GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Country Instrumental Performance

Alison Krauss & Union Station

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Track From: Asleep At The Wheel Remembers The Alamo
Label: Shout! Factory

Puppies 'N Knapsacks

Sam Bush

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Track From: King Of My World
Label: Sugar Hill Records

Luxury Liner

Albert Lee, Vince Gill & Brad Paisley

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Track From: Heartbreak Hill
Label: Sugar Hill Records

Bowtie

Mark O'Connor, Chris Thile, Bryan Sutton & Byron House

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Track From: Mark O'Connor Thirty-Year Retrospective
Label: OMAC Records

46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)

winner

Cluck Old Hen

nominees

Ain't Chet Yet

Ray Benson

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Track From: Beyond Time
Label: Audium Records

Spaghetti Western Swing

Brad Paisley Featuring Redd Volkaert

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Track From: Mud On The Tires
Label: Arista Nashville

Pick Along

Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson & Ricky Skaggs

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Track From: The Three Pickers
Label: Rounder Records

Get Up John

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

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Track From: Live At The Charleston Music Hall
Label: Skaggs Family Records

45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)

winner

Lil' Jack Slade

Dixie Chicks

nominees

Bearing Straight

Bering Strait

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Label: Universal South

Sally Goodin

The Chieftains & Earl Scruggs

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Track From: Down The Old Plank Road
Label: RCA Victor

Bear Mountain Hop

Béla Fleck

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Track From: The Country Bears (Various Artists)
Label: Walt Disney

Smoothie Song

Nickel Creek

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Track From: This Side
Label: Sugar Hill, Inc.

44th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2001)

winner

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Earl Scruggs, Glen Duncan, Randy Scruggs, Steve Martin, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Gary Scruggs, Albert Lee, Paul Shaffer, Jerry Douglas & Leon Russell

nominees

Sugarfoot Rag

Asleep At The Wheel & Brad Paisley

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Track From: The Very Best Of Asleep At The Wheel
Label: Relentless/Nashville

Poultry In Motion

Bill Kirchen

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Track From: Tied To The Wheel
Label: Hightone

Choctaw Hayride

Alison Krauss + Union Station

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Track From: New Favorite
Label: Rounder

Munster Rag

Brad Paisley

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Track From: Part II
Label: Arista Nashville

43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2000)

winner

Leaving Cottondale

Alison Brown & Béla Fleck

nominees

Bloodlines (Track)

Steve Wariner & Ryan Wariner

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Track From: Faith In You
Label: Capitol Nashville

Ode To A Butterfly (Track)

Nickel Creek

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Track From: Nickel Creek
Label: Sugar Hill, Inc.

Rollercoaster (Track)

Keith Urban

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Track From: Keith Urban
Label: Capitol Nashville

The Second Mouse (Track)

Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott

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Track From: Real Time
Label: Howdy Skies

42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1999)

winner

Bob's Breakdowns

Asleep At The Wheel Featuring Tommy Allsup, Floyd Domino, Larry Franklin, Vince Gill & Steve Wariner

nominees

The Harry Shuffle (Track)

Steve Wariner

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Track From: Two Teardrops
Label: Capitol Nashville

Black Mountain Rag (Track)

Doc Watson And Ronnie McCoury (Mac, Doc And Del)

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Track From: Mac, Doc And Del
Label: Sugar Hill

Mr. John Henry, Steel Driving Man (Track)

Marty Stuart And Earl Scruggs

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Track From: The Pilgrim
Label: Mca Nashville

The Greatest Love Of All Time (Reprise) (Track)

Marty Stuart

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Track From: The Pilgrim
Label: Mca Nashville

41st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1998)

winner

A Soldier's Joy

Randy Scruggs & Vince Gill

nominees

Get Up John (Track)

Ricky Skaggs And Kentucky Thunder

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Track From: Bluegrass Rules!
Label: Skaggs Family

Lonesome Ruben (Track)

Randy Scruggs, Earl Scruggs And Jerry Douglas

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Track From: Crown Of Jewels
Label: Reprise

Reuben's Train (Track)

(Doc And Merle Watson) With Sam Bush, Marty Stuart, T. Michael Coleman And Alan O'Bryant

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Track From: Home Sweet Home
Label: Sugar Hill

The Ride (Track)

Jerry Douglas With Béla Fleck

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Track From: Restless On The Farm
Label: Sugar Hill

40th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1997)

winner

Little Liza Jane

Alison Krauss & Union Station

nominees

Mama, Screw Your Wig On Tight (Track)

Lee Roy Parnell

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Track From: Every Night's A Saturday Night
Label: Career

Smokey Mountain Lullaby (Track)

Chet Atkins With Tommy Emmanuel

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Track From: The Day Finger Pickers Took Over The World
Label: Columbia Nashville

Fat Boy Rag (Track)

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Track From: Back To The Future Now Live At Arizona Charlie's Las Vegas
Label: Epic/Lucky Dog

Goin' Back To Memphis (Track)

Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana And Bill Black Combo

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Track From: All The King's Men
Label: Sweetfish

39th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1996)

winner

Jam Man

nominees

Big (Track)

Diamond Rio

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Track From: IV
Label: Arista

Rawhide (Track)

Ronnie McCoury, David Grier, Stuart Duncan, Craig Smith And Todd Phillips

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Track From: True Life Blues: The Songs Of Bill Monroe (Various Artists)
Label: Sugar Hill

Scotland (Track)

Vassar Clements, Richard Greene, Chris Thile, Scott Nygaard And Todd Phillips

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Track From: True Life Blues: The Songs Of Bill Monroe
Label: Sugar Hill

The Brickyard Boogie (Track)

Steve Wariner With Bryan White, Derek George, Bryan Austin And Jeffrey Steele

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Track From: No More Mr. Nice Guy (Steve Wariner)
Label: Arista

38th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1995)

winner

Hightower

Asleep At The Wheel Featuring Béla Fleck & Johnny Gimble

nominees

Sally Goodin (Track)

Byron Berline With Bill Monroe And Earl Scruggs

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Track From: Fiddle And A Song
Label: Sugar Hill

Thunder Road/Sugarfoot Rag (Track)

Doc Watson With Duane Eddy

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Track From: Docabilly
Label: Sugar Hill

Cat Walk (Track)

Flaco Jimenez And Lee Roy Parnell

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Track From: Flaco Jimenez
Label: Arista Texas

Cheeseballs In Cowtown (Track)

Béla Fleck

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Track From: Tales From The Acoustic Planet
Label: Warner Bros.

37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)

winner

Young Thing

nominees

Appalachian Dream (Track)

Diamond Rio

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Track From: Love A Little Stronger
Label: Arista

Kaw-Liga (Track)

Roy Clark And Joe Pass

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Track From: Roy Clark And Joe Pass Play Hank Williams
Label: Buster Ann Music

Keep On The Sunny Side (Track)

Randy Scruggs, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson

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Track From: Red Hot + Country (Various Artists)
Label: Mercury

Marty Stuart Visits The Moon (Track)

Marty Stuart

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Track From: Love And Luck
Label: Mca

36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)

winner

Red Wing

Asleep At The Wheel Featuring Eldon Shamblin, Johnny Gimble, Chet Atkins, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart & Reuben "Lucky Oceans" Gosfield

nominees

The Ballad Of Jed Clampett (Track)

John McEuen

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Track From: String Wizards II
Label: Vanguard

Fiddlin' Around (Track)

Mark O'Connor And Johnny Gimble

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Track From: Heroes
Label: Warner Bros.

Gold Rush (Track)

Mark O'Connor And Byron Berline

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Track From: Heroes
Label: Warner Bros.

Jingle Bells (Track)

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Track From: Christmas in Branson, MO. USA
Label: Laserlight Digital

35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)

winner

Sneakin' Around

Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed

nominees

Black And White Rag (Track)

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Track From: Greatest Hits - Live And Kickin'
Label: Arista

Cotton-Eyed Joe (Track)

The Chieftains with Ricky Skaggs

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Track From: Another Country
Label: RCA Victor

Ride The Wild Turkey (Track)

Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler

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Track From: Slide Rule
Label: Sugar Hill

Scotland (Track)

Emmylou Harris And The Nash Ramblers

–

34th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1991)

winner

The New Nashville Cats

Mark O'Connor

nominees

Neck And Neck (Album)

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Label: Columbia

Orange Blossom Special (Track)

The Osborne Brothers

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Track From: Hillbilly Fever
Label: Cmh

Poultry Promenade (Track)

Diamond Rio

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Track From: Diamond Rio
Label: Arista

Song For Jessica (Track)

Norton Buffalo And Roy Rogers

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Track From: R&B
Label: Blind Pig

33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)

winner

So Soft, Your Goodbye

Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler

nominees

Dawg '90 (Album)

David Grisman

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Label: Acoustic Disc

Pedernales Stroll (Track)

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Track From: Keepin' Me Up Nights
Label: Arista

Whoa (Track)

Foster And Lloyd

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Track From: Version Of The Truth
Label: RCA

Wild Rose (Track)

Wild Rose

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Track From: Breaking New Ground
Label: Capitol

32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)

winner

Amazing Grace

Randy Scruggs

nominees

If You've Got The Money (Honey I've Got The Time) (Track)

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Track From: Plant Early
Label: Mca Master Series

All I Got Is Gone Away (Track)

John Hartford

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Track From: Down On The River
Label: Flying Fish

Big Foot (Track)

New Grass Revival

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Track From: Friday Night In America
Label: Capitol

Black And White Rag (Single)

–

Label: Asleep At The Wheel Music

31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)

winner

Sugarfoot Rag

Carlton Moody And The Moody Brothers

nominees

Busy Signal (Track)

Leo Kottke

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Track From: Regards From Chuck Pink
Label: Private Music

Country Idyll (Track)

Mason Williams, Chip Davis And Mannheim Steamroller

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Track From: Classical Gas
Label: American Gramaphone

Still Fiddlin' Around (Single)

Johnny Gimble

–

Label: Mca

The Great Train Song Medley (Track)

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Track From: Do The Sugar Foot Rag
Label: Lamon

30th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1987)

winner

String Of Pars

nominees

The Old Brown Country Barn (Track)

Bill Monroe

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Track From: Bluegrass '87
Label: Mca

Together At Last

Stephane Grappelli And Vassar Clements

–

Label: Flying Fish

Changing Channels (Album)

–

Label: Mca Master Series

Gagged But Not Bound (Album)

Albert Lee

–

Label: Mca

29th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1986)

winner

Raisin' The Dickins

Ricky Skaggs

nominees

Meanings Of (Album)

Mark O'Connor

–

Label: Warner Bros.

Seven By Seven (Track)

New Grass Revival

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Track From: New Grass Revival
Label: Emi America

Speechless (Album)

Albert Lee

–

Label: Mca Master Series

Under The Wire (Album)

–

Label: Mca Master Series

28th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1985)

winner

Cosmic Square Dance

Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler

nominees

Lasso The Moon (Instrumental) (Track)

Dave Holland, Vassar Clements, John Hartford

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Track From: Music From Rustlers' Rhapsody And Other Songs
Label: Warner Bros.

Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland (Album)

–

Label: Rounder

Windy And Warm (Track)

Merle Watson And Doc Watson

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Track From: Pickin' The Blues
Label: Flying Fish

Folsom Prison Blues (Track)

Earl Scruggs

–

Track From: American-Made, World-Played
Label: Columbia/Cbs

27th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1984)

winner

Wheel Hoss

Ricky Skaggs

nominees

Cotton-Eyed Joe (Single)

Carlton Moody And The Moody Brothers

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Label: Lamon

East Tennessee Christmas (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

Move It On Over (Track)

The Whites

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Track From: Forever You
Label: Mca/Curb

Twin Sisters (Track)

Doc Watson And Merle Watson

–

Track From: Down South
Label: Sugar Hill

26th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1983)

winner

Fireball

The New South

nominees

Roller Coaster (Track)

Earl Scruggs

–

Track From: Top Of The World
Label: Columbia

Tara Theme (Track)

–

Track From: Work It Out With Chet Atkins
Label: Columbia

Wildwood Flower (Single)

–

Label: Churchill

Classic Country I (Track)

Albert Coleman's Atlanta Pops

–

Track From: Classic Country
Label: Epic/Cbs

Doc And Merle Watson's Guitar Album (Album)

Doc And Merle Watson

–

Label: Flying Fish

25th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1982)

winner

Alabama Jubilee

nominees

Below Freezing (Track)

Doc And Merle Watson With T. Michael Coleman

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Track From: Red Rocking Chair
Label: Flying Fish

Feudin' (Track)

Poco

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Track From: Cowboys And Englishmen
Label: Mca

Just Hooked On Country (Album)

Albert Coleman's Atlantic Pops Orchestra

–

Label: Epic/Cbs

The Joe Maphis Flat-Picking Spectacular (Album)

Joe Maphis

–

Label: Cmh

24th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1981)

winner

Country After All These Years

Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band

nominees

Reflections (Album)

Chet Atkins And Doc Watson

–

Label: RCA

The Texas Fiddle Collection (Album)

Johnny Gimble

–

Label: Cmh

Travis Pickin' (Album)

Merle Travis

–

Label: Cmh

Instrumental Medley: Mountain Dew, Fireball Mail, Old Joe Clark, Night Train, Uncle Joe's Boogie (Track)

Barbara Mandrell

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Track From: Mandrell Live
Label: Mca

23rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1980)

winner

Orange Blossom Special/Hoedown

nominees

Cotton Eyed Joe (Single)

Danny Davis And The Nashville Brass

–

Label: RCA

Dallas (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Dance With Me (Single)

–

Label: RCA

The Long Riders (Album)

Ry Cooder

–

Label: Warner Bros.

22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1979)

winner

Big Sandy/Leather Britches

Doc Watson & Merle Watson

nominees

Fantastic Pickin' (Album)

Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass

–

Label: Cmh

In Concert (Album)

Vassar Clements, Doug Jernigan, Jesse McReynolds, Buddy Spicher

–

Label: RCA

Live From Austin City Limits (Album)

Nashville Super Pickers

–

Nashville Jam (Album)

–

Label: Flying Fish

Bluegrass Concerto (Album)

The Osborne Brothers

–

Label: Cmh

21st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1978)

winner

One O'Clock Jump

nominees

Banjo Bandits (Album)

Roy Clark And Buck Trent

–

Label: Dot/ABC

Cookin' Country (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Steel Guitar Rag (Track)

–

Label: Dot/ABC

Under The Double Eagle (Single)

Doc Watson And Merle Watson

–

Label: United Artists

20th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1977)

winner

Country Instrumentalist Of The Year

Hargus "Pig" Robbins

nominees

Me And My Guitar (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Ragtime Annie (Track)

–

Track From: The Wheel
Label: Capitol

East Bound And Down (Track)

Jerry Reed

–

Label: Mca

Chet, Floyd And Danny (Album)

Chet Atkins, Danny Davis, Floyd Cramer

–

Label: RCA

19th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1976)

winner

Chester And Lester

Chet Atkins & Les Paul

nominees

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain (Single)

Ace Cannon

–

Label: Hi

I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (Single)

–

Label: RCA

Long Hard Ride (Single)

Marshall Tucker Band

–

Label: Capricorn

Texas (Album)

–

Label: RCA

18th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1975)

winner

The Entertainer

nominees

Colonel Bogey

Chet Atkins And Jerry Reed

–

Label: RCA

Fat Boy Rag (Track)

–

Track From: Texas Gold
Label: Capitol

Vassar Clements (Album)

Vassar Clements

–

Label: Mercury

Charlie My Boy (Album)

–

Label: Monument

17th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1974)

winner

The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show

Chet Atkins & Merle Travis

nominees

Boogie Woogie (A/K/A T.D.'s Boogie Woogie) (Single)

Jerry Barefoot And Charlie McCoy

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Label: Monument

Nashville Brass In Blue Grass Country (Album)

–

Label: RCA

The Nashville Hit Man (Album)

–

Label: Monument

The Young And The Restless (Album)

Steve Mandell & Eric Weissberg

–

Label: RCA

16th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1973)

winner

Dueling Banjos

nominees

Fiddlin' Around (Track)

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Track From: Superpickers
Label: RCA

Good Time Charlie (Album)

–

Label: Monument

I'll Fly Away (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Superpickers (Album)

–

Label: RCA

15th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1972)

winner

Charlie McCoy/The Real McCoy

nominees

Chet Atkins Picks On The Hits (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Flowers On The Wall (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Single)

Lester Flatt

–

Label: RCA

Me And Chet (Album)

Chet Atkins And Jerry Reed

–

Label: RCA

14th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1971)

winner

Snowbird

nominees

For The Good Times (Single)

–

Label: RCA

Jerry Kennedy Plays: With All Due Respect To Kris Kristofferson (Album)

Jerry Kennedy

–

Label: Mercury

Rose Garden (Album)

Bakersfield Brass

–

Label: Capitol

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Single)

–

Label: RCA

13th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1970)

winner

Me And Jerry

Jerry Reed & Chet Atkins

nominees

Drivin' Home

Jerry Smith

–

Label: Decca

Street Singer (Single)

Merle Haggard

–

Label: Capitol

Yestergroovin'

–

Label: RCA

You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (Album)

–

Label: RCA

12th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1969)

winner

The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds

nominees

Lovin' Season

–

Label: RCA

Nashville Skyline Rag

Bob Dylan

–

Label: Columbia

Solid Gold '69