Texans nominated for Grammys

The Recording Academy announced nominations Monday for the 58th Annual Grammy

Sarah Dodds, Shauna Dodds & Dick Reeves projects

Awards, reflecting a diverse blend of talented music makers as determined by The Academy’s voting membership.

Twenty-six (26) Texas artists were nominated for 27 different awards. Listed in alphabetical order:

Dean Blackwood (Austin area)

• Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package (with Susan Archie & Jack White) for The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-32)

Leon Bridges (Fort Worth)

• Best R&B Album for Coming Home

Hayes Carll  (The Woodlands)

Hayes Carll

• Best Country Song for Chances Are performed by Lee Ann Womack

Kelly Clarkson (Fort Worth)

• Best Pop Solo Performance for Heartbeat Song
• Best Pop Vocal Album for Piece By Piece

Crowder (Unknown)

• Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for Lift Your Head Weary Sinner (Chains)

Rodney Crowell (Crosby)

• Best Americana Roots Song (with Cory Chisel & Emmylou Harris) for The Traveling Kind performed by Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris
• Best Americana Album (with Emmylou Harris) for The Traveling Kind

Rich DeRosa (Denton)

• Best Instrumental Composition for Neil performed by the University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band

Sarah Dodds, Shauna Dodds & Dick Reeves (Austin)

• Best Recording Package for Still the King: Celebrating The Music of Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys by Asleep At The Wheel

Kirk Franklin (Fort Worth)

• Best Gospel Performance/Song for Wanna Be Happy?

Robert Glasper & The Robert Glasper Trio (Houston)

• Best Jazz Instrumental Album for Covered: Recorded Live at Capitol Studios

Patty Griffin (Austin)

• Best Folk Album for Servant of Love

Don Henley ·(Gilmer/Linden/Dallas)

Don Henley

• Best American Roots Song (with Stan Lynch) for The Cost of Living performed by Don Henley and Merle Haggard

Israel & New Breed Featuring Yolanda Adams (Unknown)

• Best Gospel Performance/Song for How Awesome Is Our God (Live)
• Best Gospel Album for Covered: Alive In Asia (Live)

Craig Hella Johnson (Austin area)

• Best Choral Performance for Pablo Neruda – The Poet Sings performed by Conspirare

La Maquinaria Norteña (Unknown)

• Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano) for Ya Dime Adios

Kacey Musgraves (Golden)

• Best Country Album for Pageant Material

Pentatonix (Arlington)

• Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Liz Rose (Dallas/Irvng)

• Song of the Year (with Hillary Lindsey & Lori McKenna) for Girl Crush performed by Little Big Town
• Best Country Song (with Hillary Lindsey & Lori McKenna) for Girl Crush performed by Little Big Town

Snarky Puppy (Denton)

• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (with Metropole Orkest) for Sylva

Chris Tomlin (Grand Saline)

• Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for Love Ran Red

Kirk Whalum (Texas Southern University)

• Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for The Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter IV

Brian Courtney Wilson (Houston)

• Best Gospel Performance/Song for Worth Fighting For (Live)

Lee Ann Womack (Jacksonville/Levelland)

• Best Country Solo Performance for Chances Are

Additional Award Notes Concerning Texans:

• Jeff Place is nominated for Best Album Notes for his work on Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection featuring the works of Texas Folk and Blues artist Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter.

• Blanton Alspaugh is nominated for Producer of the Year, Classical for works that include Divertimento by Peter Bay, Anton Nel & The Austin Symphony Orchestra.

This year’s Grammy Awards process registered more than 21,000 submissions over a 12-month eligibility period (Oct. 1, 2014 – Sept. 30, 2015). Grammy ballots for the final round of voting will be mailed on Dec. 16 to The Recording Academy’s voting members. Ballots are due back to the accounting firm Deloitte by Jan. 15, 2016, when they will be tabulated and the results kept secret until the 58th Grammy Awards telecast.

The Grammy Awards will be held Feb. 15, 2016, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

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