- Album of the Year: St. Elsewhere, Gnarls Barkley.
- Record of the Year: “Crazy,” Gnarls Barkley.
- Song of the Year: “Put Your Records On,” if I had to choose from these five.
- Best New Artist: Imogen Heap, the biggest talent of the bunch, semantics aside.
- Country Album: You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker, Willie Nelson, since I can’t in good faith call Jackson’s album a “country” album.
- Male Country Vocal Performance: “The Reason Why,” Vince Gill, though he doesn’t really need more hardware.
- Female Country Vocal Performance: “Kerosene,” Miranda Lambert. Next to Beyonce’s divisive “Ring the Alarm,” it’s the best *performance* nominated this year.
- Group Country Vocal Performance: “Boondocks,” Little Big Town.
- Country Vocal Collaboration: Solomon Burke & Dolly Parton, though it’s not even the best collaboration on his album.
- Country Song: “I Don’t Feel Like Loving You Today.”
- Traditional Folk Album: I Stand Alone, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
- Contemporary Folk Album: Black Cadillac Rosanne Cash.

Dierks Bentley’s “Every Mile a Memory” would be my choice for Male Country Vocal;, The Wreckers’ “Leave the Pieces” should take the Country Duo or Group award; Tommy Emmanuel’s “Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag” was the best country instrumental and Willie Nelson’s You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker was easily the best country album of the actual nominees.

I agree with Kevin in the folk categories but beyond that I either agree with Kevin’s selections or don’t give a flip one way or the other (mostly the latter)

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