Music City arrives at music's biggest night
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LOS ANGELES — Each year at Grammy time, someone notices the preponderance of Nashville artists nominated in non-country categories and asserts that the Tennessee capitol might be becoming a true “Music City,” not merely “Country Music City.”
With tonight’s 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, we may all officially replace “might be” with “is,” or “becoming” with “became.”
Nashville-affiliated music is nominated in each of the four top categories — all-genre album, single, song and new artist — and it shows up in numerous others of the 109 Grammy categories, including Native American, Gospel, rock, classical, pop, video, bluegrass... oh, and also country.
The story of the evening will likely be Taylor Swift, whose Fearless was the best-selling album of 2009 and who is nominated for top song, record and album, and for five other Grammys. If things go well, she could wind up with the most memorable Nashville Grammy night in history, besting even Roger Miller’s six-Grammy haul in 1966, when he won two all-genre categories.
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Comments » 3
badnewsbear writes:
Who Cares?
kjet writes:
Hmmmm, people that enjoy music.
badnewsbear writes:
I like music, just don't like egotistical snobs.
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