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2013 Grammy Awards Recap: Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town, Zac Brown Band Winners
By: Matt Bjorke
This Year's Grammy Performances featured quite a few country, roots and americana (or related) artists with Taylor Swift, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Hunter Hayes, Zac Brown, Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood performing. The roots artists like The Lumineers and Mumford And Sons were well represented too.
As far as the awards went, in the Country crowd, it was Carrie Underwood's night as her song "Blown Away" took home the "Best Country Solo Performance (Male or Female)" award while the song also took home the Best Country Song award (given to writers Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins). The Best Country Album award was given to Zac Brown Band for their brilliant Uncaged album while Little Big Town took home their first ever Grammy for Best Duo/Group Performance for "Pontoon," the quartet's big break-out hit.
Taylor Swift did take home an award with The Civil Wars for their "Safe & Sound" song from the Hunger Games Soundtrack. Mumford & Sons took home the all genre Album of the Year award for Babel while fun. beat out The Alabama Shakes, Frank Ocean, The Lumineers and Hunter Hayes for the Best New Artist award.
The Results for The 2013 Grammy Awards:
Best Country Solo Performance (Male or Female)
Home
Dierks Bentley
Capitol Records Nashville
Springsteen
Eric Church
[EMI Records Nashville]
Cost of Livin'
Ronnie Dunn
[Arista Nashville]
Wanted
Hunter Hayes
Track from: Hunter Hayes
[Atlantic]
Over
Blake Shelton
Track from: Red River Blue
[Warner Bros. Records]
Carrie Underwood
Blown Away
Track From "Blown Away"
[19/Arista Nashville]
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Even If It Breaks Your Heart
Eli Young Band
[Republic Nashville]
Pontoon
Little Big Town
[Capitol Records Nashville]
Safe & Sound
Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars
[Big Machine Records/Universal Republic]
On The Outskirts Of Town
The Time Jumpers
Track from: The Time Jumpers
[Rounder]
I Just Come Here For The Music
Don Williams Featuring Alison Krauss
[Sugar Hill Records]
Best Country Songs
Blown Away
Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)
Track from: Blown Away
[19 Recordings Limited/Arista Nashville; Publishers: Global Dog Music/Lunalight Music, Big Loud Songs/Angel River Songs]
Cost Of Livin'
Phillip Coleman & Ronnie Dunn, songwriters (Ronnie Dunn)
[Arista Nashville; Publishers: Tractor Radio Songs, Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/Showbilly Music]
Even If It Breaks Your Heart
Will Hoge & Eric Paslay, songwriters (Eli Young Band)
[Republic Nashville]
So You Don't Have To Love Me Anymore
Jay Knowles & Adam Wright, songwriters (Alan Jackson)
[EMI Records Nashville/ACR Records; Publishers: Alrighty Den Music, Dean-Parnell Music, Acme Nashville]
Springsteen
Eric Church, Jeff Hyde & Ryan Tyndell, songwriters (Eric Church)
[ACR/EMI Records Nashville; Publishers: Sony/ATV Tree Publishing/Sinnerlina Music/Purple Cape Music, Bug Music/Mamma's Cornbread Music]
Best Country Album
Uncaged
Zac Brown Band
[Southern Ground/Atlantic]
Hunter Hayes
Hunter Hayes
[Atlantic]
Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran
Jamey Johnson
[Mercury Records]
Four The Record
Miranda Lambert
[The RCA Records Label Nashville]
The Time Jumpers
The Time Jumpers
[Rounder Records]


