Grammy Award for Best Folk Album

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Grammy Award for Best Folk Album
Awarded forquality vocal or instrumental folk music albums
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded2012
Currently held byGillian Welch & David Rawlings, All The Good Times (2021)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Folk 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 releasing albums in the folk 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]

According to the 54th Grammy Awards guideline the Best Folk Album category includes authentic folk material in both traditional vocal and instrumental styles, as well as contemporary material by artists who use traditional folk elements, sounds and instrumental techniques as the basis for their recordings. Folk music is primarily but not exclusively acoustic, often using contemporary arrangements with production and sensibilities distinctly different from a pop approach.[3]

This award combines the previous categories for Best Contemporary Folk Album and Traditional Folk Album. The Recording Academy decided to create this new category for 2012 upon stating there were "challenges in distinguishing between... Contemporary and Traditional Folk".[4]

Recipients[]

The Civil Wars are the inaugural winners of the award.
Husband and wife Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn won the award in 2016.
2019 recipient Patty Griffin.
Musical partners David Rawlings and Gillian Welch won the award in 2021.
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Title Other Nominees Ref.
2012 The Civil Wars Barton Hollow
[5]
2013 Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile The Goat Rodeo Sessions
  • Carolina Chocolate Drops — Leaving Eden
  • Ry Cooder — Election Special
  • Luther Dickinson — Hambone's Meditations
  • Shawn Camp & Tamara Saviano (album producers) — This One's To Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark, performed by various artists
 [6]
2014 Guy Clark My Favorite Picture of You
  • The Greencards — Sweetheart of the Sun
  • Sarah Jarosz — Build Me Up From Bones
  • The Milk Carton Kids — The Ash & Clay
  • Various Artists/Chris Strachwitz (producer) — They All Played For Us: Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration
 [7]
2015 Old Crow Medicine Show Remedy
[8]
2016 Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
  • Norman Blake — Wood, Wire & Words
  • Rhiannon Giddens — Tomorrow Is My Turn
  • Patty Griffin — Servant of Love
  • Glen Hansard — Didn't He Ramble
 [9]
2017 Sarah Jarosz Undercurrent
  • Judy Collins & Ari Hest — Silver Skies Blue
  • Robbie Fulks — Upland Stories
  • Rhiannon Giddens — Factory Girl
  • Sierra Hull — Weighted Mind
 [10]
2018 Aimee Mann Mental Illness
  • Laura Marling — Semper Femina
  • Offa Rex — The Queen of Hearts
  • The Secret Sisters — You Don't Own Me Anymore
  • Yusaf / Cat Stevens — The Laughing Apple
 [11]
2019 Punch Brothers All Ashore
[12]
2020
 Patty Griffin Patty Griffin
[13]
2021
 Gillian Welch & David Rawlings All The Good Times
  • Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman
  • Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance
  • Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
  • Secret Sisters - Saturn Return
 [14]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Artists with multiple nominations[]

3 nominations
  • Rhiannon Giddens (one as a member The Carolina Chocolate Drops)
2 nominations
  • Dom Flemons (one as a member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops)
  • Patty Griffin
  • Sarah Jarosz
  • Laura Marling
  • Chris Thile
  • Gillian Welch
  • Joy Williams (one as a member of The Civil Wars)

See also[]

  • List of Grammy Award categories

References[]

  1. ^ "Grammy Awards at a Glance". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  2. ^ "Overview". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
  3. ^ "Category Mapper". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 25, 2011.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Explanation For Category Restructuring". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on December 3, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
  5. ^ "2011 – 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: American Roots Field". The Recording Academy. November 30, 2011. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  6. ^ List of 2013 nominees Archived February 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List". Billboard. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  8. ^ "List of Nominees 2015" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  9. ^ "Grammy Awards 2016: See the Full Winners List". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  10. ^ "59th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees". GRAMMY.com. Archived from the original on February 13, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  11. ^ Lynch, Joe (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  12. ^ Grammy.com, 7 December 2018 Archived December 7, 2018, at the Wayback Machine}
  13. ^ "Grammy Awards Nominations: The Complete List". Variety. November 20, 2019. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  14. ^ "2021 Nominations List". Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved November 26, 2020.

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