Loretta Lynn, Harold Bradley Earn Honorary Awards From Recording Academy
Loretta Lynn and Nashville studio musician Harold
Bradley have been recognized with Special Merit awards from the Recording Academy, the organization that presents the
Grammys. Lynn will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during a special invitation-only ceremony on Jan. 30 in Los Angeles.
She earned a 1971 Grammy for her duet with Conway Twitty, "After the
Fire Is Gone," as well as two Grammys for the 2004 album, Van Lear Rose. Other Lifetime Achievement honorees include
Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, blues musician David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Michael Jackson, composer-conductor André Previn
and jazz trumpeter Clark Terry. In addition, Bradley will receive the Trustees Award in recognition of outstanding contributions
to the industry in a non-performing capacity. He and his brother, Owen, built Music Row's first recording facility in the
1950s. Harold Bradley's guitar work can be heard on thousands of country recordings. Other recipients of the Trustees Award
include Scepter Records founder Florence Greenberg and longtime awards show producer Walter C. Miller. The Grammys will air
Jan. 31 on CBS.
