Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
Awarded forquality country music collaborations with vocals
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1988
Last awarded2011
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards,[1] to quality country music collaborations for artists who do not normally perform together.[2] Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".[3]

Originally called the Best Country Vocal Performance, Duet, the award was first presented to Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap at the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988 for the single "Make No Mistake, She's Mine". The next year, the category's name was changed to Best Country Vocal Collaboration, a name it held until 1996 when it was awarded as the Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. In 2011, the category was merged with the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance, forming the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance in order to "tighten the number of categories" at the Grammy Awards.[4]

Alison Krauss holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of five. She is followed by seven others, who have all won the award twice. Among the most nominated are Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson, both nine-time nominees. Krauss was nominated eight times, while Dolly Parton was a seven-time hopeful. Nominated bands include 1996 winners Shenandoah, a five-man country music band, three-time nominees the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, as well as one of the award's final recipients, the Zac Brown Band.

Recipients

A woman wearing a brown jacket and playing a fiddle.
Five-time award winner Alison Krauss
A Caucasian woman with white hair playing a guitar
1999 and 2000 award winner Emmylou Harris
2003 and 2008 award winner Willie Nelson
A face shot of a Caucasian women with black hair and brown eyes
k.d. lang, one of two winners born outside of the United States
2009 award winner Carrie Underwood collaborated with Randy Travis
Year[I] Performing artists Work Nominees Ref.
1988 Ronnie Milsap with Kenny Rogers "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" [5]
1989 Roy Orbison and k.d. lang "Crying" [6]
1990 Hank Williams, Jr. with Hank Williams, Sr. "There's a Tear in My Beer" [7]
1991 Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler "Poor Boy Blues" [8]
1992 Mark O'Connor with Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Steve Wariner "Restless" [9]
1993 Travis Tritt featuring Marty Stuart "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'" [10]
1994 Reba McEntire with Linda Davis "Does He Love You" [11]
1995 Aaron Neville and Trisha Yearwood "I Fall to Pieces" [2]
1996 Shenandoah with Alison Krauss "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" [12]
1997 Vince Gill featuring Alison Krauss & Union Station "High Lonesome Sound" [13]
1998 Trisha Yearwood with Garth Brooks "In Another's Eyes" [14]
1999 Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt and Dwight Yoakam "Same Old Train" [15]
2000 Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton "After the Gold Rush" [16]
2001 Faith Hill with Tim McGraw "Let's Make Love" [17]
2002 Dan Tyminski, Pat Enright and Harley Allen (The Soggy Bottom Boys) "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" [18]
2003 Willie Nelson with Lee Ann Womack "Mendocino County Line" [19]
2004 James Taylor and Alison Krauss "How's the World Treating You" [20]
2005 Loretta Lynn with Jack White "Portland Oregon" [21]
2006 Faith Hill featuring Tim McGraw "Like We Never Loved at All" [22]
2007 Bon Jovi with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland "Who Says You Can't Go Home" [23]
2008 Willie Nelson and Ray Price "Lost Highway" [24]
2009 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss "Killing the Blues" [25]
2010 Carrie Underwood featuring Randy Travis "I Told You So" [26]
2011 Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson "As She's Walking Away" [27]

^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.

See also

References

General
  • "Past Winners Search". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 24, 2011. Note: User must select the "Country" category as the genre under the search feature.
Specific
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  27. ^ "53rd Annual Grammy Awards nominees list". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 20, 2011.

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