Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song

The Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song , in German "Grammy Award for the best American Roots Song", is a music prize that has been presented at the annual Grammy Awards since 2014 . The award goes to artists for albums from the area of ​​American roots music , which includes the areas of Americana , bluegrass , blues , folk and music based on regional musical roots.

The Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song was set up in 2014 because other music genres also have a corresponding category for songs in which the focus is not on the performers but on the composers and songwriters. So far, the prize has only been awarded to American artists.

Winner and nominated artist

year	Authors	nationality	plant	Interpreter	Other nominated artists	Pictures of the artists
2014 January 26, 2014	Edie Brickell and Steve Martin	United States	Love Has Come for You	Steve Martin & Edie Brickell	Steve Earle - Invisible (performed by Steve Earle & The Dukes & The Duchesses) Sarah Jarosz - Build Me Up from Bones (performed by Sarah Jarosz) Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott - Keep Your Dirty Lights On (performed by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott) Allen Toussaint - Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed (performed by Allen Toussaint)
2015 February 8, 2015	Rosanne Cash , John Leventhal	United States	A Feather's Not a Bird (performed by Rosanne Cash)	Rosanne Cash	Jesse Winchester - Just So Much (performed by Jesse Winchester) Woody Guthrie , Del McCoury - The New York Trains (performed by the Del McCoury Band ) Edie Brickell , Steve Martin - Pretty Little One (performed by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell) John Hiatt - Terms of My Surrender (performed by John Hiatt)
2016 15th February 2016	Jason Isbell	United States	24 frames	Jason Isbell	Raul Malo for All Night Long ( The Mavericks ) Don Henley and Stan Lynch for The Cost of Living (Don Henley and Merle Haggard ) Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert, Noam Pikely, Chris Thile and Gabe Witcher for Julep ( Punch Brothers ) Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris for The Traveling Kind (Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell )
2017 February 12, 2017	Vince Gill	United States	Kid sister	The Time Jumpers	Robbie Fulks for Alabama at Night (Robbie Fulks) Jack White for City Lights (Jack White) Eric Adcock and Roddie Romero for Gulfstream (Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars) Lori McKenna and Felix McTeigue for Wreck You (Lori McKenna)
2018 January 28, 2018	Jason Isbell	United States	If We Were Vampires	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	David Rawlings and Gillian Welch for Cumberland Gap (Robbie Fulks) Raul Malo and Alan Miller for I Wish You Well (The Mavericks) Rodney Crowell for It Ain't Over Yet (Rodney Crowell featuring Rosanne Cash & John Paul White) Gregg Allman and Scott Sharrard for My Only True Friend (Gregg Allman)
2019 February 10, 2019	Brandi Carlile , Dave Cobb , Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth	United States	The Joke	Brandi Carlile	Waylon Payne , Lee Ann Womack and Adam Wright for All the Trouble (Lee Ann Womack) Jeff Tweedy for Build a Bridge (Mavis Staples) Pat McLaughlin and John Prine for Knockin 'on Your Screen Door (John Prine) Pat McLaughlin and John Prine for Summer's End " (John Prine)
2020 January 26, 2020	Sarah Jarosz , Aoife O'Donovan , Sara Watkins	United States	Call my name	I'm with Her	Our Native Daughters (Writer: Amythyst Kiah) for Black Myself Rosanne Cash (authors: Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal) for Crossing to Jerusalem Yola (authors: Dan Auerbach, Yola Carter, Pat McLaughlin) for Faraway Look Vince Gill (author: Vince Gill) for I Don't Wanna Ride the Rails No More

supporting documents

1. ^ NARAL Final Nomination List 57th Grammy Awards . (PDF) accessed on December 31, 2015.

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards