Grammy Winners 2022 – Roots Music Categories

Posted on Apr 5, 2022 in Lists and Bests

Grammy Winners Roots Music 2022

Grammy Awards 2022

Winners – Selected Categories

The Grammys, eh?

Eighty six categories?

Bigger than Ben Hur?

Relevance to the music featured in this corner of the World Wide Web?

The nominees were announced just before I went on a trip with friends to a former goldfield region, circa 1850. The first outing since months of COVID lockdowns, it was a joy and inspiring – so maybe it’s time to go down to the river of music and pan for some good stuff.

Sift out Best Solo Pop Performance, Best Metal Performance, Best Melodic Rap Performance, Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song, Best Música Urbana Album, Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano), Best Children’s Music Album, Best Recording Package, Best Remixed Recording, Best Immersive Audio Album, Best Classical Compendium, Best Contemporary Classical Composition and a few others and it’s starting to show some real nuggets.

Music that speaks to us.

Now the heavy sifting have been done, we can reveal the winners in the important categories.

Winners in Bold

Best Country Solo Performance

• Forever After All
  Luke Combs
   
• Remember Her Name
  Mickey Guyton
   
• All I Do Is Drive
  Jason Isbell
   
• camera roll
  Kacey Musgraves
   
• You Should Probably Leave
  Chris Stapleton

Best Country Song

• Better Than We Found It
  Jessie Jo Dillon, Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins & Laura Veltz, songwriters (Maren Morris)
   
• camera roll
  Ian Fitchuk, Kacey Musgraves & Daniel Tashian, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
   
• Cold
  Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)
   
• Country Again
  Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley & Thomas Rhett, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)
   
• Fancy Like
  Cameron Bartolini, Walker Hayes, Josh Jenkins & Shane Stevens, songwriters (Walker Hayes)

Best Country Album

• Skeletons
  Brothers Osborne
   
• Remember Her Name
  Mickey Guyton
   
• The Marfa Tapes
  Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall & Jack Ingram
   
• The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita
  Sturgill Simpson
   
• Starting Over
  Chris Stapleton

Best American Roots Performance

• Cry
  Jon Batiste
   
• Love And Regret
  Billy Strings
   
• I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
  The Blind Boys Of Alabama & Béla Fleck
   
• Same Devil
  Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile
   
• Nightflyer
  Allison Russell

Best American Roots Song

• Avalon
  Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson & Francesco Turrisi, songwriters (Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi)
   
• Call Me A Fool
  Valerie June, songwriter (Valerie June Featuring Carla Thomas)
   
• Cry
  Jon Batiste & Steve McEwan, songwriters (Jon Batiste)
   
• Diamond Studded Shoes
  Dan Auerbach, Natalie Hemby, Aaron Lee Tasjan & Yola, songwriters (Yola)
   
• Nightflyer
  Jeremy Lindsay & Allison Russell, songwriters (Allison Russell)

Best Americana Album

• Downhill From Everywhere
  Jackson Browne
   
• Leftover Feelings
  John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band
   
• Native Sons
  Los Lobos
   
• Outside Child
  Allison Russell
   
• Stand For Myself
  Yola

Best Bluegrass Album

• Renewal
  Billy Strings
   
• My Bluegrass Heart
  Béla Fleck
   
• A Tribute To Bill Monroe
  The Infamous Stringdusters
   
• Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
  Sturgill Simpson
   
• Music Is What I See
  Rhonda Vincent

Best Traditional Blues Album

• 100 Years Of Blues
  Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite
   
• Traveler’s Blues
  Blues Traveler
   
• I Be Trying
  Cedric Burnside
   
• Be Ready When I Call You
  Guy Davis
   
• Take Me Back
  Kim Wilson

Best Contemporary Blues Album

• Delta Kream
  The Black Keys Featuring Eric Deaton & Kenny Brown
   
• Royal Tea
  Joe Bonamassa
   
• Uncivil War
  Shemekia Copeland
   
• Fire It Up
  Steve Cropper
   
• 662
  Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Best Folk Album

• One Night Lonely [Live]
  Mary Chapin Carpenter
   
• Long Violent History
  Tyler Childers
   
• Wednesday (Extended Edition)
  Madison Cunningham
   
• They’re Calling Me Home
  Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi
   
• Blue Heron Suite
  Sarah Jarosz

Best Regional Roots Music Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new vocal or instrumental regional roots music recordings.

• Live In New Orleans!
  Sean Ardoin And Kreole Rock And Soul
   
• Bloodstains & Teardrops
  Big Chief Monk Boudreaux
   
• My People
  Cha Wa
   
• Corey Ledet Zydeco
  Corey Ledet Zydeco
   
• Kau Ka Pe’a
  Kalani Pe’a

FULL LIST HERE

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Grammy Winners Roots Music 2022