Alison Krauss Still the Top Female Grammy Leader

Country was very well-represented last night. While the amazing Plant/Krauss album crosses many genres, Krauss’s bluegrass roots allowed country to call it its own. It’s one of my favorite albums in my collection- and it’s pretty amazing that Krauss continues her career Grammy haul with more Grammy’s than any female in history.

I thought it interesting the difference between the country performances there and the last couple of country award shows (CMA’s come to mind.) The performances were more understated and rooted in the music instead of rooted in the showmanship. It was a nice change of pace.

Yes, Carrie’s performance of “My Last Name” was “understated and rooted in the music.”

Nice to see Grammy love for Plant/Krauss. Hopefully, this will cause country radio to look more closely at the Americana format and realize that there is a fanbase for this kind of music.

Just kidding. Actually, country radio will fall all over themselves talking about the wins for Sugarland, Brad Paisley and George Strait and forget about all the rest. Actually, after her duet with Sugarland on “Chasing Pavements”, Adele has a better chance of getting played on country radio than Alison Krauss.

Also, Carrie Underwood was slightly more country than the Rap Pack last night, but not by much. And Taylor Swift got outsung by Miley Cyrus. Such is the future of this genre of music.

Were we watching the same Miley/Swift duet? I saw one of Swift’s better live vocals and Cyrus’ typical pushing.

I am honeslty proud of country music and how it was represented last night. Everyone has their own opinions but i think that every part of country music was well shown. Carrie Underwood Rocked, Kenny Chesney showed class, Taylor showed of her writing abilities, Plant&Krauss sang great together and Keith Urban and Sugarland were great. I am proud of all the winners and I think that they all deserved to win

Jennifer wasn’t the only one. Santonio Holmes is the Super Bowl MVP and he didn’t want anything to do with Jamey either. Jamey looked like a boxer right before a fight, pacing around unable to stand still. For those of us who like are stars pissed off it was perfect.

I will never understand whiy these awards shows go the way they do. Do the voters not listen to any of the records or do they just not listen to the country records?

I agree with Jim that Taylor performed better than she usually does.

George Strait was the first artist I ever bought a tape of when I was a kid. I have more CDs of his than I have of any other artist and have defended him from the late 80s through the Garth era and up through today, but he did not have the best album this year.

What gDigss said.

Darn, The Grammy Awards have become as meaningless as the CMA’s, ACM’s, and CMT Awards shows as far as the commercial country categories go. I will never understand why the Grammy voters go gawgaw over Alison Krauss to the extent they do. She’s like catnip to those people. Yawn…..

Jamey Johnson made comments recently that he loved how George Jones seemed to re-experience the deep emotion of each song while he sang it. If Jamey’s doing the same thing maybe he puts himself in the mindset he had when he wrote “The Cost of Living High”. Either that or dealing with Hollywood types at the Leno show taping was a bit too much for a down home country boy.

That Ray Price interview sounds really interesting. I’ve heard Eddie Stubbs interview Ray on WSM and when they get to talking about the current state of modern/young country music (ie pop-rock crapola) Ray gets really fired up. Its a joyous thing to behold. (lol)

“I will never understand why the Grammy voters go gawgaw over Alison Krauss to the extent they do. She’s like catnip to those people. Yawn…..”

It might have something to do with her immense talent and her ability to push limits and boundaries. Just because YOU don’t like someone, doesn’t mean they’re not good.

Speaking of Jamey Johnson, check out the CMT blog about his “Anti-Valentine’s Day E-Cards”. What a scream!
Link: http://blog.cmt.com/2009-02-09/jamey-johnson-loves-to-hate-valentines-day/

And it appears Toby Keith is getting jealous of Jamey being the new outlaw in Nashville and has decided to demonstrate his bona-fides:
Link: http://blog.cmt.com/2009-02-09/dont-mess-with-toby-keith/

And here I thought it was a slow news day……

“Was Carrie’s lead guitarist a female or male in drag, last night?”

Looks like a girl to me…LOL!
http://www.myspace.com/orianthi

I admit I didn’t like the Grammy’s choices for country awards either. I wonder if they get a list of the CMA winners to help them vote- like a cheat sheet. Obviously, they didn’t listen to one of those performances nominated or they wouldn’t have chose who they did. I’m a Carrie fan but I have always hated that song. It’s the most annoying song on her CD. I guess “the team” knew it needed help and with the Grammy’s need to have performers of different genres perform together.. got Orianthi, the 21 year old guitar prodigy from Australia to play with her. For the first time ever, I was straining to hear Carrie as the volume of the band was turned up “rock” loud. IF Carrie is asked again to perform next year (not too likely), I am begging and praying that she does a nice, soft beautiful pure country song. Surely, she knows by now that the transformation into a rock/pop diva at the Grammys is just not working.

Never a fan of Taylor’s singing but more in awe of her young songwriting ability, I have to give her kudos for her performance last night. It was a nice performance and Miley just seemed to be forcing her pop style on it, which made it seem very awkward. It would have been better for Miley to just sing the song straight. But also, their voices do not sound good together. at all.

Being an old “Beatles” fan, I enjoyed Sir Paul’s performance of “I Saw Her Standing There”.

I also enjoyed Kenny Chesney for once. Jennifer Nettles is always good but..I guess “Stay” is getting to the point of overkill for me.

PS: Thanks!! I received the CD’s today from the Christmas contest!

“Granny nominated song”

“Granny”…Freudian slip LOL!

NorthTexas, thanks. Yeah I knew she sings whatever song is nominated, but I always hope. “Just a Dream” will be a much better song for next year..if she’s invited again to perform.

vicki, some carrie fan you are. Carrie was voted by la times, ny times, spin magazine, et, among the top 2 performers of the night. Some people need to dig yourselfs out your hole and really listen.

Carrie was the highlight of the night. I hope she goes down this path: As ny times said, “she was on fire and not stopping”.

Anna, you can be a Carrie fan without liking everything she sings.

They probably rocked up the performance because 19 wanted to showcase the excellent girl guitar player who just happens to have an album about to come out. I very much enjoyed the performance. I think Carrie Underwood is amazing.

Tsharky Taylor sounded a lot better than miley on their performance. Sometimes i think people will hate Taylor no matter what she does.

The performance was great..Carrie gives nothing less.
I guess what I’m saying is she won for “Female Vocal COUNTRY Performance” on that song “Last Name”.

Now the other choices for “Country” performance:
Yearwood’s “This is Me Your Talking To”; Womack’s “Last Call”; Rimes, “What I Cannot Change” and McBride’s “For These Times”.

Then Carrie goes out and showcases her “Country” win with a true ROCK, loud version of “Last Name”. Where’s the “Country”?

I admit when I saw the nominees for all the Grammy Country categories, I was impressed. The Grammy’s got it right. But…

Maybe it’s just me and that song as well. Country has always been about the well written song..

Ok…I’m done on this subject. Sorry.