Foo Fighters continue to impress with their live show. Nice touch with the orchestra:
Here are the Major category winners from last nights Grammy Awards (winners in Bold):
Record Of The Year
(Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.)Irreplaceable
Beyoncé
Beyoncé Knowles, S. Smith & Stargate, producers; Jim Caruana, Jason Goldstein & Geoff Rice, engineers/mixers
Track from: B’Day
[Sony Urban Music/Columbia/Music World Productions]
The Pretender
Foo Fighters
Gil Norton, producer; Adrian Bushby & Rich Costey, engineers/mixers
[Roswell/RCA Records]
Umbrella
Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z
Kuk Harrell, Terius “The Dream” Nash & C. “Tricky” Stewart, producers; Kuk Harrell & Manny Marroquin, engineers/mixers
Track from: Good Girl Gone Bad
[Def Jam]
What Goes Around…Comes Around
Justin Timberlake
Nate (Danja) Hills, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass & Timbaland, engineers/mixers
[Jive/Zomba]
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Mark Ronson, producer; Tom Elmhirst, Vaughan Merrick, Dom Morley, Mark Ronson & Gabriel Roth, engineers/mixers
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records]Category 2
Album Of The Year
(Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s)/Mixer(s) & Mastering Engineer(s), if other than the artist.)Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters
Gil Norton, producer; Adrian Bushby & Rich Costey, engineers/mixers; Brian Gardner, mastering engineer
[Roswell/RCA Records]
These Days
Vince Gill
John Anderson, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Diana Krall & The Del McCoury Band, featured artists; Vince Gill, John Hobbs & Justin Niebank, producers; Neal Cappellino & Justin Niebank, engineers/mixers; Adam Ayan, mastering engineer
[MCA Nashville]
River: The Joni Letters
Herbie Hancock
Leonard Cohen, Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza & Tina Turner, featured artists; Herbie Hancock & Larry Klein, producers; Helik Hadar, engineer/mixer; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer
[Verve]
Graduation
Kanye West
Dwele, Lil Wayne, Mos Def & T-Pain, featured artists; Warryn “Baby Dubb” Campbell, Mike Dean, Eric Hudson, Brian “Allday” Miller, Nottz, Patrick “Plain Pat” Reynolds, Gee Roberson, Toomp & Kanye West, producers; Craig Bauer, Bruce Buechner, Andrew Dawson, Mike Dean, Anthony Kilhoffer, Greg Koller, Manny Marroquin, Nottz Raw, Tony Rey, Seiji Sekine, Paul Sheehy & D. Sloan, engineers/mixers; Vlado Meller, mastering engineer
[Roc-A-Fella Records]
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
Mark Ronson & Salaam Remi, producers; Tom Elmhirst, Vaughan Merrick, Dom Morley, Gary Noble, Derek Pacuk, Matt Paul, Mark Ronson, Gabriel Roth & Franklin Socorro, engineers/mixers; Stuart Hawkes, mastering engineer
[Universal Republic Records]Category 3
Song Of The Year
(A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)Before He Cheats
Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)
Track from: Some Hearts
[19 Recordings/Arista Nashville; Publishers: Big Loud Shirt Industries, Mighty Underdog Music/Sony/ATV Cross Keys]
Hey There Delilah
Tom Higgenson, songwriter (Plain White T’s)
Track from: Every Second Counts
[Hollywood Records/Fearless Records; Publisher: So Happy Publishing]
Like A Star
Corinne Bailey Rae, songwriter (Corinne Bailey Rae)
Track from: Corinne Bailey Rae
[Capitol Records; Publisher: Global Talent Publishing]
Rehab
Amy Winehouse, songwriter (Amy Winehouse)
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records; Publisher: EMI Music Publishing]
Umbrella
Shawn Carter, Kuk Harrell, Terius “Dream” Nash & Christopher Stewart,
songwriters (Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z)
Track from: Good Girl Gone Bad
[Def Jam; Publisher: Peer Music]Category 4
Best New Artist
(For a new artist who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording which establishes the public identity of that artist.)Feist
Ledisi
Paramore
Taylor Swift
Amy Winehouse
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Category 5
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)Candyman
Christina Aguilera
[RCA Records]
1234
Feist
Track from: The Reminder
[Cherry Tree / Interscope Records]
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Fergie
Track from: The Dutchess
[A&M Records]
Say It Right
Nelly Furtado
Track from: Loose
[Geffen]
Rehab
Amy Winehouse
Track from: Back To Black
[Universal Republic Records]Category 6
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only.)Everything
Michael Bublé
Track from: Call Me Irresponsible
[143 Records/Reprise]
Belief
John Mayer
Track from: The Village Sessions
[Columbia/Aware]
Dance Tonight
Paul McCartney
Track from: Memory Almost Full
[MPL/Hear Music]
Amazing
Seal
[Warner Bros.]
What Goes Around…Comes Around
Justin Timberlake
[Jive]Category 7
Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
(For established duos or groups, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)(You Want To) Make A Memory
Bon Jovi
Track from: Lost Highway
[Island/Mercury]
Home
Daughtry
[RCA Records/19 Recordings]
Makes Me Wonder
Maroon 5
Track from: It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
[Octone/A&M Records]
Hey There Delilah
Plain White T’s
Track from: Every Second Counts
[Hollywood Records]
Window In The Skies
U2
Track from: U218 - Singles
[Interscope Records]Category 8
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
(For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.)Steppin’ Out
Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera
Track from: Duets: An American Classic
[Columbia]
Beautiful Liar
Beyoncé & Shakira
Track from: B’Day (Deluxe Edition)
[Columbia/Sony Urban]
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
[Rounder Records]
The Sweet Escape
Gwen Stefani & Akon
Track from: The Sweet Escape
[Interscope Records]
Give It To Me
Timbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake
Track from: Timbaland Presents: Shock Value
[Mosley/Blackground/Interscope Records]Category 9
Best Pop Instrumental Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)Off The Grid
Beastie Boys
Track from: The Mix-Up
[Capitol Records]
Paris Sunrise #7
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Track from: Lifeline
[Virgin Records]
Over The Rainbow
Dave Koz
Track from: At The Movies
[Capitol Records]
One Week Last Summer
Joni Mitchell
Track from: Shine
[Hear Music]
Simple Pleasures
Spyro Gyra
Track from: Good To Go-Go
[Heads Up International]Category 10
Best Pop Instrumental Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.)The Mix-Up
Beastie Boys
[Capitol Records]
Italia
Chris Botti
[Columbia]
At The Movies
Dave Koz
[Capitol/EMI]
Good To Go-Go
Spyro Gyra
[Heads Up International]
Roundtrip
Kirk Whalum
[Rendezvous Entertainment]Category 11
Best Pop Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)Lost Highway
Bon Jovi
[Island/Mercury]
The Reminder
Feist
[Cherry Tree/Interscope Records]
It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
Maroon 5
[Octone/A&M Records]
Memory Almost Full
Paul McCartney
[MPL/Hear Music]
Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
[Universal Republic Records]
Rock and Roll started with the Blues. The Blues has influenced and inspired rock artists through the years. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a Blues star in his own right, traveled the south with a documentary film crew and a portable recording studio to capture several veteran blues players on their home turf. The resulting album and film, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads, has been nominated for two Grammy Awards (Best Traditional Blues Album and Best Long Form Music Video) and is touted as “…a blues fan’s dream…” The album and film features Blues greats; B.B. King, Etta Baker, Gatemouth Brown, and many others whose music has shaped today’s music culture.
Check out the trailer for 10 Days Out here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eseBs8SXhmw
Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s critically acclaimed CD/DVD Ten Days Out: Blues From The Backroads (Warner Bros./Reprise Records) has been nominated for two 2008 Grammy Awards—“Best Traditional Blues Album” and “Best Long Form Music Video.” The awards will be telecast from Los Angeles February 10 on CBS. In addition to the Recording Academy’s recognition, The Blues Foundation will honor Shepherd’s album and accompanying documentary with the prestigious “Keeping the Blues Alive” award for Film, Television or Video. The ceremony will take place on February 2, 2008 in Memphis, TN. The documentary is also nominated for “Best DVD” at the 2008 Blues Music Awards, which will take place in Mississippi on May 8. Shepherd will also be playing at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25th at Harry O’s in Park City, Utah with special guest, Hubert Sumlin.
The #1 Album on Billboard’s Top Blues Albums chart for 2007, Ten Days Out: Blues >From The Backroads chronicles the journey of renowned blues and rock guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd—along with a film crew, a portable recording studio and producer Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads)—through a ten-day journey into the heart of the American South. USA Today heralds the resulting documentary and accompanying live CD as “…a blues fan’s dream…,” while Billboard Magazine writes, “Kenny Wayne Shepherd passed for an old blues soul when he was just 18 and released his first album…So it shouldn’t be surprising that, at 29, he can hang convincingly with some real old blues souls…”
Directed by Noble Jones, Ten Days Out captures the stories of some of America’s best-known blues artists including B.B. King, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and Honeyboy Edwards as well as some of the genre’s lesser-known talents. Shepherd is joined by longtime collaborator and vocalist Noah Hunt as well as friends Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon who make up the esteemed rhythm section Double Trouble (Stevie Ray Vaughan’s longtime band). Shepherd and his team immersed themselves in the environments, which shaped these essential blues musicians, talking, recording and performing in kitchens, living rooms, front porches and local clubs. The goal was to get to know these amazing artists and to produce intimate recordings in intimate settings maintaining authenticity—no overdubs were used. “What happened is what you hear,” says Shepherd, “We kept it as real as possible.” This historic trip culminated in a once in a life time performance at a church in Salina, Kansas where Shepherd and friends were joined by the remaining members of Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters’ bands at the aptly named Church at Blue Heaven Studios.
“A project like this, with all these great people, it’s not about me—it’s about the music,” says Shepherd, “and about the people who inspired me to pick up an instrument and make music. You’ve got to listen to what they sing or write about, and you’ll hear the people behind the music, the players behind the blues. And that’s what the blues is about—the lives these people led, and that we are living today.”
Since the making of Ten Days Out: Blues From The Backroads six of the featured musicians—Etta Baker, Henry Townsend, Wild Child Butler, Neal Pattman, Cootie Stark, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown—have passed away, sealing the documentary’s fate as an important historical work in the tradition of Alan Lomax’s The Land Where Blues Began. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern musical traditions gain recognition and meet their day-to-day needs.
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