2017 Grammy Awards: Country Music Winners List [Updated]

The 59th Grammy Awards are underway in LA, and we’ll be posting the winners as they are announced in the country, bluegrass and Americana categories.

Best Country Album
A Sailor’s Guide to Earth — Sturgill Simpson WINNER
Big Day in a Small Town — Brandy Clark
Full Circle — Loretta Lynn
Hero — Maren Morris
Ripcord — Keith Urban

Best Country Solo Performance
“My Church” — Maren Morris WINNER
“Love Can Go to Hell” — Brandy Clark
“Vice” — Miranda Lambert
“Church Bells” — Carrie Underwood
“Blue Ain’t Your Color” — Keith Urban

Best New Artist (All Genre)
Chance the Rapper WINNER
Kelsea Ballerini
Maren Morris
The Chainsmokers
Anderson .Paak

Album of the Year (All Genre)
25 — Adele WINNER
A Sailor’s Guide to Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Lemonade — Beyoncé
Purpose — Justin Bieber
Views — Drake

Best Country Song (awarded to songwriters)
“Humble and Kind” — Lori McKenna — (Tim McGraw) WINNER
“Blue Ain’t Your Color” — Clint Lagerberg, Hillary Lindsey & Steven Lee Olsen — (Keith Urban)
“Die a Happy Man” — Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett & Joe Spargur — (Thomas Rhett)
“My Church” — busbee & Maren Morris — (Maren Morris)
“Vice” — Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne — (Miranda Lambert)

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“Jolene” — Pentatonix featuring Dolly Parton WINNER
“Different For Girls” — Dierks Bentley featuring Elle King
“21 Summer” — Brothers Osborne
“Setting the World On Fire” — Kenny Chesney & P!nk
“Think of You” — Chris Young With Cassadee Pope

Best American Roots Song (awarded to songwriters)
“Kid Sister” — Vince Gill — (The Time Jumpers)
“Alabama at Night” — Robbie Fulks — (Robbie Fulks)
“City Lights” — Jack White — (Jack White)
“Gulfstream” — Eric Adcock and Roddie Romero — (Roddie Romero and the Hub City All-Stars)
“Wreck You” — Lori McKenna — (Lori McKenna)Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Best Americana Album
This Is Where I Live — William Bell WINNER
True Sadness — The Avett Brothers
The Cedar Creek Sessions — Kris Kristofferson
The Bird & the Rifle — Lori McKenna
Kid Sister — The Time Jumpers

Best American Roots Performance
“House of Mercy” — Sarah Jarosz WINNER
“Ain’t No Man” — The Avett Brothers
“Mother’s Children Have a Hard Time” — Blind Boys of Alabama
“Factory Girl” — Rhiannon Giddens
“Wreck You” — Lori McKenna

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album
Love Remains — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family WINNER
Poets & Saints — All Sons & Daughters
American Prodigal — Crowder
Be One — Natalie Grant
Youth Revival [Live] — Hillsong Young & Free

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song
“Thy Will” — Hillary Scott & the Scott Family WINNER
“Trust In You” — Lauren Daigle
“Priceless” — For King & Country
“King of the World” — Natalie Grant
“Chain Breaker” — Zach Williams

Best Bluegrass Album
Coming Home — O’Connor Band With Mark O’Connor WINNER
Original Traditional — Blue Highway
Burden Bearer — Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
The Hazel and Alice Sessions — Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands
North By South — Claire Lynch

Best Folk Album
Undercurrent — Sarah Jarosz WINNER
Silver Skies Blue — Judy Collins & Ari Hest
Upland Stories — Robbie Fulks
Factory Girl — Rhiannon Giddens
Weighted Mind — Sierra Hull

Best Roots Gospel Album
Hymns — Joey+Rory WINNER
Better Together — Gaither Vocal Band
Nature’s Symphony In 432 — The Isaacs
Hymns and Songs of Inspiration — Gordon Mote
God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson — (Various Artists)

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin — Willie Nelson WINNER
Cinema —
Andrea Bocelli
Fallen Angels — Bob Dylan
Stages Live — Josh Groban
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway — Barbra Streisand

Multiple Nominations

4 – Maren Morris: New Artist of the Year, Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song, Best Country Album
4 – Lori McKenna: Best Country Song, Best American Roots Performance, Best American Roots Song, Best Americana Album
2 – Sturgill Simpson: Album of the Year, Country Album of the Year
2 – Brandy Clark: Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Album
2 – Miranda Lambert: Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song
2 – Keith Urban: Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Album
2 – Hillary Scott: Best Contemporary Christian Music Album, Best Contemporary Christian Music Song

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