A2IM Nominees for the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards:
Record of the Year: Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (Big Machine)
Album of the Year: Alabama Shakes ‘Sound & Color’ (ATO), Taylor Swift ‘1989’
(Big Machine)
Song of the Year: Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (Big Machine)
Best New Artist: Courtney Barnett (Mom + Pop)
Best Pop Solo Performance: Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (Big Machine)
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar “Bad
Blood” (Big Machine)
Best Pop Vocal Album: Taylor Swift ‘1989’ (Big Machine), James Taylor ‘Before
This World’ (Concord)
Best Dance Recording: Above & Beyond "We're All We Need" (Ultra), Flying Lotus
featuring Kendrick Lamar "Never Catch Me" (Warp)
Best Dance/Electronic Album: Caribou "Our Love" (Merge), Jamie XX "In Colour"
(Young Turks)
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Kirk Whalum 'The Gospel According to
Jazz, Chapter IV’ (Mack Avenue)
Best Rock Performance: Alabama Shakes "Don't Wanna Fight" (ATO)
Best Metal Performance: August Burns Red "Identity" (Fearless), Ghost "Cirice"
(Loma Vista)
Best Rock Song: Alabama Shakes "Don't Wanna Fight" (ATO), Highly Suspect
"Lydia" (300)
Best Rock Album: Highly Suspect 'Mister Asylum' (300)
Best Alternative Music Album: Alabama Shakes 'Sound & Color' (ATO), Wilco ‘Star
Wars’ (Anti)
Best Traditional R&B Performance: Faith Evens "He Is" (Prolific/BMG), Lalah
Hathaway "Little Ghetto Boy" (eOne)
Best Rap Performance: Fetty Wap "Trap Queen" (300)
Best Rap Song: Fetty Wap "Trap Queen" (300)
Best Solo Performance: Lee Ann Womack "Chances Are" (Sugar Hill)
Best Country Song: Lee Ann Womack "Chances Are" (Sugar Hill), Tim McGraw
"Diamond Rings and Old Barstools" (Big Machine)
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Joey Alexander "Giant Steps" (Motéma Music),
Christian McBride "Cherokee" (Mack Avenue)
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Karrin Allyson ‘Many a New Day’ (Motéma Music), Denise
Donatella ‘Find a Heart’ (Savant Records), Jamison Ross ‘Jamison’ (Concord Jazz),
Cécile McLorin Salvant ‘For One to Love’ (Mack Avenue)
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Joey Alexander ‘My Favorite Things’ (Motéma
Music), Jimmy Greene ‘Beautiful Life’ (Mack Avenue)
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Arturo O' Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
'Cuba: The Conversation Continues' (Motéma Music)
Best Latin Jazz Album: Eliane Elias 'Made in Brazil' (Concord Jazz)
Best Christian Contemporary Song: Francesca Battistelli 'Holy Spirit' (Curb)
Best Gospel Album: Karen Clark Sheard 'Destined to Win' (live) (eOne), Dorinda
Clark-Cole 'Living It' (eOne), Jonathan McReynolds 'Life Music: Stage Two' (eOne)
Best Roots Gospel Album: Point of Grace 'Directions Home' (Curb)
Best Regional Mexican Album: Mariachi Los Camperos De Nati Cano 'Tradicion,
Arte Y Pasion' (Smithsonian Folkways)
Best American Roots Performance: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn 'And Am I Born
to Die' (Rounder), The Milk Carton Kids 'City of Our Lady' (Anti), Mavis Staples 'See
That My Grave Is Kept Clean' (Anti)
Best American Roots Song: The Mavericks "All Night Long" (Valory/Big Machine),
Jason Isbell "24 Frames" (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers)
Best Americana Album: Brandi Carlile 'The Firewatcher's Daughter' (ATO), The
Mavericks 'Mono' (Valory/Big Machine), Jason Isbell "Something More Than Free"
(Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers)
Best Bluegrass Album: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley 'Before the Sun Goes Down'
(Compass), Ralph Stanley & Friends 'Man of Constant Sorrow' (Red River), The
Steeldrivers 'The Muscle Shoals Recordings' (Rounder)
Best Blues Album: Shemekia Copeland 'Outskirts of Love' (Alligator)
Best Folk Album: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn ‘Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn'
(Rounder), Patty Griffin 'Servant of Love' (PGM/Thirty Tigers), Glen Hansard
'Didn't He Ramble’ (Anti)
Best Reggae Album: Jah Cure 'The Cure' (VP Records)
Best World Music Album: Zomba Prison Project 'I Have No Everything Here' (Six
Degrees)
Best Children’s Album: José-Luis Orozco '¡Come Bien! Eat Right!' (Smithsonian
Folkways)
Best Comedy Album: Craig Ferguson ‘Just Being Honest’ (Lionsgate Records)
Best Musical Theater Album: 'Something Rotten' (Ghostlight)
Best Song Written for Visual Media: Glen Campbell “I'll Be Me” (Big Machine)
Best Instrumental Composition: Arturo O`Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa “The Afro Latin Jazz Suite” (Motéma Music), Bob
Mintzer Big Band “Civil War” (MCG Jazz)
Best Arrangement Instruments & Vocals: Jimmy Greene with Javier Colon 'When
I Come Home' (Mack Avenue)
Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Father John Misty 'I Love You,
Honeybear'(Limited Edition Deluxe Vinyl) (Sub Pop)
Best Album Notes: Lead Belly ‘Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection’
(Smithsonian Folkways)
Best Historical Album: Fannie Lou Hamer 'Songs my Mother Taught Me'
(Smithsonian Folkways)
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: James Taylor 'Before This World'
(Concord), The Bird & The Bee 'Recreational Love' (Rostrum Records), Alabama
Shakes 'Sound & Color' (ATO)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Tanja Tetzlaff, Christian
Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt “Brahms: The Piano Trios” (Ondine)
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Orion Weiss; Albany Symphony ‘Rouse: Seeing;
Kabir Padavali’ (Naxos)
Best Classical Compendium: Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley,
producer ‘Paulus: Three Places Of Enlightenment; Veil Of Tears & Grand Concerto’
(Naxos)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Giancarlo Guerrero, Cho-Liang Lin &
Nashville Symphony 'Tower: Stroke' (Naxos), Julian Wachner, the Choir of Trinity
Wall Street & Bang on a Can All-Stars 'Wolfe: Anthracite Fields' (Cantaloupe
Music)
Best Music Video: Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood” (Big
Machine)