Congratulations To This Year’s Crop Of Really Important Grammy Winners!

I know I've ripped on the Grammys a lot these past few... my life, but for once, I'd like to take the time to actually write a positive post congratulating the 120+ recipients of this year's always-relevant, always-accurately-reflecting-contemporary-culture Grammy Awards: -- Congratulations to Bruce Nemerov for winning "Best Album Notes" for John Work, III: Recording Black Culture -- I was gonna kill myself if Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni won for their piece of crap liner notes on Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s. -- Congratulations to Angelique Kidjo for her victory in the "Best Contemporary World Music Album" Category, though I think we all know Djin Djin was a biiiiiiit on the Classical World Music side, but we'll let it slide ;-) -- Congratulations to John Newton for taking home "Best Engineered Album, Classical" for the album Grechaninov: Passion Week. While I personally preferred Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos by Arne Akselberg & Tobias Lehmann, if we're gonna go stricly on engineering, I think you have to give the award to "Engineery" Newton. That's what I've always called him. -- Congratulations to Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, who won "Best Polka Album" for Come Share the Wine, beating out "Weird" Al Yankovic, a Garfield comic, and an old Little Ceasar's commercial. -- Congrats to Garrick Ohlsson for taking "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)", because seriously, f*ck orchestras. -- Congratulations to Juan Luis Guerra for winning "Best Tropical Latin Album." I guess the IO Digital Cable Commercial falls in the "Best Latin Urban" category. -- Congratulations to Johnny Whitehorse for winning "Best Native American Music Album" for Totemic Flute Chants, beating out Davis Mitchell's Thanks Again, White People and Walter Ahhaitty's Yeah Seriously, Thanks Again, White People. -- And finally, a hearty congratulations to Burt Bacharach, The Band, Cab Calloway, Doris Day, Itzhak Perlman, Max Roach,
	Publicado: 2008-02-11 Proveedor: VH1