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2012 Grammy nominations: Americana, folk and blues

The 2012 Grammy nominations are out, with the winners to be named on Feb. 12. The Americana music-related categories and nominees:

For Best Americana Album:
Emotional Jukebox -Linda Chorney
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down – Ry Cooder
Hard Bargain -Emmylou Harris
Ramble At The Ryman -Levon Helm
Blessed -Lucinda Williams

For Best Bluegrass Album
Paper Airplane- Alison Krauss & Union Station
Reason And Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs By Robert Hunter and Jim Lauderdale
– Jim Lauderdale
Rare Bird Alert -Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers
Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe – The Del McCoury Band
A Mother’s Prayer -Ralph Stanley
Sleep With One Eye Open – Chris Thile & Michael Daves

For Best Blues Album:
Low Country Blues – Gregg Allman
Roadside Attractions -Marcia Ball
Man In Motion – Warren Haynes
The Reflection – Keb Mo
Revelator – Tedeschi Trucks Band

For Best Folk Album
Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive -Steve Earle
Helplessness Blues- Fleet Foxes
Ukulele Songs – Eddie Vedder
The Harrow & The Harvest -Gillian Welch

For Best Children’s Album:
I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs Of Fox Hollow
(Various Artists) Eric Brace & Peter Cooper, producers

For Best Instrumental Composition
Life In Eleven – Béla Fleck & Howard Levy, composers (Béla Fleck & The Flecktones)

Goat Rodeo Sessions enter Americana Music Chart

Ryan Adams’s Ashes & Fire won’t budge from the top of the Americana Music Radio Chart, holding on to #1 for yet another week, followed by Robert Earl Keen’s Ready for Confetti and The Jayhawks’ Mocking Bird Time.

The big changes are all at the bottom of the chart, with The
Goat Rodeo Sessions
featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile, entering at #37. The Infamous Stringdusters are at #38 with We’ll Do It Live and the Milk Carton Kids enter the chart at #39 with Prologue.

Among the most added albums are Willie Nelson’s Remember Me
Vol 1
, with 14 new stations, and the Little Willies’ For the Good Times with 11 new stations. There’s a trend in there somewhere.