Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance

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Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
Awarded forquality of male vocal performance in country music.
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1965
Last awarded2011
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance was awarded between 1965 and 2011. The award has had several minor name changes:

  • From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male
  • In 1968 it was awarded as Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male
  • From 1969 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
  • From 1995 to 2011 it was awarded as Best Male Country Vocal Performance

The award was discontinued after the 2011 awards season in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012, all solo performances (male, female and instrumental) in the country category will be shifted to the newly formed Best Country Solo Performance category.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Category facts[]

  • Most Wins in Category
Rank 1st 2nd 3rd
Artist Vince Gill Ronnie Milsap Johnny Cash and Keith Urban[1]
Total Wins 9 wins 5 wins 4 wins[1]

1960s[]

Year Artist Work Nominees
1965 Roger Miller "Dang Me"
  • Bobby Bare – "Four Strong Winds"
  • Johnny Cash – "I Walk the Line"
  • George Hamilton IV – Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston
  • Sonny James – You're the Only World I Know
  • Hank Locklin – Hank Locklin Sings Hank Williams
  • Buck Owens – "My Heart Skips a Beat"
1966 Roger Miller "King of the Road"
1967 David Houston "Almost Persuaded"
  • Ben Colder – "Almost Persuaded No. 2"
  • Jack Greene – "There Goes My Everything"
  • Charley Pride – "Just Between You and Me"
  • Jim Reeves – "Distant Drums"
1968 Glen Campbell "Gentle on My Mind"
  • Jim Ed Brown – "Pop a Top"
  • Jack Greene – "All the Time"
  • Charley Pride – "Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger"
  • Porter Wagoner – "The Cold Hard Facts of Life"
1969 Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues"
  • Glen Campbell – "I Wanna Live"
  • Henson Cargill – "Skip a Rope"
  • Roger Miller – "Little Green Apples"
  • Porter Wagoner – "The Carroll County Accident"

1970s[]

Year Artist Work Nominees
1970 Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue"
1971 Ray Price "For the Good Times"
  • Johnny Cash – "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"
  • Merle Haggard – Okie from Muskogee
  • Charley Pride – Charley Pride's 10th Album
  • Jerry Reed – "Amos Moses"
1972 Jerry Reed "When You're Hot, You're Hot"
1973 Charley Pride Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs
  • Merle Haggard – "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)"
  • Waylon Jennings – "Good Hearted Woman"
  • Jerry Lee Lewis – "Chantilly Lace"
  • Charlie Rich – "I Take It on Home"
1974 Charlie Rich "Behind Closed Doors"
  • Tom T. Hall – "(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine"
  • Kris Kristofferson – "Why Me"
  • Charley Pride – "Amazing Love"
  • Johnny Russell – "Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer"
1975 Ronnie Milsap "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
1976 Willie Nelson "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
  • Glen Campbell – "Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.)"
  • John Denver – "Thank God I'm a Country Boy"
  • Freddy Fender – "Before the Next Teardrop Falls"
  • Waylon Jennings – "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"
  • Ray Stevens – "Misty"
1977 Ronnie Milsap "(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man"
  • Mac Davis – "Forever Lovers"
  • Larry Gatlin – "Broken Lady"
  • Waylon Jennings – "Are You Ready for the Country"
  • Willie Nelson – "I'd Have to Be Crazy"
1978 Kenny Rogers "Lucille"
  • Larry Gatlin – "I Don't Wanna Cry"
  • Waylon Jennings – "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)"
  • Ronnie Milsap – "It Was Almost Like a Song"
  • Jerry Jeff Walker – "Mr. Bojangles"
1979 Willie Nelson "Georgia on My Mind"

1980s[]

Year Artist Work Nominees
1980 Kenny Rogers "The Gambler"
  • Willie Nelson – "Whiskey River"
  • Charley Pride – "Burgers and Fries/When I Stop Leavin' (I'll Be Gone)"
  • Eddie Rabbitt – "Every Which Way but Loose"
  • Hank Williams Jr. – "Family Tradition"
1981 George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
1982 Ronnie Milsap "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me"
1983 Willie Nelson "Always on My Mind"
  • Ronnie Milsap – "He Got You"
  • Jerry Reed – "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)"
  • Kenny Rogers – "Love Will Turn You Around"
  • Ricky Skaggs – "Heartbroke"
1984 Lee Greenwood "I.O.U."
  • Ray Charles – "Born to Love Me"
  • Earl Thomas Conley – "Holding Her and Loving You"
  • Vern Gosdin – "If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)"
  • Ronnie Milsap – "Stranger in My House"
  • Kenny Rogers – "All My Life"
1985 Merle Haggard "That's the Way Love Goes"
  • Lee Greenwood – "God Bless the USA"
  • Willie Nelson – "City of New Orleans"
  • Ricky Skaggs – "Country Boy"
  • Hank Williams Jr. – "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"
1986 Ronnie Milsap "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)"
1987 Ronnie Milsap Lost in the Fifties Tonight
1988 Randy Travis Always & Forever
1989 Randy Travis "Old 8x10"
  • Rodney Crowell – "Diamonds & Dirt
  • Lyle Lovett – "Pontiac"
  • Dan Seals – "Addicted"
  • Dwight Yoakam – "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room"

1990s[]

Year Artist Work Nominees
1990 Lyle Lovett Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
1991 Vince Gill "When I Call Your Name"
  • Garth Brooks – "Friends In Low Places"
  • Doug Stone – "I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box)"
  • Randy Travis – "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart"
  • Dwight Yoakam – "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose"
1992 Garth Brooks Ropin' the Wind
1993 Vince Gill "I Still Believe in You"
  • Garth Brooks – The Chase
  • Billy Ray Cyrus – "Achy Breaky Heart"
  • Randy Travis – "Better Class of Losers"
  • Travis Tritt – "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man"
1994 Dwight Yoakam "Ain't That Lonely Yet"
1995 Vince Gill "When Love Finds You"
  • David Ball – "Thinkin' Problem"
  • John Berry – "Your Love Amazes Me"
  • John Michael Montgomery – "I Swear"
  • Dwight Yoakam – "Pocket of a Clown"
1996 Vince Gill "Go Rest High on That Mountain"
  • John Berry – "Standing on the Edge of Goodbye"
  • Alan Jackson – "Gone Country"
  • John Michael Montgomery – "I Can Love You Like That"
  • Dwight Yoakam – "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
1997 Vince Gill "Worlds Apart"
  • Clint Black – "Like the Rain"
  • Junior Brown – "My Wife Thinks You're Dead"
  • Lyle Lovett – "Private Conversation"
  • Dwight Yoakam – "Nothing"
1998 Vince Gill "Pretty Little Adriana"
  • Clint Black – "Something That We Do"
  • Johnny Cash – "Rusty Cage"
  • Willie Nelson – "Peach Pickin' Time Down In Georgia"
  • George Strait – "Carrying Your Love with Me"
1999 Vince Gill "If You Ever Have Forever in Mind"
  • Clint Black – "Nothin' but the Taillights"
  • Garth Brooks – "To Make You Feel My Love"
  • Steve Wariner – "Holes in the Floor of Heaven"

2000s[]

Year Artist Work Nominees
2000 George Jones "Choices"
  • Vince Gill – "Don't Come Cryin' to Me"
  • Lyle Lovett – "That's Right (You're Not from Texas)"
  • Tim McGraw – "Please Remember Me"
  • Dwight Yoakam – "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
2001 Johnny Cash "Solitary Man"
  • Vince Gill – "Feels Like Love"
  • Billy Gilman – "One Voice"
  • Tim McGraw – "My Best Friend"
  • Dwight Yoakam – "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
2002 Ralph Stanley "O Death"
  • Ryan Adams – "Lovesick Blues"
  • Johnny Cash – "I Dreamed About Mama Last Night"
  • Lyle Lovett – "San Antonio Girl"
  • Tim McGraw – "Grown Men Don't Cry"
  • Willie Nelson – "Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)"
2003 Johnny Cash "Give My Love to Rose"
  • Pat Green – "Three Days"
  • Alan Jackson – "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
  • Joe Nichols – "The Impossible"
  • Brad Paisley – "I'm Gonna Miss Her"
2004 Vince Gill "Next Big Thing"
2005 Tim McGraw "Live Like You Were Dying"
2006 Keith Urban[1] "You'll Think of Me"
  • George Jones – "Funny How Time Slips Away"
  • Toby Keith – "As Good as I Once Was"
  • Delbert McClinton – "Midnight Communion"
  • Willie Nelson – "Good Ol' Boys"
  • Brad Paisley – "Alcohol"
2007 Vince Gill "The Reason Why"
  • Dierks Bentley – "Every Mile a Memory"
  • George Strait – "The Seashores of Old Mexico"
  • Josh Turner – "Would You Go with Me"
  • Keith Urban – "Once in a Lifetime"
2008 Keith Urban[1] "Stupid Boy"
2009 Brad Paisley "Letter to Me"

2010s[]

Year Artist Work Nominees
2010 Keith Urban[1] "Sweet Thing"
  • Trace Adkins – "All I Ask for Anymore"
  • Billy Currington – "People Are Crazy"
  • Jamey Johnson – "High Cost of Living"
  • George Strait – "Living for the Night"
2011 Keith Urban[2][1] "'Til Summer Comes Around"

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Kristobak, Ryan (2014-01-26). "Keith Urban Grammys Performance: Country Star Sings 'Cop Car' With Gary Clark Jr". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  2. ^ Tucker, Ken (13 February 2011). "Lady Antebellum Tops Grammys". Country Weekly. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
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