To all Grammy voters -- thank you for listening!
Best Americana Album:
Queen Esther -- Gild The Black Lily
Best American Roots Performance:
John The Revelator
Best American Roots Song:
The Whiskey Wouldn't Let Me Pray
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Craig Dreyer and Jörg Mohr, engineers, Srephan Ulrich, mastering engineer
"Queen Esther manages to exude a preservationist feel in her music while putting a distinctly modern stamp on it. Beginning to end, Gild The Black Lily is as pure and enjoyable an album of old-time country, blues, gospel and folk music as you’ll ever hear. It’s fresh and original—not an imitation—and there are other obvious music influences at work in it, but the lineage between it and old Americana music is direct and clear." -- Adventures in Americana