GRAMMY WATCH – Country Music Categories: My Picks and Predictions

Here are my picks and predictions in the Country Music categories for The 58^th Annual Grammy Awards.

Best Country Solo Performance
• Burning House
      Cam
      Track from: Welcome To Cam Country
      [Sony Music Entertainment]

• Traveller
      Chris Stapleton
      Track from: Traveller
      [Mercury Nashville]

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

• John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16
      Keith Urban
      [Capitol Records Nashville]

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

My Pick: JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 – Go Keith Urban!

My Prediction: TRAVELLER

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Best Country Duo/Group Performance
• Stay A Little Longer
      Brothers Osborne
      [EMI Records Nashville]

• If I Needed You
      Joey+Rory
      Track from: Country Classics
      [Gaither Music Group]

• The Driver
      Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay
      [Capitol Records Nashville]

• Girl Crush
      Little Big Town
      Track from: Pain Killer
      [Capitol Records Nashville]

• Lonely Tonight
      Blake Shelton Featuring Ashley Monroe
      [Warner Bros]

My Pick and Prediction: GIRL CRUSH – Hands down!

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Best Country Song
• Chances Are
      Hayes Carll, songwriter (Lee Ann Womack)
      Track from: The Way I'm Livin'
      [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
      [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
      [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
      [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
      [Mercury Nashville; Publisher(s): WB Music Corp./Ken Tucky Music]

My Pick and Prediction: GIRL CRUSH – such a great, catchy melody.

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Best Country Album
• Montevallo
      Sam Hunt
      [MCA Nashville]

• Pain Killer
      Little Big Town
      [Capitol Records Nashville]

• The Blade
      Ashley Monroe
      [Warner Bros.]

• Pageant Material
      Kacey Musgraves
      [Mercury Nashville]

• Traveller
      Chris Stapleton
      [Mercury Records]

My Pick and Prediction: PAIN KILLER – Looks like a BIG night for Little Big Town, but don’t count Chris Stapleton out here either.

THE 58^TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS will be telecast live on CBS, Monday February 15, 2016 at 8PM/EST – PM/PST.  For everything GRAMMY, including a Full List of this year’s Nominees visit their website at http://www.grammy.com/

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