2022 Grammy Award Nominees – Country Music Categories Going Into Tonight’s Show

by jwills | April 3, 2022

The Grammy Awards will be handed out tonight in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and fans can watch the broadcast of the show on CBS TV at 8 PM ET/ 7 PM CT.

The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah will host the event that will include stars from the world of country music. Look for Keith Urban and Kelsea Ballerini to be a presenters, while you can check out performances during the show from Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Brandi Carlile, and Brothers Osborne.

The country music categories include….

Best Country Solo Performance (For new vocal or instrumental solo country recordings)

“Forever After All” – Luke Combs
“Remember Her Name” – Mickey Guyton
“All I Do Is Drive” – Jason Isbell
“camera roll” – Kacey Musgraves
“You Should Probably Leave” – Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Group Performance (For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative country recordings)

“If I Didn’t Love You” – Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood
“Younger Me” – Brothers Osborne
“Glad You Exist” – Dan + Shay
“Chasing After You” – Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris
“Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” – Elle King & Miranda Lambert

Best Country Song (A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only)

“Better Than We Found It” – Jessie Jo Dillon, Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins & Laura Veltz, songwriters (Maren Morris)
“camera roll” – Ian Fitchuk, Kacey Musgraves & Daniel Tashian, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
“Cold” – Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)
“Country Again” – Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley & Thomas Rhett, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)
“Fancy Like” – Cameron Bartolini, Walker Hayes, Josh Jenkins & Shane Stevens, songwriters (Walker Hayes)
“Remember Her Name” – Mickey Guyton, Blake Hubbard, Jarrod Ingram & Parker Welling, songwriters (Mickey Guyton)

Best Country Album (For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new country recordings)

Skeletons – Brothers Osborne
Remember Her Name – Mickey Guyton
The Marfa Tapes – Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall & Jack Ingram
The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita – Sturgill Simpson
Starting Over – Chris Stapleton

Jimmie Allen scored a nomination in the New Artist category which crosses all genres

Other notable 2022 Grammy nominations with a country connection

Best Roots Gospel Album (For albums containing at least 51% playing time of newly recorded, vocal, traditional/roots gospel music, including country, Southern gospel, bluegrass, and Americana recordings)

My Savior – Carrie Underwood

In the General Field (all genres) categories…

Record Of The Year
“Right On Time” – Brandi Carlile

Song Of The Year
“Right On Time” – Brandi Carlile

In the Pop categories…

Best Pop Solo Performance
“Right On Time” – Brandi Carlile

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
That’s Life – Willie Nelson
A Holly Dolly Christmas – Dolly Parton

Check back later as we update with the winners.

Photo Courtesy of the Grammys

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