Agree with Desi. I assume they must have had awards of a similar nature in the past. If not, this one would have been overdue by about 40 years. Not so much for the music they made, about which we could argue all night, but for what they represented and the role they played in making people want to listen to folk. We can safely forget the snobs. A lot of the performers they would prefer gained their own audiences precisely because, thanks to bands like the Spinners, people were made aware of them.