2013 Grammy Nominations

 Posted by at 6:56 am on December 6, 2012
Dec 062012
 

Best New Artist (All Genres)
Alabama Shakes
Fun.
Hunter Hayes
The Lumineers
Frank Ocean

Best Country Solo Performance
Dierks Bentley, ‘Home’
Eric Church, ‘Springsteen’
Ronnie Dunn, ‘Cost of Livin”
Hunter Hayes, ‘Wanted’
Blake Shelton, ‘Over’
Carrie Underwood, ‘Blown Away’

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Eli Young Band, ‘Even If It Breaks Your Heart’
Little Big Town, ‘Pontoon’
Taylor Swift and the Civil Wars, ‘Safe & Sound’
The Time Jumpers, ‘On the Outskirts of Town’
Don Williams (Feat. Alison Krauss), ‘I Just Come Here For the Music

Best Country Song
Carrie Underwood, ‘Blown Away’
Ronnie Dunn, ‘Cost of Livin”
Eli Young Band, ‘Even If It Breaks Your Heart’
Alan Jackson, ‘So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore’
Eric Church, ‘Springsteen’

Best Country Album
Zac Brown Band, ‘Uncaged
Hunter Hayes, ‘Hunter Hayes’
Jamey Johnson, ‘Living For a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran’
Miranda Lambert, ‘Four the Record’
The Time Jumpers, ‘The Time Jumpers’

Best Americana Album
The Avett Brothers, ‘The Carpenter’
John Fullbright, ‘From the Ground Up’
The Lumineers, ‘The Lumineers’
Mumford & Sons, ‘Babel’
Bonnie Raitt, ‘Slipstream’

Best Bluegrass Album
Dailey & Vincent, ‘The Gospel Side Of’
The Grascals, ‘Life Finds a Way’
Noam Pikelny, ‘Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail’
Special Consensus, ‘Scratch Gravel Road’
Steep Canyon Rangers, ‘Nobody Knows You’

Dec 042012
 

photo by Mike Carroll

On Friday it was announced that Carrie Underwood would be starring as Maria von Trapp in a live broadcast of “The Sound of Music” next year on NBC.  Maria von Trapp, played by Julie Andrews in the original movie, is the main character of the film.  The live broadcast starring Underwood will be a three-hour event based on the original Broadway musical near the holidays in 2013.