Showing posts with label Grammy Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammy Awards. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Sturgill Simpson and Loretta Lynn receive multiple Grammy nominations

Kentucky native, Sturgill Simpson. Photo via Sturgill Simpson Facebook.
Kentucky natives, Loretta Lynn and Sturgill Simpson have been recognized with the list of nominees for the 2017 Grammy Music Awards.  Most notably, Sturgill Simpson is the only country artist in the overall Album of the Year category for his album "A Sailor's Guide to Earth."  That album is also up for Best Country Album, alongside Loretta Lynn's "Full Circle."   Virgie, Kentucky, native, Josh Osborne is up for Best Country Song as one of the songwriters of Miranda Lambert's song, "Vice."

Sturgill Simpson is also a part of the Vinyl: The Essentials Season 1 with his song "Sugar Daddy," which was also the theme song of the television show.  "A Sailor's Guide to Earth" was produced by Sturgill Simpson. Geoff Allan, David Ferguson & Sean Sullivan were engineers/mixers, while Gavin Lurssen was mastering engineer.