Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album

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Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album
Awarded forQuality works in the bluegrass music genre
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1989
Currently held byBilly Strings, Home (2021)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the bluegrass music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental),[3] the award was first presented to Bill Monroe in 1989. In 1990 and 1991 the category was renamed Best Bluegrass Recording, and in 1990 the award was reserved for singles rather than albums. Since 1992, the award has been presented under the category Best Bluegrass Album. Beginning in 1993, award recipients often included the producers, engineers, and/or mixers associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists.[4] In 1995 and 1997, producers of compilation albums were the only award recipients.

As of 2012, Alison Krauss holds the record for the most wins in this category, having won six times (five times with the band Union Station). The group consisting of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder has been presented five awards. Two-time recipients include Jim Lauderdale as well as the Nashville Bluegrass Band. The award has been presented to artists or groups originating from the United States each year to date. The Seldom Scene has the record for the most nominations without a win, with five.

In 2018, for the first time in the history of the category, there was a tie, resulting in both Rhonda Vincent and The Infamous Stringdusters winning the award.

Recipients 1980s, 1990s, 2000s[]

A woman wearing a brown jacket and playing a fiddle.
Six-time award winner Alison Krauss, performing in 2007
A man wearing a black shirt and playing a stringed instrument with his fingers. His eyes are closed, and he is standing behind microphone stands.
Five-time award winner Ricky Skaggs (along with Kentucky Thunder), performing in 2007
A woman with blond hair wearing large hoop earrings and red lipstick.
2001 award winner Dolly Parton
A man wearing a blue dress shirt, standing behind a microphone stand and holding a guitar.
Two-time award winner Jim Lauderdale
An older man wearing a white cowboy hat and a black dress shirt, standing behind a microphone stand and holding a banjo.
2003 award winner Ralph Stanley
A man wearing a blue dress shirt, standing behind a microphone stand and holding a guitar backed by his band.
Two-time winners The Del McCoury Band
A man wearing a suit and playing a banjo.
2010 award winner Steve Martin
A blonde woman in a green dress singing and playing the mandolin.
Rhonda Vincent received the award in 2018 following five previous nominations
A man playing guitar.
2021 recipient Billy Strings.
Year[I] Artist Work Nominees Ref.
1989 Bill Monroe Southern Flavor
  • Béla Fleck – Drive
  • David Grisman – Home Is Where the Heart Is
  • Peter Rowan and the Nashville Bluegrass Band – New Moon Rising
  • The Seldom Scene – 15th Anniversary Celebration
 [3]
1990 Bruce Hornsby and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "The Valley Road"
  • Doug Dillard Band – Heartbreak Hotel
  • Johnson Mountain Boys – At the Old Schoolhouse
  • Alison Krauss and Union Station – Two Highways
  • Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys – Live at the Opry
 [5]
1991 Alison Krauss I've Got That Old Feeling
  • Hot Rize – Take It Home
  • Mac Wiseman – Grassroots to Bluegrass
  • Nashville Bluegrass Band – The Boys Are Back in Town
  • The Dillards – Darlin' Boys
 [6]
1992 Carl Jackson and John Starling Spring Training
  • Alison Brown – Simple Pleasures
  • Jim & Jesse – Music Among Friends
  • Nashville Bluegrass Band – Home of the Blues
  • Osborne Brothers – Hillbilly Fever
 [7]
1993 Alison Krauss and Union Station Every Time You Say Goodbye
  • Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan and Lonesome Standard Time – Larry Cordle, Glen Duncan & Lonesome Standard Time
  • Jerry Douglas – Slide Rule
  • David Grisman, Herb Pedersen, Red Allen, Jim Buchanan, James Kerwin and Jerry Garcia – Bluegrass Reunion
  • The Seldom Scene – Scene 20: 20th Anniversary Concert
 [8]
1994 Nashville Bluegrass Band Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go
  • Stuart Duncan – Stuart Duncan
  • Johnson Mountain Boys – Blue Diamond
  • Tony Rice – Tony Rice Plays and Sings Bluegrass
  • Ralph Stanley – Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
 [9]
1995 Various artists[II] The Great Dobro Sessions
  • J. D. Crowe and the New South – Flashback
  • Del McCoury – A Deeper Shade of Blue
  • Osborne Brothers – When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland
  • The Seldom Scene – Like We Used to Be
 [10]
1996 Nashville Bluegrass Band Unleashed
  • Byron Berline – Fiddle and a Song
  • The Cox Family – Beyond the City
  • Claire Lynch – Moonlighter
  • Rose Maddox – $35 and a Dream
 [11]
1997 Various artists[III] True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe
  • Del McCoury Band – The Cold Hard Facts
  • Tim O'Brien – Red on Blonde
  • Peter Rowan – Bluegrass Boy
  • Various artists – The Stanley Tradition: Tribute to a Bluegrass Legacy
 [12]
1998 Alison Krauss and Union Station So Long So Wrong
  • Richard Greene and The Grass Is Greener – Sales Tax Toddle
  • Claire Lynch – Silver and Gold
  • Kate MacKenzie – Age of Innocence
  • Ralph Stanley – Short Life of Trouble
 [13]
1999 Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Bluegrass Rules!
  • Jim & Jesse – Songs from the Homeplace
  • Nashville Bluegrass Band – American Beauty
  • Ralph Stanley and Friends – Clinch Mountain Country
  • Doc and Merle Watson – Home Sweet Home
 [14]
2000 Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Ancient Tones
  • Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band – The Mountain
  • Béla Fleck – The Bluegrass Sessions
  • David Grisman, Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush, Jesse McReynolds, and Frank Wakefield – Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
  • Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley, and the Clinch Mountain Boys – I Feel Like Singing Today
 [15]
2001 Dolly Parton The Grass Is Blue
  • Alison Brown – Fair Weather
  • Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time – Murder On Music Row
  • Nickel Creek – Nickel Creek
  • Ricky Skaggs and Friends – Big Mon: The Songs of Bill Monroe
 [16]
2002 Alison Krauss and Union Station New Favorite
  • Patty Loveless – Mountain Soul
  • Dolly Parton – Little Sparrow
  • Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder – History of the Future
  • Ralph Stanley and Friends – Clinch Mountain Sweethearts
 [17]
2003 Clinch Mountain Boys, Jim Lauderdale, and Ralph Stanley Lost in the Lonesome Pines
  • Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver – The Hard Game of Love
  • Ralph Stanley – Ralph Stanley
  • Ralph Stanley II – Stanley Blues
  • Roland White Band – Jelly on My Tofu
 [18]
2004 Alison Krauss and Union Station Live
  • Del McCoury Band – It's Just the Night
  • Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder – Live at the Charleston Music Hall
  • Various artists – Christmas on the Mountain: A Bluegrass Christmas
  • Rhonda Vincent – One Step Ahead
 [19]
2005 Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Brand New Strings
  • Lynn Anderson – The Bluegrass Sessions
  • Nashville Bluegrass Band – Twenty Year Blues
  • Ralph Stanley II – Carrying On
  • Various artists – A Tribute to Jimmy Martin: "The King of Bluegrass"
 [20]
2006 Del McCoury Band The Company We Keep
  • Blue Highway – Marbletown
  • Cherryholmes – Cherryholmes
  • Rhonda Vincent and The Rage – Ragin' Live
  • The Grascals – The Grascals
 [21]
2007 Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Instrumentals
  • Jim Lauderdale – Bluegrass
  • Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Live at the Ryman
  • The Grascals – Long List of Heartaches
  • Rhonda Vincent – All American Bluegrass Girl
 [22]
2008 Jim Lauderdale The Bluegrass Diaries
  • Cherryholmes – Cherryholmes II: Black and White
  • J. D. Crowe and the New South – Lefty's Old Guitar
  • The Seldom Scene – Scenechronized
  • Tony Trischka – Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular
 [23]
2009 Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947
  • Cherryholmes – Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe
  • Del McCoury Band – Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
  • Earl Scruggs with Family and Friends – The Ultimate Collection: Live at the Ryman
  • Dan Tyminski – Wheels
 [24]
2010 Steve Martin The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo
  • Jim Lauderdale – Could We Get Any Closer?
  • Michael Martin Murphey – Buckaroo Blue Grass
  • Bryan Sutton and Friends – Almost Live
  • Rhonda Vincent – Destination Life
 [25]
2011 Patty Loveless Mountain Soul II
  • Sam Bush – Circles Around Me
  • Del McCoury Band – Family Circle
  • Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band – Legacy
  • The SteelDrivers – Reckless
 [26]
2012 Alison Krauss and Union Station Paper Airplane
  • Jim Lauderdale – Reason and Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs by Robert Hunter and Jim Lauderdale
  • Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers – Rare Bird Alert
  • Del McCoury Band – Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe
  • Ralph Stanley – A Mother's Prayer
  • Chris Thile and Michael Daves – Sleep with One Eye Open
2013 Steep Canyon Rangers Nobody Knows You
  • Dailey & Vincent – The Gospel Side Of...
  • The Grascals – Life Finds a Way
  • Noam Pikelny – Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail
  • The Special Consensus – Scratch Gravel Road
 [27]
2014 Del McCoury Band The Streets of Baltimore
  • The Boxcars – It's Just a Road
  • Dailey & Vincent – Brothers of the Highway
  • Della Mae – This World Oft Can Be
  • James King – Three Chords and the Truth
2015 The Earls of Leicester The Earls of Leicester
  • Noam Pikelny – Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe
  • Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen – Cold Spell
  • Bryan Sutton – Into My Own
  • Rhonda Vincent – Only Me
 [28]
2016 The SteelDrivers The Muscle Shoals Recordings
  • Dale Ann Bradley – Pocket Full of Keys
  • Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley – Before the Sun Goes Down
  • Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver – In Session
  • Ralph Stanley and Friends – Man of Constant Sorrow
2017 O'Connor Band with Mark O'Connor Coming Home
  • Blue Highway – Original Traditional
  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Burden Bearer
  • Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands – The Hazel and Alice Sessions
  • Claire Lynch – North by South
 [29]
2018 Rhonda Vincent and the Rage
The Infamous Stringdusters 		All the Rage
Laws of Gravity
  • Michael Cleveland – Fiddler's Dream
  • Bobby Osborne – Original
  • Noam Pikelny – Universal Favorite
 [30]
2019 The Travelin' McCourys The Travelin' McCourys
  • Mike Barnett — Portraits in Fiddles
  • Sister Sadie — II
  • The Special Consensus — Rivers and Roads
  • Wood & Wire — North of Despair
 [31]

2020s[]

Year[I] Artist Work Nominees Ref.
2020 Michael Cleveland Tall Fiddler
  • Live in Prague, Czech Republic - Doyle Lawson & Quiksilver
  • Toil, Tears & Trouble - The Po'Ramblin' Boys
  • Royal Traveller - Missy Raines
  • If You Can't Stand the Heat - Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
2021 Billy Strings Home
  • Danny Barnes - Man on Fire
  • Thomm Jutz - To Live In Two Words, Vol. 1
  • Steep Canyon Rangers - North Carolina Songbook
  • Various Artists - The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1
 [32]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
^[II] Awards were presented to Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor as the producers of the album.
^[III] An award was presented to Todd Phillips as the producer of the album.

See also[]

References[]

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