Three Grammy-winning albums distributed by CD Baby!
Our friends at A2IM published an article listing all the recent Grammy-winning titles that were released by independent labels, accounting for 36 out of 84 award categories.
Depending on your perspective, it might seem strange to recognize Big Machine and Sub Pop as indie (since they’re almost household names) but that’s exactly what they are, and their achievements are all the more impressive because of their relative independence from the majors.
But it’s not just “big” indies who won this year.
Of the fifteen titles CD Baby distributes that were nominated for a Grammy this year, three of them won!
Congratulations to:
- Pablo Ziegler Trio, for Jazz Tango (Best Latin Jazz Album)
- Lost Bayou Ramblers, for Kalenda (Best Regional Roots Music Album)
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo, for Shaka Zulu Revisited (Best World Music Album)
Were you at the Grammys? Did your album get a nomination or consideration? Let me know about it 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.