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Item 183: The 1999 Grammy Awards

Entered by krj on Thu Feb 25 19:57:13 1999:

In keeping with Grex's recent tradition of having the entire music 
conference cross-linked with Agora, we bring you:
 
the 1999 Grammy Awards item.

All I care about is: did Lucinda Williams win her category?
8 responses total.
#1 of 8 by danr on Thu Feb 25 23:19:12 1999:

Who's Lucinda Williams?

#2 of 8 by eeyore on Fri Feb 26 00:52:48 1999:

She did win best Folk Album.  :)

#3 of 8 by krj on Fri Feb 26 06:03:52 1999:

Lucinda Williams is a forty-ish singer/songwriter who falls into 
the no-man's-land where country, rock and folk overlap.  She's put 
out three albums in the last decade, all massive critical favorites.
Her commercial prospects have been dented repeatedly because her 
record labels keep going broke underneath her.  (And it might happen 
again: she's on Mercury, which just got swallowed up as part of the 
giant new Universal Music Group.  UMG is looking to dump 200 artists
from their rosters.)  She's considered too rock for country radio and 
too country for rock radio.  She usually gets a really great electric
guitar sound from her studio backup -- originally Gurf Morlix, now 
Steve Earle on the new album after she pissed off Morlix with her 
rabid perfectionism.
 
Williams is best known for writing the song "Passionate Kisses," 
which became a smash hit for Mary Chapin Carpenter.  Her most recent
album, CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD, landed on a great many best-of-98
lists, including mine.  The album just took the top position in the 
Village Voice's critics' poll.

I have no idea why Williams ended up in the "contemporary folk" 
category, but the Grammy category makers seemed to need to put most 
of the alt.country nominees there, so as to preserve the standard 
country categories for the Nashville industry.

#4 of 8 by other on Fri Feb 26 06:32:48 1999:

did the takacs quartet win?  their management told me that day that they had
been nominated...

#5 of 8 by md on Fri Feb 26 12:29:54 1999:

I don't remember seeing Takacs Quartet announced, but I didn't
watch the whole show.  The only classical ones I remember were
a Bartok recording and Boulez/Chicago' Mahler's 9th.

#6 of 8 by mcnally on Fri Feb 26 16:25:34 1999:

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#7 of 8 by mcnally on Fri Feb 26 16:28:36 1999:

   One of Salon's (http://www.salonmag.com) music critics had a
   satisfyingly venomous piece about the Grammys.  If (like me) you find the
   whole Grammy circus flat-out insulting you might want to check it out..

#8 of 8 by other on Fri Feb 26 18:49:05 1999:

i think the takacs were nominated *for* their recent bartok recording.  not
sure.  but when they come here in march, they will be playing a bartok
piece...

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