Grammies Miss Mark

Subject: Grammies Miss Mark Again
From: Chris in Wheaton
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 11:27 AM

Some winners:
Traditional Folk Album: ``Wildwood Flower,'' June Carter Cash.
Contemporary Folk Album: ``The Wind,'' Warren Zevon.
Musical Album for Children: ``Bon Appetit!'' Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.

I can understand that June might fit the traditional category, but Warren Zevon???
Congrats to Cathy and Marcy - two greats that just keep going.

Chris in Wheaton

ps - saw the touring Slack Key trio last night - FANTASTIC!! - don't miss it if you get the chance. Thanks to George Winston for keeping this music alive.

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: Arnie Naiman
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 05:27 PM

Members of The Academy vote on nominations and awards. There are incufficient members of the recording folk music community willing to pay Academy dues in order to become members, and vote for good folk music recordings. It makes the traditional or contemporary folk categories a lucky crap shoot to get good and varied music voted on, and awards ususally go to very well known names or high profile - like the "Oh Brother" soundtrack (a lucky break last year, and a huge boom in bluegrass music awareness). I'm glad the Marcy and Cathy made it though - it should bring some noteriety to them and good children's music besides the usual Disney stuff that wins.
Overall though my feeling is the Academy Awards is nothing but more big business crappola that we could do without.

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: Burke
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:17 PM

I found a list of the winners at Yahoo . Here's more from part 2 & 3 (the interesting stuff that doesn't make the headlines)

Best Female Country Vocal Performance
• Keep On The Sunny Side - June Carter Cash [Dualtone Music Group]

Best Male Country Vocal Performance
• Next Big Thing - Vince Gill [MCA Nashville]

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
• A Simple Life - Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder [Skaggs Family Records]

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
• How's The World Treating You - James Taylor & Alison Krauss [Universal South]

Best Country Instrumental Performance
• Cluck Old Hen - Alison Krauss & Union Station [Rounder Records]

Best Country Song
• It's Five O'Clock Somewhere - Jim "Moose" Brown & Don Rollins, songwriters (Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett) [Arista Nashville]

Best Country Album
• Livin', Lovin', Losin' - Songs Of The Louvin Brothers - Various Artists [Universal South]

Best Bluegrass Album
• Live - Alison Krauss & Union Station [Rounder Records]

Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album
• Rise And Shine - Randy Travis [Word Records]

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
• Go Tell It On The Mountain - The Blind Boys Of Alabama [Real World]

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
• ...Again - Donnie McClurkin [Verity Records]

Best Gospel Choir Or Chorus Album
• A Wing And A Prayer - Bishop T.D. Jakes, choir director; The Potter's House Mass Choir [EMI Gospel/Dexterity Sounds]

Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album
• Afortunado - Joan Sebastian [Musart/Balboa Records]

Best Tejano Album
• Si Me Faltas Tu - Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz [Freddie Records]

Best Traditional Blues Album
• Blues Singer - Buddy Guy [Silvertone Records]

Best Contemporary Blues Album
• Let's Roll - Etta James [Private Music]

Best Traditional Folk Album
• Wildwood Flower - June Carter Cash [Dualtone Music Group]

Best Contemporary Folk Album
• The Wind - Warren Zevon [Artemis Records]

Best Native American Music Album
• Flying Free - Black Eagle [Soar]

Best Reggae Album
• Dutty Rock - Sean Paul [VP/Atlantic Records]

Best Traditional World Music Album
• Sacred Tibetan Chant - The Monks Of Sherab Ling Monastery [Naxos World]

Best Contemporary World Music Album
• Voz D'Amor - Cesaria Evora [Bluebird]

Best Polka Album
• Let's Polka 'Round - Jimmy Sturr [Rounder Select]

Best Musical Album For Children
• Bon Appétit! - Cathy Fink And Marcy Marxer [Rounder Kids]

Best Spoken Word Album For Children
• Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev & Sophia Loren (Kent Nagano; Russian National Orch.) [Penta Tone Music]

Best Spoken Word Album
• Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right (Al Franken) - Al Franken [HighBridge Audio]

Best Comedy Album
• Poodle Hat - "Weird Al" Yankovic [Volcano Entertainment]

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
Chicago - Various Artists [Epic Records/Sony Music Soundtrax]

Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
• The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers - Howard Shore, composer (Howard Shore) [Reprise Records/WMG Soundtracks]

Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
• A Mighty Wind (From A Mighty Wind) - Christoher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean, songwriters (The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, And The New Main Street Singers) - Track from: A Mighty Wind [DMZ/Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax; Publishers: Shmenge Music, Coney Island Whitefish Music & Tuxedo Time Music]

Best Instrumental Composition
• Sacajawea - Wayne Shorter, composer (Wayne Shorter) - Track from: Alegría [Verve Records]

Best Instrumental Arrangement
• Timbuktu - Michael Brecker & Gil Goldstein, arrangers (Michael Brecker Quindectet) - Track from: Wide Angles [Verve Records]

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
• Woodstock - Vince Mendoza, arranger (Joni Mitchell) - Track from: Travelogue [Nonesuch]

Best Recording Package
• Evolve - Ani DiFranco & Brian Grunert, art directors (Ani DiFranco) [Righteous Babe Records]

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package
• The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions - Julian Alexander, Howard Fritzson & Seth Rothstein, art directors (Miles Davis) [Columbia/Legacy Recordings]

Best Album Notes
• Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey - Tom Piazza, album notes writer (Various Artists) [Hip-O Records]

Best Historical Album
• Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey - Steve Berkowitz, Alex Gibney, Andy McKaie & Jerry Rappaport, compilation producers; Gavin Lurssen & Joseph M. Palmaccio, mastering engineers (Various Artists) [Hip-O Records]

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: michaelr
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 07:24 PM

Chris -- have you actually listened to Warren Zevon's last record?

I'm aware that he's always had one foot in the rock'n'roll camp and one foot in the singer-songwriter ditch (much like his old friends and champions Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt).

But if you listen to "Keep Me In Your Heart" you'll realize it's pure folk, like many of his older songs ("Carmelita" comes to mind).

One has to keep in mind that the Grammys, like the Oscars and other awards orgies, are the entertainment industry's self-congratulatory back-slap wank-fest celebrating the past year's releases, and as such are not likely to give awards to Ewan MacColl, Woody Guthrie, or whomever you might think of as deserving a folk award.

We had a thread here just the other day about "labels (read "categories"). My feeling is that these are more of a hindrance than a help, and that each musician deserves to be heard and evaluated on their own merit, regardless of classification.

Who said "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture"?

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: open mike
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 12:38 AM

great quote michael! i would like to know who to attribute it to!
I hope someone knows and will answer....I might want to quote that
one again!

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 01:07 AM

open mike, the quote was one of Steve Martin's.

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 01:20 AM

WOW !!!!!!! I'm dumbfounded. After all those years of being nominated, CATHY AND MARCY, finally and deservedly, WON !!!! Just last week they were here in Peru for a grand visit and dinner and I got to tell 'em, "By God, this is your year !!" But I'd told them that all those other years too. It simply must've been all those good vibes we laid on 'em in person. But really, of course, it was the superb musicianship, writing and arranging, all of it. They always pick great musicians for all of their projects. These two can play just about any kind of music that has ever been. I'm just so happy I can split a gut. WOW!!!! I'm starting to repeat myself and it's late--but this news has me so wired I'll not be able to sleep for sure.
And I'm embarrassed to say that we never even watched the show the other night---or last night or whatever. -------------- All I can fumblingly mutter is that I couldn't be happier for both of them !!! WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!! Congratulations.

Art and Carol Thieme
(((WOW !!!)))

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 09:15 AM

Unlike some, I simply want to add a UNQUALIFIED congratulations to Cathy and Marcy. This award is long overdue and is completely justified. The voters got it right.

All the best,

Mick Lane

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: GLoux
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 09:25 AM

I am gratified to see that Cathy and Marcy WON a grammy after seeing them on the nominations list so many times. I'm also delighted to see ROUNDER as the label so many times...(Best Polka Album???)...I did a brief check and think that ROUNDER got more grammies than any other label...very interesting...

-Greg

Subject: RE: Grammies Miss Mark
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 12:13 PM

Mark who?