You might’ve missed it amidst the celebrity spectacle that is the televised portion of the Grammy Awards, but for the past few years independently-distributed artists have really been representing — many of them winning Grammys, and many more, of course, receiving nominations.
CD Baby is proud to be carrying the following 2017 Grammy-nominated albums, listed here with their award category:
- John Burke – Orogen (Best New Age Album)
- Trio da Paz – 30 (Best Latin Jazz Album)
- Brian Lynch – Medera Latino (Best Latin Jazz Album)
- Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo – Dónde Están (Best Tropical Latin Album)
- Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars – Gulfstream (Best American Roots Song, and Best Regional Roots Album)
- Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands – The Hazel and Alice Sessions (Best Bluegrass Album)
- Vasti Jackson – The Soul of Jimmie Rodgers (Best Traditional Blues Album)
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Walking in the Footsteps of Our Fathers (Best World Music Album)
- C.F. Kip Winger –Conversations with Nijinsky (Best Contemporary Classical Composition)
Congrats to all of these talented artists! And a special word for Jose Lugo who passed away last year from cancer, and who was honored in 2017 with a win in the Tropical Latin Album category.
Oh, and if we missed any nominees who are also CD Baby artists, please holler in the comments below!
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.