Grammy Award for Best Folk Album

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Grammy Award for Best Folk Album
Country United States
Presented by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded 2012
Currently held by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, All The Good Times (2021)
Official website grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Folk Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the folk genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[2]

According to the 54th Grammy Awards guideline the Best Folk Album category includes authentic folk material in both traditional vocal and instrumental styles, as well as contemporary material by artists who use traditional folk elements, sounds and instrumental techniques as the basis for their recordings. Folk music is primarily but not exclusively acoustic, often using contemporary arrangements with production and sensibilities distinctly different from a pop approach.[3]

This award combines the previous categories for Best Contemporary Folk Album and Traditional Folk Album. The Recording Academy decided to create this new category for 2012 upon stating there were "challenges in distinguishing between... Contemporary and Traditional Folk".[4]

Recipients

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The Civil Wars are the inaugural winners of the award.
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Husband and wife Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn won the award in 2016.
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2019 recipient Patty Griffin.
Musical partners David Rawlings and Gillian Welch won the award in 2021.
Year[I] Performing artist(s) Title Other Nominees Ref.
2012 The Civil Wars Barton Hollow [5]
2013 Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile The Goat Rodeo Sessions
[6]
2014 Guy Clark My Favorite Picture of You
[7]
2015 Old Crow Medicine Show Remedy
[8]
2016 Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn [9]
2017 Sarah Jarosz Undercurrent [10]
2018 Aimee Mann Mental Illness [11]
2019 Punch Brothers All Ashore
[12]
2020
 Patty Griffin Patty Griffin [13]
2021
 Gillian Welch & David Rawlings All The Good Times [14]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

Artists with multiple nominations

3 nominations
2 nominations

See also

References

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