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Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
Award category
Award category
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Grammy Award for Best Americana Album |
| awarded_for | quality Americana albums |
| imagesize | 100px |
| alt | A gold gramophone trophy with a plaque set on a table |
| caption | Gilded gramophone trophy presented to Grammy Award winners |
| presenter | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| country | United States |
| year | 2010 |
| holder | Jon Batiste, Big Money (2026) |
| website | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best Americana Album is an honor presented to recording artists for quality albums in the Americana music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
In 2009, the Academy announced that the award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album would be split into two separate categories: Best Contemporary Folk Album and Best Americana Album. The distinction between the two award categories is based on the use of acoustic versus electric instruments; acoustic instruments predominate in "contemporary folk" and electric instruments are characteristic of Americana. Hilly admitted to working hard at convincing the Academy to include Americana as its own category. The music industry had been using the term "Americana music" for about 15 years before the new award was created. Following is the award's purpose, according to the category description guide from the 2018 Grammy Awards:
The award was first presented in 2010 to Levon Helm at the 52nd Grammy Awards for the album Electric Dirt. Lucinda Williams is the artist with most nominations (three) without a win (see below for a table with artists with most wins and nominations).
Recipients
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| Year | Performing artist(s) | Work | Nominees | Ref. | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||
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| Levon Helm | Ramble at the Ryman | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bonnie Raitt | Slipstream | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell | Old Yellow Moon | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rosanne Cash | The River & the Thread | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jason Isbell | Something More Than Free | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Bell | This Is Where I Live | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | The Nashville Sound | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brandi Carlile | By the Way, I Forgive You | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keb' Mo' | Oklahoma | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Los Lobos | Native Sons | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brandi Carlile | In These Silent Days | {{smalldiv | url=https://www.grammy.com/news/2023-grammy-nominations-complete-winners-nominees-list | title=2023 Grammy Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List | last=Lee | first=Taila | date=November 15, 2022 | website=grammy.com | publisher=Recording Academy | access-date=November 24, 2022}} | |||||||||||||||||||
| Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | Weathervanes | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sierra Ferrell | Trail of Flowers | {{smalldiv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jon Batiste | Big Money | {{smalldiv |
Artists with multiple wins
;3 wins
- Jason Isbell
;2 wins
- Brandi Carlile
- Levon Helm
Artists with multiple nominations
;3 nominations
- Brandi Carlile
- Rodney Crowell
- Emmylou Harris
- Jason Isbell
- Keb' Mo'
- Willie Nelson
- Lucinda Williams
;2 nominations
- The Avett Brothers
- Rosanne Cash
- Levon Helm
- John Hiatt
- Iron & Wine
- The Mavericks
- Robert Plant
- Bonnie Raitt
- Allison Russell
- Mavis Staples
- Yola
References
;General
- Note: User must select the "American Roots" category as the genre under the search feature.
;Specific
References
- "Grammy Awards at a Glance". [[Los Angeles Times]].
- "Overview". [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]].
- Sisario, Ben. (June 4, 2009). "Polka Music Is Eliminated as Grammy Award Category". [[The New York Times]].
- Shriver, Jerry. (August 31, 2009). "Grammys will be putting Americana on the map". [[Gannett Company]].
- Rodman, Sarah. (January 29, 2010). "Grammys get a new category: Best Americana Album". The New York Times.
- Fusilli, Jim. (December 5, 2009). "Grammy Awards: Americana, the Not-So Beautiful". [[News Corporation (1980–2013).
- Purdy, Nick. (July 24, 2009). "Industry Chat: Jed Hilly of the Americana Music Association". Paste Media Group.
- "2011 OEP Category Description Guide". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
- "Grammy Award Winners". [[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]].
- (December 2, 2010). "2011 Grammy Nominations: Eminem Leads The Pack". [[MTV]].
- "Best Americana Album".
- "List of 2013 nominees".
- "Diversity And Talent Fill The American Roots Nominations".
- "56th GRAMMY Awards: Full Winners List".
- "List of Nominees 2015".
- "58th Grammy Nominees". Grammy.
- (6 December 2016). "Here is the Complete List of Nominees for the 2017 Grammys".
- Lynch, Joe. (November 28, 2017). "Grammys 2018: See the Complete List of Nominees".
- "61st GRAMMY Awards: Full Nominees List".
- "2020 Grammy Awards nominations list".
- "2021 Nominations List".
- (2021-11-23). "2022 GRAMMYs Awards: Complete Nominations List".
- Lee, Taila. (November 15, 2022). "2023 Grammy Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List". Recording Academy.
- "2024 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Full Nominees List {{!}} GRAMMY.com".
- "2025 GRAMMYs: See The OFFICIAL Full Nominations List {{!}} GRAMMY.com".
- Willman, Chris. (November 7, 2025). "Grammy Nominations 2026: Kendrick Lamar Leads With Nine as Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Leon Thomas Land Among Top Nominees". Variety.
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