45th Annual Grammy Awards

[[Syl]]

I never watch award shows, but I thought I'd post the list of winners. Anybody watch the awards? What do you think? And why have I never heard of Nora Jones? And the fact that Korn took the best metal performance award justifies why I don't watch award shows, imho.

RECORD OF THE YEAR

Norah Jones - "Don't Know Why"

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

SONG OF THE YEAR

Norah Jones - "Don't Know Why"

BEST NEW ARTIST

Norah Jones

BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Norah Jones - "Don't Know Why"

BEST MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE

John Mayer - "Your Body Is A Wonderland"

BEST POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL

No Doubt - "Hey Baby"

BEST POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS

Santana & Michelle Branch - "The Game Of Love"

BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE

B.B. King - "Auld Lang Syne"

BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM

Norman Brown - "Just Chillin'"

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM

Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

BEST DANCE RECORDING

Dirty Vegas - "Days Go By"

BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM

Tony Benett - Playin' With My Friends: Benett Sings The Blues"

BEST FEMALE ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Sheryl Crow - "Steve McQueen"

BEST MALE ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Bruce Springsteen - "The Rising"

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL

Coldplay - "In My Place"

BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE

Foo Fighters - "All My Life"

BEST METAL PERFORMANCE

Korn - "Here To Stay"

BEST ROCK INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE

The Flaming Lips - "Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)"

BEST ROCK SONG

Bruce Springsteen - "The Rising"

BEST ROCK ALBUM

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

BEST ALTERNATIVE ROCK MUSIC ALBUM

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Mary J. Blige -- "He Think I Don't Know"

BEST MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Usher - "U Don't Have To Call"

BEST R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL

Stevie Wonder & Take 6 - "Love's In Need Of Love Today"

BEST TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Chaka Khan & the Funk Brothers - "What's Going On"

BEST URBAN/ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE

India.Arie - "Little Things"

BEST R&B SONG

Erykah Badu featuring Common - "Love Of My Life"

BEST R&B ALBUM

India.Arie - Voyage To India

BEST CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM

Ashanti - Ashanti

BEST FEMALE RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE

Missy Elliott - "Scream a.k.a. Itchin'"

BEST MALE RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE

Nelly - "Hot In Herre"

BEST RAP PERFORMANCE BY DUO OR GROUP

OutKast featuring Killer Mike - "The Whole World"

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION

Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland - "Dilemma"

BEST RAP ALBUM

Eminem - The Eminem Show

BEST FEMALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Faith Hill - "Cry"

BEST MALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Johnny Cash - "Give My Love To Rose"

BEST COUNTRY PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL

Dixie Chicks - "Long Time Gone"

BEST COUTRY COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS

Willie Nelson with Lee Ann Womack - "Mendocino County Line"

BEST COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE

Dixie Chicks - "Lil' Jack Slade"

BEST COUNTRY SONG

Alan Jackson - "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM

Dixie Chicks - Home

BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM

Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys - Lost In The Lonesome Pines

BEST NEW AGE ALBUM

Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel - Acoustic Garden

BEST CONEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM

Pat Metheny Group - Speaking Of Now

BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM

Diana Krall - Live In Paris

BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO

Herbie Hancock, soloist - "My Ship"

BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM, INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP

Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker & Roy Hargrove - Directions In Music

BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM

Dave Holland Big Band - What Goes Around

BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM

Caribbean Jazz Project - The Gathering

BEST ROCK GOSPEL ALBUM

Third Day - Come Together

BEST POP/CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL ALBUM

Jars Of Clay - The Eleventh Hour

BEST SOUTHERN, COUNTRY, OR BLUEGRASS GOSPEL ALBUM

The Joranaires, Larry Ford And The Light Crust Doughboys - We Called Him Mr. Gospel Music: The James Blackwood Tribute Album

BEST TRADITIONAL SOUL GOSPEL ALBUM

The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Higher Ground

BEST CONTEMPORARY SOUL GOSPEL ALBUM

Eartha - Sidebars

BEST GOSPEL CHOIR OR CHORUS ALBUM

Carol Cymbala, choir director; The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - Be Glad

BEST LATIN POP ALBUM

Bacilos - Caraluna

BEST LATIN ROCK/ALTERNATIVE ALBUM

Mana - Revolucion De Amor

BEST TRADITIONAL TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM

Bebo Valdez Trio with Israel Lopez "Cachao" & Carlos "Patato" - El Arte Del Sabor

BEST SALSA ALBUM

Celia Cruz - La Negra Tiene Tumbao

BEST MERENGUE ALBUM

grupo Mania - Latino

BEST MEXICAN/MEXICAN-AMERICAN ALBUM

Joan Sebastian - Lo Dijo El Corazon

BEST TEJANO ALBUM

Emilio Navaira - Acuedate

BEST TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM

B.B. King - A Christmas Celebration Of Hope

BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM

Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me

BEST TRADITIONAL FOLK ALBUM

Doc Watson & David Holt - Legacy

BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM

Nickel Creek - This Side

BEST NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC ALBUM

Mary Youngblood - Beneath The Raven Moon

BEST REGGAE ALBUM

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Jamaican E.T.

BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM

Ruben Blades - Mundo

BEST POLKA ALBUM

Jimmy Sturr - Top Of The World

BEST MUSICAL ALBUM FOR CHILDREN

Riders In The Sky - Monsters, Inc. - Scream Factory Favorites

BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM FOR CHILDREN

Tom Chapin - There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM

Mayo Angelou - A Song Flung Up To Heaven (Maya Angelou)

BEST SPOKEN COMEDY ALBUM

Robin Williams - Robin Williams - Live 2002

BEST MUSICAL SHOW ALBUM

Marc Shiman, producer; Scott Wittman, lyricist; Marc Shaiman, composer & lyricist (original broadway cast including Marissa Jaret Winokur & Harvey Fierstein) - Hairspray

BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR A MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA

The Funk Brothers & Various artists, Ted Greeberg, Allan Slutsky & Harry Weinger, compilation producers - Standing In The Shadows Of Motown

BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR A MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA

Howard Shore, composer (Howard Shore) - The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring

BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR A MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA

Randy Newman, songwriter (Randy Newma) - "If I Didn't Have You"

BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION

Thomas Newman, composer (Thomas Newman) - "Six Feet Under Title Theme"

BEST INSTUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT

Thomas Newman, composer (Thomas Newman) - "Six Feet Under Title Theme"

BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S)

Dave Grusin, arranger (James Taylor) - "Mean Old Man"

BEST RECORDING PACKAGE

Kevin Reagan, art director (Dixie Chicks) - Home

BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE

Susan Archie, art director (Charley Patton) - Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton

BEST ALBUM NOTES

David Evans, album notes writer (Charley Patton) - Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton

BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM

Dean Blackwood, compilation producer; David Glasser, Christopher King & Matt Sandoski, mastering engineers (Charley Patton) - Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds Of Charley Patton

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL

S. Husky Hoskulds & Jay Newland, engineers (Norah Jones) - Come Away With Me

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL

Arif Mardin - Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)

BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL

Roger Sanchez, remixer (No Doubt) - "Hella Good" (Roger Sanches Remix Main)

BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL

Michael Bishop, engineer (Robert Spano & Norman Mackenzie) - Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1)

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL

Robert Woods - A Celtic Spectacular, LAGQ Latin, Scary Music, Sibelius: Sym. No. 2/Tubin: Sym. No. 5, The Sound Of Glory - Great Hmns Of Faith And Inspiration

BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM

Robert Spano, conductor; Norman MacKenzie, chorus director; Thomas C. Moore, producer (Christine Goerke, soprano & Brett Polegato, baritone; Atlanta Sym. Orch. Cho.; Atlanta Sym. Orch.) - Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1)

BEST ORHESTRAL PERFORMANCE

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Sym.) - Mahler: Symphony No. 6

BEST OPERA RECORDING

Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier, Rene Pape & Peter Seiffert; Christopher Classen, producer (Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin; Staatskapelle Berlin) - "Wagner: Tannhauser"

BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE

Robert Spano, conductor; Norman MacKenzie, chorus director; Thomas C. Moore, producer (Christine Goerke, soprano & Brett Polegato, baritone; Atlanta Sym. Orch. Cho.; Atlanta Sym. Orch.) - Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1)

BEST INSTRUMENTAL SOLOIST(S) PERFORMANCE (WITH ORCHESTRA)

Sir Neville Marriner, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin (Academy of St. Martin In The Fields) - "Brahms/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos"

BEST CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Takacs Quartet - Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp" Op. 74)

BEST SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE (with or without Conductor)

Joseph Jennings, conductor; Chanticleer (Handel & Haydn Society Of Boston) - "Tavener: Lamentations And Praises"

BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE

Renee Fleming, soprano (Patrick Summers; Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Orch. Of St. Luke's) - Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Etc.)

BEST CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION

Sir John Tavener (Chaticleer; Joseph Jennings; Handel & Haydn Society Of Boston) - Tavener: Lamentations And Praises

BEST CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ALBUM

Andre Previn, conductor (London Sym. Orch.) - Previn Conducts Korngold (Sea Hawk; Captain Blood, Etc.)

BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO

Eminem; Joseph Kahn, video director; Greg Tharp, video producer - "Without Me"

BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO

The Clash; Don Letts, video director - "Westway To The World"

[duchess of malfi]

I had no idea there were so many categories!

[Damelon]

I make a point of not watching award shows. Too much self congratulation going on.

There must have been quite a bit of that last night.

[danlo]

Who r these people? Never even heard of Nora or John what's his name. While the Foo Fighters r fairly cool I can think of tons, Tool 4 instance, of other bands that fit that (strange) category, Hard Rock, and deserve it more. I never pay attn. 2 the Grammys, besides First to Die was on opposite and it was a killer movie--lots of famous actors and based on the novel by a great writer, James Patterson, who has written Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider and, the beautiful, The Beach House...(Jars of Clay r one of the best gospel groups ever!)

[Fist and Faith]

I learned today that Nora Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar! Go figure
I think her huge hit song is very nice. Not sure it is the extraordinary gift from God that 8 Grammy awards would have you believe, but I am happy whenever it comes on the radio.