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09 Feb 06 - 09:19 AM (#1665191) Subject: 2006 Grammy Awards of Interest From: wysiwyg From: http://www.grammy.com/Grammy_Awards/Annual_Show/48_nominees.aspx#14 Category 36 - Best Female Country Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.) The Connection Emmylou Harris Track from: The Very Best Of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways [Warner Bros. Records/Rhino] Category 38 - Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (For established duos or groups with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Restless Alison Krauss And Union Station Track from: Lonely Runs Both Ways [Rounder] Category 40 - Best Country Instrumental Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.) Unionhouse Branch Alison Krauss And Union Station Track from: Lonely Runs Both Ways [Rounder] Category 42 - Best Country Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Lonely Runs Both Ways Alison Krauss And Union Station [Rounder] Category 67 - Best Traditional Folk Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Fiddler's Green Tim O'Brien [Sugar Hill Records] Category 68 - Best Contemporary Folk Album (Vocal or Instrumental.) Fair & Square John Prine [Oh Boy Records] Category 79 - Best Musical Show Album (Award to the Album Producer(s), and to the Lyricist(s) & Composer(s) of 51% or more of a new score. (Artist, Lyricist & Composer names appear in parenthesis.)) Monty Python's Spamalot John Du Prez & Eric Idle, producers; John Du Prez, composer; Eric Idle, composer/lyricist (Original Broadway Cast Including David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry, Hank Azaria & Sara Ramirez) [Decca Broadway] Category 87 - Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package The Legend Ian Cuttler, art director (Johnny Cash) [Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings] Category 89 - Best Historical Album The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax Jeffrey Greenberg & Anna Lomax Wood, compilation producers; Adam Ayan & Steve Rosenthal, mastering engineers (Jelly Roll Morton) [Rounder Records] Category 108 - Best Long Form Music Video (For video album packages consisting of more than one song or track. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer of at least 51% of the total playing time.) No Direction Home (Bob Dylan) Martin Scorsese, video director; Margaret Bodde, Susan Lacy, Jeff Rosen, Martin Scorsese, Nigel Sinclair & Anthony Wall, video producers [Columbia Legacy/Paramount Home Video] ~S~ |
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09 Feb 06 - 09:27 AM (#1665197) Subject: RE: 2006 Grammy Awards of Interest From: WFDU - Ron Olesko What about Sly Stone's comeback? I thought it was brillant! One of the local papers said that he had the look of someone who walked into the wrong rest room and made a quick exit, but I thought he was playing the crowd and media exactly the way he planned! Don't be surprised to see a new recording from this man over the next few months, this is all part of master plan. Now, J.D. Salinger's next book will be..... |
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09 Feb 06 - 10:39 AM (#1665234) Subject: RE: 2006 Grammy Awards of Interest From: wysiwyg How did I miss THIS one??? Subject: The Weavers win a Lifetime Grammy Award From: Wesley S - PM Date: 09 Feb 06 - 10:30 AM Last night the Weavers won a well deserved Lifetime achievement award at the Grammys. Fred and Ronnie were in attendance but there was no sign of Pete. I can't think of anyone who deserved this award any more than the Weavers. Good for them. ~S~ |
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09 Feb 06 - 10:47 AM (#1665240) Subject: RE: 2006 Grammy Awards of Interest From: WFDU - Ron Olesko also Robert Johnson received a Lifetime Grammy (his son was in attendance). They also flashed a photo of Harold Leventhal when they paid tribute to individuals who passed away during the past year. |
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09 Feb 06 - 11:04 AM (#1665249) Subject: RE: 2006 Grammy Awards of Interest From: wysiwyg Here is the MSNBC piece about this year's Lifetime awards. ~S~ ============================================================= Lifetime Achievement makes up for snubs Bowie, Haggard among artists to be recognized by Grammy this year Whether it's Kanye West, Norah Jones or Christopher Cross, major Grammy Awards typically go to the year's fastest horses in pop music. But slow and steady wins plenty of races, too. In recent years the Recording Academy has rectified some oversights by expanding the scope of its Lifetime Achievement Awards. Lifetime Achievement Award winners are often significant performers who have managed to slip through the Grammy cracks during their careers. The Beach Boys' only Grammy recognition to date, for instance, is for Lifetime Achievement. This year's class, announced earlier this week, is no exception. Rock stylist David Bowie has won a grand total of one Grammy in his four-decade career, and that was for a video. Country maverick Merle Haggard owns two Grammys, and he shared one of them, for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, with more than a dozen other singers. The Grammys, established in 1958, began recognizing lifetime achievement seven years later, when the Academy honored Frank Sinatra. For years, the award was presented only sporadically, to such titans of music as Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin and Louis Armstrong. By the 1990s, however, Grammy was growing more generous with the special award, often honoring multiple Lifetime recipients simultaneously. As with any honor roll or Hall of Fame, the inductees list has grown more eclectic and debatable over time. Perry Como won a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002; the late Janis Joplin won one last year. Besides Bowie and Haggard, this year's group includes the award's first-ever spoken word recipient (the late comedian Richard Pryor), a blues master who died at the age of 27 (Robert Johnson), and a psychedelic-era power trio that lasted little more than two years (Cream). Other honorees include the radical folk group the Weavers and opera singer Jessye Norman. Lifetime Achievement honorees David Bowie helped make theatricality a major component of rock with his carefully crafted persona, futuristic costumes and stylistic experimentation. Classic recording: the character-driven song cycle "The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust" (1972). Merle Haggard paved the way for hardcore country renegades who operate outside the Nashville system. Classic recording: "Songs I'll Always Sing" (1976). Richard Pryor, who died in December, changed the course of standup comedy with his blunt social and personal commentary. Classic recording: "That Nigger's Crazy" (1974). Robert Johnson was belatedly recognized as a blues pioneer when rock musicians began discovering the supernaturally charged recordings he made in 1936 and '37, not long before his mysterious death. Classic recording: the two-disc boxed set "The Complete Recordings" (1990). Cream was one of rock's first "supergroups," led by the guitar hero and future solo star Eric Clapton. The group, featuring singer-bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, recently reunited for a high-profile series of concerts. Classic recording: "Disraeli Gears" (1967), which featured the mind-altering hits "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of Your Love." The Weavers were the politically active traditional folk group that helped inspire the folk revival of the 1950s and '60s; founding member Pete Seeger was a Lifetime Achievement recipient in 1993. Classic recording: "The Weavers at Carnegie Hall" (1957). Opera and recital singer Jessye Norman, a noted humanitarian who was appointed an honorary U.N. ambassador in 1990, is the youngest person to receive the Kennedy Center Honor. Trustees Award honorees Chris Blackwell: The Island music executive was instrumental in bringing ska and reggae music to international audiences in the 1960s and '70s. His Island Records label established the careers of Bob Marley, Irish rockers U2 and many others. Owen Bradley: He helped shape the "countrypolitan" sound of Nashville with his meticulous production of such superstars as Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty. Al Schmitt: The recipient of 15 Grammy awards, Schmitt has worked on more than 150 gold and platinum albums, among them releases by Frank Sinatra, Diana Krall and Steely Dan. Tom Dowd: A nuclear physicist who took part in the Manhattan Project, later turned his mind to innovations in sound recording. His work with a who's who of popular musical talent, from Thelonious Monk and Ray Charles to Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd, was captured in the 2003 documentary "Tom Dowd & the Language of Music." |