Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals
(For established duos or groups with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
(For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.)
- Shiftwork
Kenny Chesney & George Strait
Track from: Just Who I Am: Poets And Pirates read review
[BNA Records]
- Killing The Blues
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Track from: Raising Sand
[Rounder]
- House Of Cash
George Strait & Patty Loveless
Track from: Troubadour
[MCA Nashville]
- Life In A Northern Town
Sugarland, Jake Owen & Little Big Town
Track from: Love On The Inside [Deluxe Fan Edition] read review
[Mercury Records]
- Let The Wind Chase You
Trisha Yearwood & Keith Urban
Track from: Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love
[Big Machine]
Best Country Instrumental Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)
- Sumatra
Cherryholmes
Track from: Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe
[Skaggs Family Records]
- Two Small Cars In Rome
Jerry Douglas & Lloyd Green
Track from: Glide
[Koch]
- Sleigh Ride
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Track from: Jingle All The Way
[Rounder]
- Is This America? (Katrina 2005)
Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Jerry Douglas & Bruce Hornsby
Track from: Family & Friends — Rambling Boy
[Decca Records]
- Cluster Pluck
Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner
Track from: Play read review
[Arista Nashville]
Best Country Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)
- Dig Two Graves
Ashley Gorley & Bob Regan, songwriters (Randy Travis)
Track from: Around The Bend read review
[Warner Bros.; Publishers: Songs of Combustion Music, Music of Windswept/Famous Music, Mt. Tallac Music]
- I Saw God Today
Rodney Clawson, Monty Criswell & Wade Kirby, songwriters (George Strait)
Track from: Troubadour
[MCA Nashville; Publishers: Big Red Toe/Extremely Loud Music, Steel Wheels Music, Steel Wheels Music/Blind Mule Music]
- In Color
Jamey Johnson, Lee Thomas Miller & James Otto, songwriters (Jamey Johnson)
Track from: That Lonesome Song
[Mercury Records; Publishers: EMI Blackwood Music/Big Gassed Hitties, EMI Blackwood Music/New Songs of Sea Gayle/Noah's Little Boat Music, Eldorotto Music Publishing/Lucky Thumb Music]
- Stay
Jennifer Nettles, songwriter (Sugarland)
Track from: Enjoy The Ride
[Mercury Records; Publisher: Jennifer Nettles Publishing]
- You're Gonna Miss This
Ashley Gorley & Lee Thomas Miller, songwriters (Trace Adkins)
Track from: American Man, Greatest Hits Volume II
[Capitol Records Nashville; Publishers: EMI Blackwood/New Songs of Sea Gayle/Noah's Little Boat Music/Songs of Combustion Music]
Best Country Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)
- That Lonesome Song
Jamey Johnson
[Mercury Records]
- Sleepless Nights read review
Patty Loveless
[Saguaro Road]
- Troubadour
George Strait
[MCA Nashville]
- Around The Bend
Randy Travis
[Warner Bros.]
- Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love
Trisha Yearwood
[Big Machine]
Best Bluegrass Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)
- Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe
Cherryholmes
[Skaggs Family Records]
- Del McCoury Band — Live At The 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Del McCoury Band
[MunckMix]
- The Ultimate Collection / Live At The Ryman
Earl Scruggs With Family & Friends
[Rounder Records]
- Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
[Skaggs Family Records]
- Wheels read review
Dan Tyminski
[Rounder]
Best Traditional Folk Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)
- Coal read review
Kathy Mattea
[Captain Potato Records]
- Comedians & Angels
Tom Paxton
[Appleseed Recordings]
- Bring Me Home
Peggy Seeger
[Appleseed Recordings]
- At 89
Pete Seeger
[Appleseed Recordings]
- Strangers In Another Country
Rosalie Sorrels
[Red House Records]
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)
- Day After Tomorrow
Joan Baez
[Bobolink/Razor & Tie]
- I, Flathead
Ry Cooder
[Nonesuch Records]
- Sex & Gasoline
Rodney Crowell
[Work Song/Yep Roc Records]
- All I Intended To Be read review
Emmylou Harris
[Nonesuch Records]
- Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
[Rounder Records]
