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The 2009 Grammys: What You Didn't See on TV

Source: Billboard Magazine
February 9, 2009

With Alison Krauss' five Grammys on the night, she now has an astonishing 26 total Grammy wins. It makes her the most-winning woman of all time (a title she even held before tonight's haul) -- and is one behind Quincy Jones' living record of 27. “I'm still amazed I get to do this for a living," she says. (The most ever wins is 31, from the late conductor Georg Solti.) When asked where Krauss keeps all her Grammys, Plant interjected, ...

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Voices Newly Amplified by Grammy Nominations

Source: Michael Ricci
February 8, 2009

With 1,117 nominees performers, songwriters, producers and more sprinkled over 110 categories, the Grammy Awards can be an unnavigable thicket. Here are some worthy discoveries that shouldnt be allowed to slip through the cracks.

Luis Fonsi The Puerto Rican star Luis Fonsi, 30, has been famous for a decade, but now hes becoming interesting too. Up for best Latin pop album, Mr. Fonsis artfully constructed seventh release, Palabras del Silencio (Universal Music Latino) was one of last years ...

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Album of the Year Nominee Has Everything the Academy Loves ... but Will It Win?

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

Robert Plant And Alison Krauss Raising Sand Was Made For The Grammys

If it were possible to create the perfect Grammy album, there's a good chance Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand could be it. Take two well-worn, respected veterans. Add one critically lauded producer. Throw in some sandpaper-and-velvet vocals and a baker's dozen of time-tested standards. Mix with some artful black-and-white photography. Shake well. Serve on ice. Reap rewards.

The only difference is, unlike some Grammy albums, Raising ...

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2009 Grammy Awards Live!

Source: Michael Ricci
February 8, 2009

Live-blogging the 2009 Grammy Awards

5:01 p.m.: Here we go, opening the 2009 with a Grammy preview of 2010. U2's performing “Get On Your Boots." How many noms are U2 up for? That's right, none.

Radiohead, or even Coldplay, should have opened the show. Let one of the album of the year artists start the Grammys. Instead, Bono is singining with the lyrics to to song blasted on the screen behind him -- it's all set for inclusion in Rock ...

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And the Winner Is... Grammy Faceoff '09

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

Did Weezy make the album of the year? Are the JoBros really the best new artists? Our A-list panel of singers, rappers and producers give you the lowdown on who's taking home a trophy on music's biggest night

Grammy's Top 2009 Nominees: Lil Wayne, Coldplay, Radiohead, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and More

Grammy predictions are a delicate art fragile constructions, built on a buckling framework of name recognition, critical consensus and pure blind luck.

And, of course, they usually ...

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The Man Who Created the Word "Grammy" and Other Idle Gossip

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

According to the Grammy Awards website, the music industry's highest honor got its name from a nationwide “name the award" contest back in 1959.

Not so according to Grammy-, Emmy- and Clio-winning writer-comedian Stan Freberg, who recently toured the Grammy Museum and emerged incensed. He says the honor's origins (and his role in them) have been erased like a bad overdub.

Here's Stan's correction and recollection:

In 1958, I was on the founding Board of Governors of the Recording Academy. ...

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Producers Select Grammy Openers

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2009

Labels once held sway over show's first acts Superstars often open the show like Prince and Beyonce. Other memorable acts have included Sting and the Police; Madonna and the gorillaz; Ricky Martin; and alicia keys with the late Frank Sinatra.

One would think such lightning-in-a-bottle Grammy openers are the brainchildren of savvy music managers and record label execs who lean on the show's producers. After all, an artist's Grammy performance translates into an immediate bump in record sales ...

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Grammy Scorecard List of Nominees/ Updated Winners

Source: Michael Ricci
February 7, 2009

Field 10 - Jazz

All other music categories:

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RECORD OF THE YEAR “Chasing Pavements," Adele “Viva La Vida," Coldplay “Bleeding Love," Leona Lewis “Paper Planes," M.I.A “Please Read the Letter," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

ALBUM OF THE YEAR “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," Coldplay “Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne “Year of the Gentleman," Ne-Yo “Raising Sand," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss “In Rainbows," Radiohead

BEST NEW ARTIST Adele Duffy Jonas Brothers Lady Antebellum Jazmine ...

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