I caught enough of the Grammys the other night to see Paul Williams speak on behalf of Daft Punk and to watch the credits awkwardly roll in the middle of a Queens of the Stone Age song as the crowd thinned out.
But I was very excited to see the complete list of winners yesterday. Why? Well, contrary to the Pop Culture spectacle you see on TV, independently-distributed acts are actually WINNING Grammys, including a number of artists that sell their music worldwide through CD Baby.
Many congratulations to:
Snarky Puppy w/ Lalah Hathaway
Paquito D’Rivera And Trio Corrente
Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
For a complete list of Grammy winners and nominees in each category, click HERE.
What was your favorite album from the last year (either Grammy-nominated or not)? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.