maiden won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocal.
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 Marty Stuart | Time Line
Awarded first GOLD album for bringing a song called "The Highwayman" to the attention of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson.
Performs at the Tribute to Hank Williams at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH Produced The Christmas Guest for Andy Griffith
Performs for First Lady, Laura Bush, at a fundraiser for her cancer charity.
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 math lessons - Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard (born March 20, 1937) is an American country music singer, country guitarist, and songwriter.
He played at local clubs and was signed by Capitol Records to a three-year recording contract in 1955 By 1958, he was signed to NRC Records, where he also served as a guitarist and background vocalist in the staff band, working alongside other NRC artists Joe South and Ray Stevens.
He also received the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 1971 and 1993.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Jerry_Reed   (338 words)

  
 FrontPage Publicity - Dixie Chicks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Grammy - Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for “Roly Poly” with Asleep At The Wheel
According to Pollstar and Billboard, the Dixie Chick’s 2003 Top of the World Tour is ranked not only as the top country tour of the year, but also as the best country one year gross ever grossing $62 million.
The Dixie Chicks are the only artist in the history of the CMA Awards to be nominated for the prestigious Entertainer of the Year off a debut album.
www.frontpagepublicity.com /dixiechicks/dxcmain.html   (2599 words)

  
 math lessons - Deliverance
In the scene at the rural gas station, character Drew Ballinger plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a retarded mountain boy named Lonny (implied as being an inbred albino in the James Dickey novel), who eventually outplays Drew with his banjo.
One mountain man is killed by Lewis' archery skills, and the four make a run for it downriver, but soon Drew is shot and killed from behind in his canoe by the other mountain man, and then Lewis breaks his femur in the following boat crash in the rocky rapids.
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - John Boorman
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 Niel DePonte - 2003 Grammy Award nominee for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra
Niel DePonte - 2003 Grammy Award nominee for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra
Niel DePonte was one of 2003’s five Grammy Award nominees for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra for his recording of Oregon composer Tomas Svoboda’s
He is the Principal Percussionist of the Oregon Symphony, a post to which he was appointed in 1977 at the age of 24.
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 PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE -- Press Release
It is a true duet collection in every sense of the word, featuring Rowan’s sublime vocals on ten of his original compositions, while acoustic guitar virtuoso Rice’s remarkable instrumental work evokes, frames and enhances the emotions of each song with characteristic elegance.
Grammy-award winner and five-time Grammy nominee, Peter Rowan was born in Massachusetts to a musical family.
Twice nominated for a Grammy Award, he won for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 1986 as a member of New South.
www.keithcase.com /profiles/PRTR/PRTRTour01.htm   (800 words)

  
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His first love was country and Clark toured with Hank Williams and Grandpa Jones.
He has received awards from the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and a Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
He was the first country artist to headline at the Montreux International Jazz Festival, guest host the Tonight Show, and play at Madison Square Garden.
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 VH1.com : B.B. King : B.B. King, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash Score Grammys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Best Country Instrumental Performance went to Brown and jazz/bluegrass banjo player Béla Fleck for "Leaving Cottondale," a track from the Harvard graduate and former investment banker Brown's Fair Weather album.
Country legend Johnny Cash won his 10th Grammy, Best Male Country Vocal Performance, for his cover of Neil Diamond's "Solitary Man" on his album of the same name.
The inaugural Best Native American Music Album award went to Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, a collection of drum-circle recordings and other traditional American Indian music produced by Tom Bee, who began petitioning the Grammys for a Native American music category in 1990.
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 Texas Governor Rick Perry - Texas Grammy Winners
Grammy Past Winners to search by artist, genre, category, year, or title.
Best Country Instrumental Performance for Bob's Breakdowns (1999)
Best Country Vocal Collaboration for Cryin' with k.d.
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HOME was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical).
Recorded under the gentle hand of producer Lloyd Maines (front Chick Natalie`s pop), these dozen cuts are devoid of any Nashville gloss and are instead steeped in the organic harmonies and twang of recent releases by Nickel Creek and Dolly Parton.
With sisters Marty Maguire and Emily Robison providing instrumental support on fiddle and banjo respectively, the Chicks are equally at home ripping through the runaway breakdown "White Trash Wedding" as they are tapping into heartfelt compositions by Radney Foster ("Godspeed [Sweet Dreams]") and Patty Griffin ("Top Of The World").
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 Dixie Chicks RULE The ROOST -- The Place Where The Dixie Chicks RULE
Their follow-up, Fly, released in late 1999, proved that the trio was no one-hit wonder, as it reaped an even greater harvest of honors, including more Grammys and the Country Music Association's marquee award, Entertainer of the Year.
Their "Fly" tour of 2000 saw audiences around the country flocking to catch the dynamic trio in action - and in a departure from the country music norm, they were as likely to include young girls dressed as their favorite Chick as they were adults.
With a unique combination of respect for country's musical traditions and an unwillingness to be bound by its social ones, it's natural that the Chicks have earned recognition far beyond the genre.
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 City of Austin - New airport exhibit honors Grammy winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Willie Nelson’s Grammy and Lifetime Achievement awards are displayed, along with the Grammy awards for Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel, Eric Johnson and Johnny Gimble, Little Joe Hernandez, Ruben Ramos of Los Super Seven, and Shawn Colvin.
Two of the displayed artists are up for Grammy Awards this year, airing on February 21.
In addition, nominated for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal is Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson for the song entitled Cherokee Maiden.
www.ci.austin.tx.us /news/01/grammy2001.htm   (829 words)

  
 The Dixie Chicks
Since exploding onto the national country music scene just three years ago, the Texas-by-way-of-Nashville trio has won millions of fans and an avalanche of awards and critical acclaim.
Blending bluegrass skills, pop accessibility, rock beats and stone country music with a brash, irreverent attitude, the Chicks have created a fresh new sound that's instantly recognizable and always engaging.
The eight-time Grammy winning Dixie Chicks are participating in a on-line auction with the proceeds of their item going to benefit the American Diabetes Association in Nashville.
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 Fiddle virtuoso played many styles - workopolis.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Clements was one of several musicians who accompanied the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in Earl's Breakdown, the 2005 Grammy Award winner for best country instrumental performance.
His last performance was on Feb. 4 in Jamestown, N.Y. © The Globe and Mail.
No part of this article may be reproduced or republished or redistributed without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.
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 Home (Deluxe Limited Edition) (2CD) - Wal-Mart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This female trio's beguiling mixture of bluegrass, straight country and pop shook up the contemporary country scene in the late 90s.
They performed at clubs and dance halls and released two bluegrass-orientated independent label albums and a Christmas single, before Macy left to form the Domestic Social Club with Sara Hickman and Patty Lege.
Released in January 1998, Wide Open Spaces quickly became the bestselling country album released by a group in that year, and eventually climbed to number 4 on the Billboard Hot 200 and achieved multi-platinum sales.
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