2016 Country Music Grammy Nominations

Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" is nominated in the all-genre Best Song award for songwriters while Sam Hunt is up for Best New Artist and Chris Stapleton is up for Best Album for Traveller. See rest of country noms here!

The Grammy Awards nominations for 2016 are out and it's a wonderful collection of mainstream and outside mainstream hits.

26. BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
Burning House
Cam
Track from: Welcome To Cam Country
Label: Sony Music Entertainment

Traveller
Chris Stapleton
Track from: Traveller
Label: Mercury Nashville

Little Toy Guns
Carrie Underwood
Track from: Greatest Hits: Decade #1
Label: 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville

John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16
Keith Urban
Label: Capitol Records Nashville

Chances Are
Lee Ann Womack
Track from: The Way I'm Livin'
Label: Sugar Hill Records

27. BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
Stay A Little Longer
Brothers Osborne
Label: EMI Records Nashville

If I Needed You
Joey+Rory
Track from: Country Classics
Label: Gaither Music Group

The Driver
Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay
Label: Capitol Records Nashville

Girl Crush
Little Big Town
Track from: Pain Killer
Label: Capitol Records Nashville

Lonely Tonight
Blake Shelton Featuring Ashley Monroe
Label: Warner Bros

28. BEST COUNTRY SONG
Chances Are
Hayes Carll, songwriter (Lee Ann Womack)
Track from: The Way I'm Livin'
Label: Sugar Hill Records; Publisher(s): Highway 87 Music admin. by BMG/Chrysalis

Diamond Rings And Old Barstools
Barry Dean, Luke Laird & Jonathan Singleton, songwriters (Tim McGraw)
Track from: Sundown Heaven Town
Label: Big Machine Records/McGraw Music; Publisher(s): Songs of Universal, Inc./Creative Nation Music/Twangin and Slangin Songs/Country Paper/Pulse Nation/BMG Gold Songs /Glassbean/We Jam Writers Group

Girl Crush
Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose, songwriters (Little Big Town)
Track from: Pain Killer
Label: Capitol Records Nashville; Publisher(s): Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Songs Of Crazy Girl Music, Songs of Universal, Inc., Hoodie Songs, HillarodyRathbone Music admin. by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Hold My Hand
Brandy Clark & Mark Stephen Jones, songwriters (Brandy Clark)
Track from: 12 Stories
Label: Warner Bros Records; Publisher(s): Songs of Parallel/Vista Loma Music admin. by Amplified Administration and Harlan Howard Songs

Traveller
Chris Stapleton, songwriter (Chris Stapleton)
Track from: Traveller
Label: Mercury Nashville; Publisher(s): WB Music Corp./Ken Tucky Music

29. BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Montevallo
Sam Hunt
Label: MCA Nashville

Pain Killer
Little Big Town
Label: Capitol Records Nashville

The Blade
Ashley Monroe
Label: Warner Bros.

Pageant Material
Kacey Musgraves
Label: Mercury Nashville

Traveller
Chris Stapleton
Label: Mercury Records

45. BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE

And Am I Born To Die

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn

Track from: Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn
Label: Rounder

Born To Play Guitar

Buddy Guy

Track from: Born To Play Guitar
Label: RCA Records/Silvertone Records

City Of Our Lady

The Milk Carton Kids

Track from: Monterey
Label: Anti

Julep

Punch Brothers

Track from: The Phosphorescent Blues
Label: Nonesuch

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Mavis Staples

Track from: Your Good Fortune
Label: Anti

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46. BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG

All Night Long

Raul Malo, songwriter (The Mavericks)
Track from: Mono
Label: The Valory Music Co.; Publisher(s): Big Machine Music/Raul Malo Music

The Cost Of Living

Don Henley & Stan Lynch, songwriters (Don Henley & Merle Haggard)
Track from: Cass County
Label: Capitol Records; Publisher(s): Wisteria Music (GMR) admin. by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Matanzas Music

Julep

Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert, Noam Pikelny, Chris Thile & Gabe Witcher, songwriters (Punch Brothers)
Track from: The Phosphorescent Blues
Label: Nonesuch; Publisher(s): Chris Thile Music, Money Baby Music, Noam Tunes, Silver Hammer Music, Paul Kowert

The Traveling Kind

Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris, songwriters (Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell)
Track from: The Traveling Kind
Label: Nonesuch; Publisher(s): Criterion Music o/b/o Coolwell Music/Almo Music Corp. o/b/o Poodlebone Music/Chisel Publishing

24 Frames

Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell)
Track from: Something More Than Free
Label: Southeastern Records; Publisher(s): Songs Of Emchant

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47. BEST AMERICANA ALBUM

The Firewatcher's Daughter

Brandi Carlile
Label: ATO Records

The Traveling Kind

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
Label: Nonesuch

Something More Than Free

Jason Isbell
Label: Southeastern Records

Mono

The Mavericks
Label: The Valory Music Co.

The Phosphorescent Blues

Punch Brothers
Label: Nonesuch

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48. BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM

Pocket Full Of Keys

Dale Ann Bradley
Label: Pinecastle Records

Before The Sun Goes Down

Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
Label: Compass Records Group

In Session

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Label: Mountain Home Music Company

Man Of Constant Sorrow

Ralph Stanley & Friends
Label: Red River Entertainment

The Muscle Shoals Recordings

The Steeldrivers
Label: Rounder

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49. BEST BLUES ALBUM

Descendants Of Hill Country

Cedric Burnside Project

Label: Cedric Burnside Project

Outskirts Of Love

Shemekia Copeland

Label: Alligator Records

Born To Play Guitar

Buddy Guy

Label: RCA Records/Silvertone Records

Worthy

Bettye LaVette

Label: Cherry Red

Muddy Waters 100

John Primer & Various Artists

Label: Raisin Music Records

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50. BEST FOLK ALBUM

Wood, Wire & Words

Norman Blake

Label: Plectrafone Records

Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn

Label: Rounder

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Rhiannon Giddens

Label: Nonesuch

Servant Of Love

Patty Griffin

Label: PGM

Didn't He Ramble

Glen Hansard

Label: Anti

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