GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Country Instrumental Performance
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Best Country Instrumental Performance
53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2010)
nominees
Willow Creek
Tattoo Of A Smudge
Magic #9
New Chance Blues
52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2009)
51st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2008)
winner
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Cluster Pluck
nominees
Sleigh Ride
Is This America? (Katrina 2005)
Sumatra
Two Small Cars In Rome
50th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2007)
49th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2006)
nominees
Gameshow Rag/Cannonball Rag
The Eleventh Reel
Nature Of The Beast
Jerusalem Ridge
48th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2005)
nominees
I'll Fly Away
Who's Your Uncle?
Scotch & Chocolate
Time Warp
47th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2004)
winner
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, Earl's Breakdown
nominees
Billy In The Low Ground
Puppies 'N Knapsacks
Luxury Liner
Bowtie
46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)
nominees
Ain't Chet Yet
Spaghetti Western Swing
Brad Paisley Featuring Redd Volkaert
Pick Along
Get Up John
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)
nominees
Bearing Straight
Sally Goodin
Bear Mountain Hop
Smoothie Song
44th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2001)
winner
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Foggy Mountain Breakdown
nominees
Sugarfoot Rag
Poultry In Motion
Choctaw Hayride
Munster Rag
43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2000)
nominees
Bloodlines (Track)
Ode To A Butterfly (Track)
Rollercoaster (Track)
The Second Mouse (Track)
42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1999)
winner
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Asleep At The Wheel Featuring Tommy Allsup, Floyd Domino, Larry Franklin, Vince Gill & Steve Wariner
nominees
The Harry Shuffle (Track)
Black Mountain Rag (Track)
Doc Watson And Ronnie McCoury (Mac, Doc And Del)
Mr. John Henry, Steel Driving Man (Track)
The Greatest Love Of All Time (Reprise) (Track)
41st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1998)
nominees
Get Up John (Track)
Lonesome Ruben (Track)
Reuben's Train (Track)
(Doc And Merle Watson) With Sam Bush, Marty Stuart, T. Michael Coleman And Alan O'Bryant
The Ride (Track)
Jerry Douglas With Béla Fleck
40th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1997)
nominees
Mama, Screw Your Wig On Tight (Track)
Smokey Mountain Lullaby (Track)
Fat Boy Rag (Track)
Goin' Back To Memphis (Track)
39th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1996)
nominees
Big (Track)
Rawhide (Track)
Scotland (Track)
The Brickyard Boogie (Track)
38th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1995)
nominees
Sally Goodin (Track)
Byron Berline With Bill Monroe And Earl Scruggs
Thunder Road/Sugarfoot Rag (Track)
Doc Watson With Duane Eddy
Cat Walk (Track)
Cheeseballs In Cowtown (Track)
37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)
nominees
Appalachian Dream (Track)
Keep On The Sunny Side (Track)
Marty Stuart Visits The Moon (Track)
36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)
winner
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nominees
The Ballad Of Jed Clampett (Track)
Fiddlin' Around (Track)
Gold Rush (Track)
Jingle Bells (Track)
35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)
nominees
Black And White Rag (Track)
Cotton-Eyed Joe (Track)
Ride The Wild Turkey (Track)
Scotland (Track)
Emmylou Harris And The Nash Ramblers
34th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1991)
nominees
Neck And Neck (Album)
Orange Blossom Special (Track)
The Osborne Brothers
Poultry Promenade (Track)
Song For Jessica (Track)
33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)
nominees
Dawg '90 (Album)
Pedernales Stroll (Track)
Whoa (Track)
Wild Rose (Track)
32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)
nominees
If You've Got The Money (Honey I've Got The Time) (Track)
All I Got Is Gone Away (Track)
Big Foot (Track)
Black And White Rag (Single)
31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)
nominees
Busy Signal (Track)
Country Idyll (Track)
Mason Williams, Chip Davis And Mannheim Steamroller
Still Fiddlin' Around (Single)
The Great Train Song Medley (Track)
30th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1987)
nominees
The Old Brown Country Barn (Track)
Together At Last
Changing Channels (Album)
Gagged But Not Bound (Album)
29th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1986)
nominees
Meanings Of (Album)
Seven By Seven (Track)
Speechless (Album)
Under The Wire (Album)
28th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1985)
nominees
Lasso The Moon (Instrumental) (Track)
Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland (Album)
Windy And Warm (Track)
Folsom Prison Blues (Track)
27th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1984)
nominees
Cotton-Eyed Joe (Single)
East Tennessee Christmas (Album)
Move It On Over (Track)
Twin Sisters (Track)
26th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1983)
nominees
Roller Coaster (Track)
Tara Theme (Track)
Wildwood Flower (Single)
Classic Country I (Track)
Albert Coleman's Atlanta Pops
Doc And Merle Watson's Guitar Album (Album)
Doc And Merle Watson
25th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1982)
nominees
Below Freezing (Track)
Doc And Merle Watson With T. Michael Coleman
Feudin' (Track)
Just Hooked On Country (Album)
Albert Coleman's Atlantic Pops Orchestra
The Joe Maphis Flat-Picking Spectacular (Album)
24th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1981)
nominees
Reflections (Album)
The Texas Fiddle Collection (Album)
Travis Pickin' (Album)
Instrumental Medley: Mountain Dew, Fireball Mail, Old Joe Clark, Night Train, Uncle Joe's Boogie (Track)
23rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1980)
nominees
Cotton Eyed Joe (Single)
Danny Davis And The Nashville Brass
Dallas (Album)
Dance With Me (Single)
The Long Riders (Album)
22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1979)
nominees
Fantastic Pickin' (Album)
Lester Flatt's Nashville Grass
In Concert (Album)
Live From Austin City Limits (Album)
Nashville Jam (Album)
Bluegrass Concerto (Album)
The Osborne Brothers
21st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1978)
nominees
Banjo Bandits (Album)
Roy Clark And Buck Trent
Cookin' Country (Album)
Steel Guitar Rag (Track)
Under The Double Eagle (Single)
20th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1977)
nominees
Me And My Guitar (Album)
Ragtime Annie (Track)
East Bound And Down (Track)
Chet, Floyd And Danny (Album)
19th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1976)
nominees
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain (Single)
I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (Single)
Long Hard Ride (Single)
Texas (Album)
18th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1975)
nominees
Colonel Bogey
Fat Boy Rag (Track)
Vassar Clements (Album)
Charlie My Boy (Album)
17th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1974)
nominees
Boogie Woogie (A/K/A T.D.'s Boogie Woogie) (Single)
Nashville Brass In Blue Grass Country (Album)
The Nashville Hit Man (Album)
The Young And The Restless (Album)
16th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1973)
nominees
Fiddlin' Around (Track)
Good Time Charlie (Album)
I'll Fly Away (Album)
Superpickers (Album)
15th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1972)
nominees
Chet Atkins Picks On The Hits (Album)
Flowers On The Wall (Album)
Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Single)
Me And Chet (Album)
14th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1971)
nominees
For The Good Times (Single)
Jerry Kennedy Plays: With All Due Respect To Kris Kristofferson (Album)
Rose Garden (Album)
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Single)
13th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1970)
nominees
Drivin' Home
Street Singer (Single)
Yestergroovin'
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (Album)
12th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1969)
winner
The Nashville Brass Featuring Danny Davis Play More Nashville Sounds
nominees
Lovin' Season
Nashville Skyline Rag
