Comments on: Grammy Flashback: Best Country Album

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:00:27 +0000

Well, it’s my favorite Faith album and easily recieved the most critical reception. It’s one of CMT’s Top Country Albums.

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:01:17 +0000

And, for the record, Breathe may be poppish, but it is a fantastic album and it probably the highlight of Faith’s career I hope you mean commercial highlight/peak of her career, because Fireflies and Cry were her best works of the decade, and much stronger compared to Breathe.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:31:20 +0000

And, for the record, Breathe may be poppish, but it is a fantastic album and it probably the highlight of Faith’s career

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:29:11 +0000

Cowboy Blue, Loretta Lynn’s album has been considered a classic among country music. On Metacritic, it’s tied with Led Zeppelin and Nirvana. Tell me that isn’t impressive.

By: Aeroyacine

Aeroyacine — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:40:45 +0000

Tim McGraw will gonna take a lot of Grammy’s this year!
Long Life to You Tim!!

By: Cowboy Blue

Cowboy Blue — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:45:11 +0000

Just throwing this out there, I don’t think Loretta deserved the grammy for Van Lear Rose. In my opinion it was just out of respect, not deservance of the award..but thats just my personal opinion.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:57:22 +0000

Oops. Got confused as I was reading and didn’t realize that most of these posts were from last year (I was wondering why people were picking the country album from last year).

I still mean what I said about the Americana category, but nix what I said about Rosanne Cash’s CD.

For this year, my two favorite are MCC (see above) and Patty Griffin. I’m a big fan of both, but I just might have to go with MCC.

As for the main country album category, I really liked Dierks Bentley’s CD, but I don’t see how there’s anyway that Gill will lose this one.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:53:15 +0000

I agree re: the comments on the Americana/Contemporary Folk albums. I found when reading the nominations for them that I liked that grouping a whole lot more than the country albums (and I pretty much like all of those OK).

I agree that Black Cadillac as a whole is the best CD, but I really appreciated Carpenter’s CD as well, especially the tracks On With the Song & Houston. Two masterpieces.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:23:35 +0000

Jonathan,

I’ll definitely be pulling for Cash. I think Black Cadillac is just amazing. It’s tricky to know how things will play out. Grammy voters are limited in how many fields they are allowed to vote in, which does a good job of weeding out uninformed voters in the genre categories. If enough people have heard Black Cadillac, she’s got a damn good shot. Superstars have lost in the category to lesser-known artists before. Hell, John Prine beat Bruce Springsteen last year!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:51:07 +0000

I’ve read over the full list of the year’s Grammy nominees several times now, and I completely missed that “Americana” had been added to the Best Contemporary Folk Album category. Not that 108 categories isn’t enough, but there’s a “Best Urban Alternative Performance” category to recognize some of the more progressive work in the R&B field– I’d argue that the Country field is long overdue for a similar category.

I think _Black Cadillac_ can give _Modern Times_ a run for its money– had Dylan landed the Album of the Year nomination that many people, myself included, predicted, I’d say it would be no contest. I like _Modern Times_ quite a lot, actually, but Cash’s record is such superior work that it would be a shame for it to go unrecognized.