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2021 Country Grammy Nominees Include Eric Church and Miranda Lambert

Nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards were announced today (11/24). Country music categories are below: Best New Artist – All Genre Ingrid Andress Phoebe Bridgers Chika Noah Cyrus D Smoke…

2021 Country Grammy Nominees
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Nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards were announced today (11/24). Country music categories are below:

Best New Artist - All Genre

Ingrid Andress

Phoebe Bridgers

Chika

Noah Cyrus

D Smoke

Doja Cat

Kaytranada

Megan Thee Stallion

Best Country Album

Lady Like - Ingrid Andress

Wildcard - Miranda Lambert

Your Life Is A Record - Brandy Clark

Nightfall - Little Big Town

Never Will - Ashley McBryde

Best Country Song

The Bones - Maren Morris

Bluebird - Miranda Lambert

Some People Do - Old Dominion

Crowded Table - The Highwomen

More Hearts Than Mine - Ingrid Andress

Best Solo Performance - Country

Stick That In Your Country Song - Eric Church

Who You Thought I Was - Brandy Clark

When My Amy Prays - Vince Gill

Black Like Me - Mickey Guyton

Bluebird - Miranda Lambert

Best Group / Duo Performance - Country

All Night - Brothers Osborne

10,000 Hours - Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber

Ocean - Lady A

Sugar Coat - Little Big Town

Some People Do - Old Dominion

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance

Nominee - There Was Jesus - Zach Williams & Dolly Parton; Casey Beathard, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters

The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards will air live on CBS on January 31, 2021.

Country Grammy Darlings

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.