Grammy Awards: The Winners, Including Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus & More

Grammy Awards: The Winners, Including Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus & More

Check out all of the country-centric winners from the 2020 Grammy Awards on Jan. 26.

Best Country Solo Performance
  • “All Your’n” | Tyler Childers
  • “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” | Ashley McBryde
  • “Ride Me Back Home” | Willie Nelson WINNER
  • “God’s Country” | Blake Shelton
  • “Bring My Flowers Now” | Tanya Tucker

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

  • “Brand New Man” | Brooks & Dunn With Luke Combs
  • “I Don’t Remember Me (Before You)” | Brothers Osborne
  • “Speechless” | Dan + Shay WINNER
  • “The Daughters” | Little Big Town
  • “Common” | Maren Morris feat. Brandi Carlile

Best Country Song (awarded to songwriters)

  • “Bring My Flowers Now” | Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker | (Tanya Tucker) WINNER
  • “Girl Goin’ Nowhere | Jeremy Bussey & Ashley McBryde | (Ashley McBryde)
  • “It All Comes Out in the Wash” | Miranda Lambert, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna & Liz Rose | (Miranda Lambert)
  • “Some of It” | Eric Church, Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde & Bobby Pinson | (Eric Church)
  • “Speechless” | Shay Mooney, Jordan Reynolds, Dan Smyers & Laura Veltz | (Dan + Shay)

Best Country Album

  • Desperate Man | Eric Church
  • Stronger Than the Truth | Reba McEntire
  • Interstate Gospel | Pistol Annies
  • Center Point Road | Thomas Rhett
  • While I’m Livin’ | Tanya Tucker WINNER

Song of the Year

  • “Always Remember Us This Way” | Lady Gaga –
  • “Bad Guy” | Billie Eilish WINNER
  • “Bring My Flowers Now” | Brandi Carlile
  • “Hard Place” | H.E.R.
  • “Lover” | Taylor Swift
  • “Norman F**king Rockwell” | Lana Del Rey
  • “Someone You Loved” | Lewis Capaldi
  • “Truth Hurts” | Lizzo

Record of the Year

  • “Hey Ma,” Bon Iver
  • “Bad Guy,” Billie Eilish WINNER
  • “Seven Rings,” Ariana Grande
  • “Hard Place,” H.E.R.
  • “Talk,” Khalid
  • “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X  feat. Billy Ray Cyrus
  • “Truth Hurts,” Lizzo
  • “Sunflower,” Post Malone and Swae Lee

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

  • “Boyfriend” | Ariana Grande & the Social House
  • “Sucker” | The Jonas Brothers
  • “Old Town Road” | Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus WINNER
  • “Sunflower” | Post Malone feat. Swae Lee
  • “Señorita” | Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

Best Song Written for Visual Media

  • “The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy” | Chris Stapleton
  • “Girl in the Movies” | Dolly Parton and Linda Perry
  • “I’ll Never Love Again” | Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper WINNER
  • “Spirit” | Beyoncé
  • “Suspirium” | Thom Yorke

Best Music Video

  • “We’ve Got to Try” | The Chemical Brothers
  • “This Land” | Gary Clark Jr.
  • “Cellophane” | FKA Twigs
  • “Old Town Road” | Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus WINNER
  • “Glad He’s Gone” | Tove Lo

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

  • “Only Jesus” | Casting Crowns; Mark Hall, Bernie Herms & Matthew West, songwriters
  • “God Only Knows” | for KING & COUNTRY & Dolly Parton; Josh Kerr, Jordan Reynolds, Joel Smallbone, Luke Smallbone & Tedd Tjornhom, songwriters WINNER
  • “Haven’t Seen It Yet” | Danny Gokey; Danny Gokey, Ethan Hulse & Colby Wedgeworth, songwriters
  • “God’s Not Done With You” | Tauren Wells
  • “Rescue Story” | Zach Williams; Ethan Hulse, Andrew Ripp, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters

Best American Roots Performance

  • “Saint Honesty” | Sara Bareilles WINNER
  • “Father Mountain” | Calexico And Iron & Wine
  • “I’m On My Way” | Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi
  • “Call My Name” | I’m With Her
  • “Faraway Look” | Yola

Best American Roots Song

  • “Black Myself” | Amythyst Kiah, Songwriter (Our Native Daughters)
  • “Call My Name” | Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’donovan & Sara Watkins, Songwriters (I’m With Her) WINNER
  • “Crossing To Jerusalem” | Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, Songwriters (Rosanne Cash)
  • “Faraway Look” | Dan Auerbach, Yola Carter & Pat Mclaughlin, Songwriters (Yola)
  • “I Don’t Wanna Ride The Rails No More” | Vince Gill, Songwriter (Vince Gill)

Best Americana Album

  • “Years To Burn” | Calexico And Iron & Wine
  • “Who Are You Now” | Madison Cunningham
  • “Oklahoma” | Keb’ Mo’ WINNER
  • “Tales Of America” | J.S. Ondara
  • “Walk Through Fire” | Yola

Best Bluegrass Album

  • “Tall Fiddler” | Michael Cleveland WINNER
  • “Live In Prague, Czech Republic” | Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
  • “Toil, Tears & Trouble” | The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys
  • “Royal Traveller” | Missy Raines
  • “If You Can’t Stand The Heat” | Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen

Best Folk Album

  • My Finest Work Yet, Andrew Bird
  • Rearrange My Heart, Che Apalache
  • Patty Griffin, Patty Griffin WINNER
  • Evening Machines, Gregory Alan Isakov
  • Front Porch, Joy Williams

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