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Another Soy Bomb: The 43rd Grammy Awards


by Benjy Eisen

JAMMERS AND GRAMMYS
A list of the 43rd Grammy Award Winners Of Interest To Jam Band Fans

Record Of The Year:
"Beautiful Day" - U2
Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, Producers
Steve Lillywhite and Richard Rainey, Engineers

Album of The Year:
Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
(nominees were: You're The One - Paul Simon, Kid A - Radiohead, Midnight Vulture - Beck, The Marshall Mathers EP - Eminem)

Song Of The Year:
"Beautiful Day" - U2

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Of Group With Vocal:
"Cousin Dupree" - Steely Dan

Best Rock Instrumental Performance:
"The Call Of Ktulu" - Metallica
(Nominees: "First Tube" - Phish, "Off The Hook" - Peter Frampton, "Until We Say Goodbye" - Joe Satriani, "Electric Lullaby" - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band)

Best Boxed Recording Package:
Miles Davis and John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961
(nominee: Hampton Comes Alive - Phish)

Best Contemporary Jazz Album
Outbound - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
(nominee: Re:Animation Live - Tim Hagans and Bob Beldon)

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocal:
"Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't My Baby" - B.B. King with Dr. John (nominees included "Turn Your Lights Down Low" - Lauren Hill with Bob Marley)

Best Pop Instrumental Performance:
"Caravan" by The Brian Seltzer Orchestra
(nominee: "Zona Mona" - Bela Fleck and The Flecktones)

Best Pop Vocal Album:
Two Against Nature - Steely Dan

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

Best Female Rock Vocal Performance:
"There Goes The Neighborhood" - Sheryl Crow
(nominee: "Glitter In Their Eyes" - Patty Smith)

Best Male Rock Vocal Performance:
"Again" - Lenny Kravitz
(nominees: "Things Have Changed" - Bob Dylan, "Thursday's Child" - David Bowie)

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal:
"Beautiful Day" - U2

Best Hard Rock Performance:
"Guerilla Radio" - Rage Against The Machine
(nominee: "American Bad Ass" - Kid Rock)

Best Alternative Music Album:
Kid A - Radiohead
(nominees included Midnight Vultures - Beck, also Paul McCartney's Liverpool Sound Collage.)

Best Male Country Vocal Performance:
"Solitary Man" - Johnny Cash
Best Country Instrumental Performance:
"Leaving Cottondale" - Alison Brown with Bela Fleck
(nominee: "The Second Mouse" - Tim O'Brien and Darrel Scott)

Best Traditional Blues Album:
Riding With The King - B.B. King and Eric Clapton
(nominees: Let The Good Times Roll - B.B. King, Milk Cow Blues - Willie Nelson)

Best Contemporary Blues Album:
Shoutin' In Key - Taj Mahal and The Phantom Blues Band
(nominee: Shake Hands With Shorty - North Mississippi Allstars)

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo:
"(Go) Get It" - Pat Metheny

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:
Almost Famous - Various Artists (nominee: High Fidelity - Various Artists)

Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media:
"When She Loved Me" - Sarah McLaughlan
(nominee: "Things Have Changed" - Bob Dylan)

Best Bluegrass Album:
The Grass Is Blue - Dolly Parton
(nominees: Fair Weather - Alison Brown, Bill Mon - The Songs of Bill Monroe by Ricky Skaggs and Friends)

Best Reggae Album:
Art And Life - Beenie Man

Best Album Notes:
Miles Davis and John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961; Bob Blumenthal, writer.
(nominee: Hotcakes and Outtakes: 30 Years Of Little Feat; Bud Scoppa, writer)

Best Long Form Music Video:
Gimme Some Truth - The Making Of John Lennon's Imagine Album

Additional notes:
Bob Marley was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Eminem picked up Best Rap Album (The Marshall Mathers LP), Best Rap Solo Performance ("The Real Slim Shady") and shared honors with Dr. Dre for Best Rap Duo or Group Performance ("Forgot About Dre"). As it turns out, nobody forgot about Dre, who also picked up metal for Producer Of The Year.

The musically minded film Almost Famous received soundtrack honors. The various artist compilation includes tracks by The Allman Brothers Band, The Who, Cat Stevens, Yes and Led Zeppelin.

"Oyo Como Va" songwriter Tito Puente, who passed away this past summer, picked up a Grammy for Best Salsa Album (Masterpiece/Obra Maestra), giving testament to a great life, a great artist.

Matt Dillon's reading of Jack Kerouac's On The Road lost in the Best Spoken Word category to Sidney Poiter for "The Measure of A Man."

And in case you're wondering - in the category of Dance Music, "Who Let The Dogs Out" did indeed take the win. That's only because, of course, The Disco Biscuits weren't on the ballot.


Jambands.com Correspondent Benjy Eisen won a Grammy in 1984 for his runaway hit, "Born In The U.S.A."
 

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