🗨 Don't Rock the Comments Section: The Grammys and Country Music

Lainey! Tracy! Luke! And no traction whatsoever in nongenre categories!

Luke, responding appropriately to sharing a stage with Tracy Chapman.

Country’s big year, country’s big…schmear? OK it’s Monday, work with me here. But as we saw last night, Grammy voters were seemingly (and unsurprisingly) uninterested in validating the impact of Music Row’s streaming giants, ignoring their few non-genre nods completely and mostly sticking to old standbys like Chris Stapleton and Jason Isbell in the genre categories. [And keeping them there - what’s it gonna take to get an Isbell album in the main categories? Marissa hopping in to ask this, in case you didn’t guess].

Lainey Wilson got on the broadcast with her country album of the year win in a tight race and, thankfully for all of us who have had to endure the persistent discourse, Luke Combs charmed everyone with his appropriate deference to the great Tracy Chapman, during their sweet “Fast Car” performance. And Brandy Clark took home an award, at long damn last.

Did you watch the Grammys? What did you think? What ~does it all mean~ for ~the state of country music~? Sound off in the comments! — NW