Fwd: RE: [Harp-L] Dermody on Grammy nominated album

["John Kuzloski" <jkuzloski@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Tom Ball <havaball@...> wrote:

John wrote:
Just heard through the grapevine that The Blues 
Ain't News got nominated for a grammy (best 
traditional blues).Ý The album is Mike Dowling's 
(blues/swing/slide guitar ace), and Grant Dermody 
(harmonca player/teacher/ and sometimes harp-ler) 
plays harp on a few.Ý Grant's playing on It Hurts 
Me, Too is especially fine.Ý Congrats.Ý
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Hi John,
Both Grant and Mike are terrific players (as well 
as friends,) but I'm afraid you're a bit 
premature. The (first round) Nominating Ballots 
were just mailed out last week. These include 
1000s of CDs -- virtually everything released in 
the past year. Voting to determine the five 
nominees per category goes on until Nov 5, and 
the actual nominations aren't announced until Dec 
3.

As a NARAS member, I'll be casting my vote to nominate Grant and Mike 
tho...

cheers,
Tom


So sorry about the Grammy confusion.  The "grapevine" gave me some 
quick shorthand that wasn't exactly right.  I did a little double 
checking and I believe this is the situation:
"The Blues Ain't News" has been selected for inclusion on 
an "Eligible Entries" list that will be voted upon in the Grammy 
category, "Best Traditional Blues". Its NOT a nomination, but the CD 
has made it onto a ballot list of 55 recordings in this category, 
from which voting members of the Academy of Recording Arts and 
Sciences will select five for final nomination. 
--John K.


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