Nashville Adult Entertainment: Trace Adkins, Dierks Bentley Lead Grammy Crowd

22 01 2010

It’s one of the things that sets the Grammys apart. Some other awards ceremonies have nominations guidelines that restrict potential entries to songs and artists that made the biggest commercial impact. The Grammy process covers a wider range of genres than any other music awards and allows a wider array of nominees. Voters are also required to have been involved in the creative process in some way, and all those factors work together to allows songs that might not fit typically into the mainstream to earn recognition.
Such was the case for Jamey Johnson’s “High Cost Of Living,” up for Best Male Country Vocal and for Best Country Song. References to three-day booze fests, smoking pot in the church parking lot, cocaine and prostitutes pretty much guaranteed it wouldn’t make too many radio playlists, even though it works as a sort of modern-day morality play in which the main character eventually sees the error in his ways. It still made No. 2 on the Nashville Scene’s Country Music Critics Poll of the top singles of 2009. And clearly Grammy voters loved it.

See the full article from “Great American Country (blog)”


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