The Dixie Chicks and Alan Jackson scored four nominations each to lead the field of country nominees at the 45th annual Grammy Awards. The nominations were announced Tuesday (Jan. 7) at Madison Square Garden in New York City by a group of artists that included Kenny Chesney , Ashanti, Jimmy Jam, Cyndi Lauper, Avril Lavigne, John Mayer, Justin Timberlake and Nelly.
The Chicks’ third major label album, Home, is nominated for overall album of the year in a category that includes Eminem’s The Eminem Show, Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me, Nelly’s Nellyville and Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising. Jackson’s “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” received a nomination for overall song of the year in a category that includes hits recorded by Springsteen, Jones, Lavigne and Vanessa Carlton.
The Chicks’ Home and Jackson’s Drive share nominations as best country album. “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” earned Jackson nominations as best male country vocal performance and best country song. The Chicks’ “Long Time Gone” is nominated as best country performance by a duo or group with vocal. The Chicks picked up a best country instrumental performance nomination with “Lil’ Jack Slade,” a track from Home.
This year’s Grammy Awards presentation takes place Feb. 23 at Madison Square Garden. The show will be televised live on CBS.
Here’s a list of the latest Grammy nominations in the country, bluegrass and folk categories:
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
“Cry,” Faith Hill
“Blessed,” Martina McBride
“Dagger Through the Heart,” Dolly Parton
“Lately,” Lucinda Williams
“Something Worth Leaving Behind,” Lee Ann Womack
Best Male Country Vocal Performance
“Give My Love to Rose,” Johnny Cash
“Three Days,” Pat Green
“Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” Alan Jackson
“The Impossible,” Joe Nichols
“I’m Gonna Miss Her,” Brad Paisley
Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal
“Beautiful Mess,” Diamond Rio
“Long Time Gone,” Dixie Chicks
“Not a Day Goes By,” Lonestar
“Roll the Stone Away,” Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
“Just What I Do,” Trick Pony
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
“Squeeze Me” in Garth Brooks
and Trisha Yearwood
“Flesh and Blood,” Mary Chapin Carpenter
, Sheryl Crow
and Emmylou Harris
“Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Johnny Cash and Fiona Apple
“Mendocino County Line,” Willie Nelson
With Lee Ann Womack
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Glory, Glory),” Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Taj Mahal, Alison Krauss
and Doc Watson
Best Country Instrumental Performance
“Bearing Straight,” Bering Strait
“Sally Goodin,” The Chieftains
and Earl Scruggs
“Lil’ Jack Slade,” Dixie Chicks
“Bear Mountain Hop,” Béla Fleck
“Smoothie Song,” Nickel Creek
Best Country Song
“The Impossible,” Kelley Lovelace and Lee Thomas Miller, songwriters (Joe Nichols)
“Long Time Gone,” Darrell Scott, songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
“Mendocino County Line.” Matt Serletic and Bernie Taupin, songwriters (Willie Nelson With Lee Ann Womack)
“Three Days,” Radney Foster
and Pat Green, songwriters (Pat Green)
“Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” Alan Jackson, songwriter (Alan Jackson)
Best Country Album
Home, Dixie Chicks
Drive, Alan Jackson
The Great Divide, Willie Nelson
Man With a Memory, Joe Nichols
Halos & Horns, Dolly Parton
Best Bluegrass Album
Lost in the Lonesome Pines, Jim Lauderdale
, Ralph Stanley
& The Clinch Mountain Boys
The Hard Game of Love, Doyle Lawson
& Quicksilver
Stanley Blues, Ralph Stanley II
Ralph Stanley, Ralph Stanley
Jelly on My Tofu, The Roland White Band
Best Traditional Folk Album
Fiddlers 4, Fiddlers 4 (Bruce Molsky, Michael Doucet, Darol Anger and Rushad Eggleston)
Postcards, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer
Blue Country Heart, Jorma Kaukonen
High Lonesome Cowboy, Peter Rowan
and Don Edwards
Evangeline Made — A Tribute to Cajun Music, Various Artists
Legacy, Doc Watson and David Holt
Contemporary Folk Album (Vocal or Instrumental)
American IV — The Man Comes Around, Johnny Cash
Down the Old Plank Road, The Chieftains
Jerusalem, Steve Earle
1000 Kisses, Patty Griffin
This Side, Nickel Creek
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