52nd Annual Grammy Predictions
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The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards will take place tonight, Sunday, January 31 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. CBS is broadcasting the event live beginning at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). It’s time for humble country music guide to go out on a ledge and give you my predictions for some of tonight’s major categories. It’s always fun to try to predict the Grammys because Grammy voters are a notoriously fickle bunch, and they really enjoy swimming upstream at times. I also wonder if Taylor Swift is going to be penalized for being nominated so much in both country and pop categories, which could see her votes being split. We’ll see. My predictions are in bold: Country Categories Best Female Country Vocal Performance Miranda Lambert – “Dead Flowers” Martina McBride – “I Call You Mine” Taylor Swift – “White Horse” Carrie Underwood – “Just a Dream” Lee Ann Womack – “Solitary Thinkin’” Best Male Country Vocal Performance Trace Adkins – “All I Ask for Anyone” Billy Currington – “People Are Crazy” Jamey Johnson – “High Cost of Living” George Straight – “Living for the Night” Keith Urban – “Sweet Thing” Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group Brooks and Dunn – “Cowboys Don’t Cry” Zac Brown Band – “Chicken Fried” Lady Antebellum – “I Run to You” Rascal Flatts – “Here Comes Goodbye” Sugarland – “It Happens” Best Country Collaboration with Vocals Dierks Bentley and Patty Griffin – “Beautiful World” Kenny Chesney and Mac McAnally – “Down the Road” Brad Paisley and Keith Urban – “Start a Band” Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis – “I Told You So” Lee Ann Womack and George Straight – “Everything but Quits” Best Country Instrumental Performance Alison Brown – “Under the (Five) Wire” The Green Cards – “The Crystal Merchant” Sarah Jarosz – “Mansinneedof” Steve Wariner – “Producer’s Medley” Best Country Song “All I Ask for Anyone” – Casey Beathard and Tim James, songwriters (Trace Adkins) “High Cost of Living” – Jamey Johnson and James Slater, songwriters (Jamey Johnson) “I Run to You” – Tom Douglas, Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum) “People Are Crazy” – Bobby Braddock and Troy Jones, songwriters (Billy Currington) “White Horse” – Liz Rose and Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift) Best Country Album The Foundation – Zac Brown Band Twang – George Strait Fearless – Taylor Swift Defying Gravity – Keith Urban Call Me Crazy – Lee Ann Womack Country Stars Nominated in Non-Country Categories Record of the Year Taylor Swift – “You Belong with Me” Beyonce – “Halo” The Black Eyed Peas – “I Got a Feeling” Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody” Lady Gaga – “Poker Face” Album of the Year Taylor Swift – Fearless Beyonce – I Am… Sasha Fierce The Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. Lady Gaga – The Fame Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King Song of the Year “You Belong with Me” – Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters “Poker Face” – Lady Gaga and RedOne, songwriters “Pretty Wings” – Hod David & Musze, songwriters “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” – Thaddis Harrell, Beyonce Knowles, Terius Nash and Christopher Stewart, songwriters “Use Somebody” – Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill and Nathan Followill, songwriters Best New Artist Zac Brown Band Keri Hilson MGMT Silversun Pickups The Ting Tings Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Taylor Swift – “You Belong with Me” Adele – “Hometown Glory” Beyonce – “Halo” Katy Perry – “Hot N Cold” Pink – “Sober” Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Rosanne Cash and Bruce Springsteen – “Sea of Heartbreak” Willie Nelson and Norah Jones – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Taylor Swift and Colbie Caillat – “Breathe” Ciara and Justin Timberlake – “Love Sex Magic” Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat – “Lucky” Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Willie Nelson – American Classic Tony Bennett – A Swingin’ Christmas Michael Buble – Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden Harry Connick, Jr
After Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson was the most popular male country singer of the '90s. An heir to the new traditionalist movement of the '80s, Jackson's approach was rooted in classic honky tonk yet remained comfortably within the contemporary mainstream. Jackson's hallmark was consistency -- he wrote many of his own hits, and his way with a hook was part of the reason he never really hit a commercial dry spell, even into the new millennium.
