Grammy nominations 2022: Mickey Guyton, Chris Stapleton lead country nominees – The Tennessean
The Recording Academy remembered Mickey Guyton’s name.
Nearly a year after her standout performance at the 2021 Grammy Awards, Guyton joins powerhouse Chris Stapleton in leading a field of country music nominees for the 2022 show.
Guyton, the foremost Black woman in mainstream country music, earned three nods for work on her long-awaited debut album, “Remember Her Name.”
The album’s title track — about “the importance of self-worth and the power of persistence and perseverance,” Guyton once said — received a nod in Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance, her second time vying for the latter category in as many years. The Recording Academy also nominated “Remember Her Name” for Best Country Album, making Guyton the first Black woman to compete in the field since it relaunched in 1994.
Stapleton competes in the same categories behind the snowballing award season success of his 2020 album, “Starting Over.” He earned nominations for Best Country Album, Best Country Song for “Cold” and Best Country Solo Performance for “You Should Probably Leave.” Behind “Starting Over,” Stapleton earned earlier this month a trio of CMA Awards: Single, Song and Album of the Year.
A handful of familiar award season favorites — Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, Brothers Osborne and Maren Morris — follow with two nominations each.
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According to multiple reports earlier this year, the Recording Academy bumped Musgraves’ 2021 LP “Star-Crossed” from competing in Best Country Album this year; she instead received nods in Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for her cinematic 2021 single “Camera Roll.” Though her previous effort “Golden Hour” was named Album of the Year at the 2019 Grammys, “Star-Crossed” is absent from the major all-genre categories this year.
Fresh off a landmark CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the Year win, Brothers Osborne received nominations in Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Younger Me,” an autobiographical song of acceptance delivered by the band’s singer T.J. Osborne, who came out earlier this year as gay. Brothers Osborne also bring 2020 album “Skeletons” to the Best Country Album category.
Morris earned a Best Country Song nod for her 2020 protest single “Better Than We Found It.” She and singer-husband Ryan Hurd also compete in Best Country Duo/Group Performance for chart-topping duet “Chasing After You.”
Lambert alongside Jon Randall and Jack Ingram returns to Best Country Album for bare-bones singer-songwriter project “The Marfa Tapes.” Lambert rounds out her nominations with Elle King, earning a Best Country Duo/Group Performance nod for duet “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home).”
Additional country nominees include viral Walker Hayes hit “Fancy Like,” Sturgill Simpson classic country concept album “The Ballad of Dood and Juanita,” Luke Combs’ “Forever After All” and Jason Isbell’s “All I Do Is Drive,” among others.
Jimmie Allen, reigning CMA Awards New Artist of the Year, received an all-genre nomination for Best New Artist.
And a number of country artists earned nominations outside of the four genre categories. Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson received respective nods for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album; Carrie Underwood competes in Best Roots Gospel Album for her 2021 Christian release, “My Savior” (Underwood also earned a country nod for Jason Aldean duet “If I Didn’t Love You”); Tyler Childers received recognition in Best Folk Album for his 2020 fiddle album and social justice song “Long Violent History”; and hit Music Row songwriter Ashley Gorney earned a Best Rock Song nod for Weezer co-write “All My Favorite Songs.”
The 2022 Grammy Awards air 7 p.m. CST Jan. 31 via CBS.
2022 Grammy Awards country nominations
Best Country Solo Performance
- “Forever After All” – Luke Combs
- “Remember Her Name” – Mickey Guyton
- “All I Do Is Drive” – Jason Isbell
- “Camera Roll” – Kacey Musgraves
- “You Should Probably Leave” – Chris Stapleton
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
- “If I Didn’t Love You” – Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood
- “Younger Me” – Brothers Osborne
- “Glad You Exist” – Dan + Shay
- “Chasing After You” – Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd
- “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” – Miranda Lambert and Elle King
Best Country Song
- “Better Than We Found It” – Jessie Jo Dillon, Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins and Laura Veltz, songwriters (Maren Morris)
- “Camera Roll” – Ian Fitchuk, Kacey Musgraves and Daniel Tashian, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
- “Cold” – Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon and Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)
- “Country Again” – Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley and Thomas Rhett, songwriters (Thomas Rhett)
- “Fancy Like” – Cameron Bartolini, Walker Hayes, Josh Jenkins & Shane Stevens, songwriters (Walker Hayes)
- “Remember Her Name” – Mickey Guyton, Blake Hubbard, Jarrod Ingram & Parker Welling, songwriters (Mickey Guyton)
Best Country Album
- “Skeletons” – Brothers Osborne
- “Remember Her Name” – Mickey Guyton
- “The Marfa Tapes” – Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall
- “The Ballad of Dood and Juanita” – Sturgill Simpson
- “Starting Over” – Chris Stapleton