Compass Records Group releases for your 2018 GRAMMY® Consideration
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG
Nicki Bluhm – “To Rise You Gotta Fall” (by Nicki Bluhm)
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards – “Skipping Stone” (by Laura Cortese)
Erin Costelo – “Fighter” (by Erin Costelo)
A.J. Croce – “Cures Just Like Medicine” (by A.J. Croce)
Mike Farris – “Golden Wings” (by Mike Farris)
Eliza Gilkyson – “In The Name Of The Lord” (by Eliza Gilkyson)
John Gorka – “Nazarene Guitar” (by John Gorka)
Mountain Heart – “More Than I Am” (by Josh Shilling and Marcus Hummon)
Amy Ray – “Sure Feels Good Anyway” (by Amy Ray)
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE
Nicki Bluhm – “Battlechain Rose”
Special Consensus ft. Becky Buller & Bobby Osborne – “She Took The Tennessee River”
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards – “California Calling”
Erin Costelo – “Low”
Mike Farris – “Golden Wings”
Eliza Gilkyson ft. Jimmy LaFave – “Down By the Riverside”
John Gorka – “True In Time”
Mountain Heart – “More Than I Am”
Missy Raines ft. Alison Brown, Sierra Hull, Molly Tuttle & Becky Buller – “Swept Away”
Amy Ray – “Sure Feels Good Anyway”
The Wailin’ Jennys – “Wildflowers”
BEST FOLK ALBUM
Altan – The Gap of Dreams (produced by Altan, Tommy McLaughlin and Michael Keeney)
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards – California Calling (produced by Sam Kassirer)
Eliza Gilkyson – Secularia (produced by Cisco Ryder Gilliland, special guests Shawn Colvin, Michael Hearne, Jimmy LaFave, Pastor Sam Butler)
John Gorka – True In Time (produced by Rob Genadek, special guests Eliza Gilkyson, Lucy Kaplansky, Kathleen Johnson, Jonatha Brooke)
The Tannahill Weavers – Òrach (produced by Phil Smillie)
The Wailin’ Jennys – Fifteen (produced by The Wailin’ Jennys)
BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM
Mike Barnett – Portraits in Fiddles (produced by Mike Barnett, special guests David Grisman, Stuart Duncan, Noam Pikelny, Bryan Sutton, Tony Trischka and more…)
Special Consensus – Rivers and Roads (produced by Alison Brown, special guests Bobby Osborne, Becky Buller, Molly Tuttle, 10 String Symphony, John Hartford
BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
Nicki Bluhm – To Rise You Gotta Fall (produced by Matt Ross-Spang)
Mike Farris – Silver & Stone (produced by Garry West, special guest Joe Bonamassa)
Mountain Heart – Soul Searching (produced by Garry West, special guests Stuart Duncan, Kenny Malone, Scott Vestal, Bryon Larrance, Robbie Bowman)
Amy Ray – Holler (produced by Brian Speiser, special guests Rutha Mae Harris, The Wood Brothers, Derek Trucks, Brandi Carlile, Vince Gill, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Jordan Hamlin, Alison Brown)
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
Elizabeth and the Catapult – Keepsake
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Amy Ray – Holler (produced by Brian Speiser, special guests Rutha Mae Harris, The Wood Brothers, Derek Trucks, Brandi Carlile, Vince Gill, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Jordan Hamlin, Alison Brown)
BEST CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Kittel & Co. – Whorls (produced by Tyler Duncan and Jeremy Kittel, special guest Sarah Jarosz)
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Amy Ray – Holler (produced by Brian Speiser, special guests Rutha Mae Harris, The Wood Brothers, Derek Trucks, Brandi Carlile, Vince Gill, Phil Cook, Justin Vernon, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Jordan Hamlin, Alison Brown)
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
Alison Brown (Special Consensus – Rivers and Roads)
Tyler Duncan (Kittel & Co. – Whorls)
Brian Speiser (Amy Ray – Holler)
Garry West (Mike Farris – Silver & Stone)
Garry West & Mountain Heart (Mountain Heart – Soul Searching)
BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL
Tyler Duncan & Warren Amerman (Kittel & Co. – Whorls)
Bobby Tis (Amy Ray – Holler)
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTAL OR A CAPPELLA
Kittel & Co. – “Preludio” (arranged by Jeremy Kittel)
The Wailin’ Jennys – “Loves Me Like A Rock” (arranged by Nicky Mehta, Rutha Mae Harris and Heather Masse)
BEST ARRANGEMENT, INSTRUMENTS AND VOCALS
Kittel & Co. ft. Sarah Jarosz – “Waltz”(arranged by Jeremy Kittel)
BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
Kittel & Co. – “Chrysalis” (by Jeremy Kittel)
SONG OF THE YEAR
Elizabeth and the Catapult – “Underwater” (by Elizabeth Ziman)
BEST CHAMBER MUSIC / SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Nathaniel Smith, Quinn Bachand, Joshua Pinkham, Simon Chrisman & Jeremy Kittel – “Preludio”
BEST POP DUO / GROUP PERFORMANCE
Elizabeth and the Catapult – “We Can Pretend”
BEST RECORDING PACKAGE
Kittel & Co. – Whorls (package by Corrina Van Hamlin)
Amy Ray – Holler (package by Denise Plumb)