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Austin City Limits congratulates all the nominees for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. We’d like to give special recognition to the nominees who have appeared on ACL. Big congratulations to Kendrick Lamar, a top contender with seven nominations. The Compton hip-hop trailblazer earned nods for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap/Sung Performance, Best Rap Song, Best Rap Album and Best Music Video.

We’re thrilled to be showcasing many of this year’s nominees during our current Season 43, stay tuned for new episodes and congratulations to Chris Stapleton, earning top honors with nominations for Best Country Album, Best Country Song and Best Country/Solo Performance; LCD Soundsystem, for Best Dance Recording and Best Alternative Music Album; Father John Misty, for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package; Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song and Run the Jewels for Best Rap Song for their collaboration with Danger Mouse. You can see all of these artists’ brand new episodes in early 2018.  We’re also chuffed for fellow nominees whose episodes kicked off the first half of our 43rd season: Ed Sheeran, for Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album; Miranda Lambert, for Best Country/Solo Performance and Best Country Song; and Zac Brown Band, for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.

Additional congratulations to the talented ACL veterans who received top nominations: Foo Fighters, for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song; Coldplay, for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance; CeCe Winans for Best Gospel Album and Best Gospel Performance/Song; the Allman Brothers’ Gregg Allman (R.I.P.) and the Mavericks, both for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song; Alison Krauss for Best Country/Solo Performance and Best American Roots Performance; The National, for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Recording Package; Ladysmith Black Mambazo for Best World Music Album and Best Children’s Album; Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds for Best Music Film and Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package and the late Leonard Cohen for Best Rock Album and Best American Roots Performance. We’re proud to note that four of the five noms for Best Alternative Music Album comes from ACL vets: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Father John Misty and The National.

Shout-outs as well to Queens of the Stone Age, Sarah McLachlan, Beck, Arcade Fire, Juanes, The War On Drugs, Alabama Shakes, Reba McEntire, Blind Boys of Alabama, Rodney Crowell, Damian Jr. Gong Marley, Aimee Mann, Randy Newman, Robert Cray, Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’, Natalie LaFourcade, Portugal. The Man, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Iron & Wine, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Punch Brothers’ Noam Pikelny and the late Glen Campbell for their nominations.

A full list of all nominees can be found here – good luck to them all. Co-produced by ACL executive producer, Terry Lickona, the 60th Annual Grammy Awards will telecast on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018.

Austin City Limits congratulates all the nominees for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. We’d like to give special recognition to the nominees who have appeared on ACL. Congratulations to Sturgill Simpson, whose latest LP A Sailor’s Guide to Earth is nominated for the top honor of Album of the Year, as well as Best Country Album; Iggy Pop, nominated for Best Alternative Music Album for Post Pop Depression, an album given its first full live airing on our show this season; Radiohead, who have nominations for both Best Rock Song and Best Alternative Music Album; Rhiannon Giddens, who gets nods for both Best Folk Album and Best Americana Roots Performance; Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban, who go head to head for Best Country Performance and Best Country Song (Urban also has a Best Country Album nod); the Avett Brothers, nominated for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Performance; and Austin’s own Sarah Jarosz, nominated for Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Performance. Congratulation also to both Steve Martin and Cyndi Lauper, who are both nominated in the Best Musical Theater Album category for their scores for Bright Star and Kinky Boots, respectively, which may be a first for us. And we’d like to send a special congratulations to Alabama Shakes, who not only garnered a Best Rock Performance nod for “Joe,” but did it with a track recorded on our stage:

Congratulations also to the following ACL performers who nabbed nominations: Willie Nelson, Bon Iver, Kendrick Lamar, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Dolly Parton, Tim McGraw, Loretta Lynn, Jesse & Joy, Blind Boys of Alabama, William Bell, Robbie Fulks, Jack White, Vince Gill, Kris Kristofferson, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Elvis Costello, Trey Anastasio, Andrew Bird, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Bridges and Coldplay. A full list of nominations can be found here.

The 59th Annual Grammy Awards will telecast on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017.

Austin City Limits congratulates our many distinguished alumni on their Grammy wins this past Monday.

A highlight of our Season 41, rap superstar Kendrick Lamar swept the Grammy’s Rap categories, winning for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Album for his landmark To Pimp A Butterfly. Alabama Shakes, who also lit up the ACL stage this season, took home three trophies for their acclaimed Sound & Color, including Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song. Season 40 alum Ed Sheeran won his first-ever Grammys in two top categories, Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance. Jason Isbell, an ACL favorite who gave a standout performance in our Americana Music special this season, won big for his Something More Than Free, including Best Americana Album and American Roots Song. World music queen Angelique Kidjo, who made an unforgettable full-hour ACL debut this season, went home with the Grammy for Best World Music Album.

Shout-outs as well to Mavis Staples, Buddy Guy, Bela Fleck,Glen Campbell, John Legend and Asleep at the Wheel, who each took home a trophy apiece. Well-done! Also congrats to Natalia Lafourcade on her Grammy for Best Latin Rock album – we look forward to her debut ACL taping this May.

Gary Clark Jr. and recently-announced 2016 ACL Hall of Fame inductee Bonnie Raitt paid tribute to the one and only B.B. King, who will also be inducted into ACL’s Hall of Fame this October. And recognizing our incredible legacy, we were proud to see ACL’s esteemed founder Bill Arhos (1934-2015) receive special mention during the In Memoriam segment.

Kudos to these and all the other winners as well – you can find a complete list here. See you next year!