Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album , in German "Grammy award for the best Zydeco or Cajun music album", is a music prize awarded from 2008 to 2011 by the American Recording Academy in the field of Zydeco and Cajun music was awarded.

History and background

Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall outstanding performance regardless of album sales or chart position.

One of these categories was the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. The prize was awarded from 2008 to 2011. The winners included, in chronological order, Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience, BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet , Buckwheat Zydeco, and Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band. No artist has received the award more than once. In addition to the performing artists, the sound engineers and / or producers were also honored. The band Pine Leaf Boys holds the record for most nominations with four nominations, but has not received any award. Doucet and Cedric Watson each received three nominations. 2009 was the only year that a musician received more than one nomination, and the only time that two artists were nominated for works on the same album - Doucet was nominated as a member of BeauSoleil for Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival as well for his solo album From Now On and Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys were also nominated for their contribution to the compilation album of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Many of the nominated artists were from Louisiana , especially Lafayette .

According to Cody Daigle of The Daily Advertiser , proponents spent nearly seven years campaigning to create a Grammy category specifically for Zydeco and Cajun music. The effort was led by musician Terrance Simien along with his wife and manager, Cynthia. Mitch Landrieu , then Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana , also supported the effort. Cynthia, a trustee of the Recording Academy in Memphis, said hundreds of dollars and hours were invested in what she described as an "uphill battle." Before there was the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album , works of the genre were considered in the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album or Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album .

In 2011, the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album category was removed along with thirty other categories due to a major overhaul of the Grammy categories by the Recording Academy. Four other categories in the field of American Roots Music were discontinued ( Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album , Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album , Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album and Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album ). Zydeco and Cajun musical works have been considered in the Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album category since the 2012 Grammy Awards .

Winners and nominees

year	winner	nationality	album	Nominees	Picture of the winner (s)
2008	Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience	United States	Live! Worldwide	Geno Delafose & French Rockin 'Boogie - Le Cowboy Creole Lisa Haley - King Cake The Lost Bayou Ramblers - Live: Á La Blue Moon Pine Leaf Boys - Blues de Musicien Racines - Racines Roddie Romero and the Hub City All-Stars - The La Louisianne Sessions
2009	BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet	United States	Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival	Michael Doucet - From Now On Pine Leaf Boys - Homage Au Passé Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys - Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Cedric Watson - Cedric Watson
2010	Buckwheat Zydeco	United States	Lay your burden down	BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet - Alligator Purse The Magnolia Sisters - Stripped Down Pine Leaf Boys - Live at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole - L'Ésprit Créole
2011	Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band		Zydeco junkie	Feufollet - En Couleurs DL Menard - Happy Go Lucky Pine Leaf Boys - Back Home Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole - Creole Moon: Live at the Blue Moon Saloon

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards - Recording Academy, Los Angeles (English)
• Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album at grammy.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grammy Awards. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
2. ^ The Official Site of the Grammy Awards - Overview. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
3. ↑ GRAMMY Awards Winners for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Grammys nix Cajun, Zydeco Category. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
5. ^ And the Grammy goes to ... TERRANCE SIMIEN; see photos from Los Angeles. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} At Grammys, zydeco music gets a spark of renewal. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
7. ^ Zydeco and Cajun category among those eliminated from Grammy Awards. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
8. ^ And the Grammy goes to ... TERRANCE SIMIEN; see photos from Los Angeles. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
9. ↑ The award was given to Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience, which included Jose Alvarez, Ralph Fontenot, Keith Sonnier, William Terry and Danny Williams. Joshua Murrell was named the sound engineer and producer of the album.
10. ^ Road to the Grammy's. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Of the seven nominees, only one was based outside of Lafayette , Louisiana .
12. ↑ Live! Worldwide includes recordings of live performances from around the world during Terrance Simien's 25-year career, including The Star-Spangled Banner and traditional songs like Zydeco Boogaloo and Uncle Bud by Boozoo Chavis . Simien and the Zydeco Experience opened up for the pre-broadcast of the 50th Grammy Awards ceremony.
13. ↑ Le Cowboy Creole , Geno Delafose's fifth album, contains covers of Chuck Berry's Promised Land , Easy by the Commodores , When Will I Be Loved by the Everly Brothers , Ronnie Milsap's No Gettin 'Over Me and Van Morrison's Domino .
14. ↑ Geno Delafose Le Cowboy Creole. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Grammy nominee Geno Delafose: Tried and true success; experience Acadiana music in The Rhythm Section. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
16. ^ Pine Leaf Boys: Keeping Cajun Music Alive. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Blues de Musician contains a French adaptation of the country song The Wild Side of Life .
18. ^ Pine Leaf Boys Blues de Musicien. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Michael Doucet, the founder, singer and violinist of BeauSoleil, is the only artist who received more than one nomination for best Zydeco or Cajun music album in the same year.
20. ↑ Among the recipients of the award were Michael Doucet, the band members Tommy Alesi, Jimmy Breaux, David Doucet, Mitchell Reed, Billy Ware and Ben Williams as well as Eli Kelly and Woods Drinkwater as sound engineers. The BeauSoleil set was recorded in April 2008 and released without further involvement with the group's approval. According to Michael Doucet, the album was "on iTunes and then suddenly got nominated for a Grammy".
21. ↑ According to Michael Doucet, From Now On was recorded " live in three sessions without rehearsals, overdubs or song lists". The album includes original titles, covers by Hoagy Carmichael and Allen Toussaint, as well as standards like St. Louis Blues and You Gotta Move .
22. ↑ Michael Doucet From Now On. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
23. ↑ The band Buckwheat Zydeco includes Reginald Dural, Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Michael Melchione, Kevin Menard, Olivier Scoazec, Curtis Watson and Lee Allen Zeno. David Farrell and Steven Maxwell Berlin were also honored as sound engineers and producers of the album, respectively.
24. ↑ Lay Your Burden Down merged Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural with producer Steve Berlin and contained versions of Captain Beefhearts Too Much Time , Jimmy Cliffs Let Your Yeah Be Yeah , Gov't Mules Lay Your Burden Down, Memphis Minnies When the Levee Breaks and Bruce Springsteen's Back in Your Arms .
25. ^ Buckwheat Zydeco Lay Your Burden Down. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Alligator Purse featured guest appearances from Garth Hudson of The Band , Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs , Roswell Rudd and John Sebastian of The Lovin 'Spoonful .
27. ↑ Alligator Purse. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
28. ↑ Members of the Magnolia Sisters, an all-female Cajun band of multi-instrumentalists, included Anya Burgess, Ann Savoy , Lisa Trahan and Jane Vidrine.
29. ↑ Magnolia Sisters Stripped Down. Retrieved on August 23, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Chubby Carrier achieves a lifelong dream, a Grammy award! Retrieved on August 23, 2019 .