Best Bluegrass Album

The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album recognizes excellence in bluegrass recordings performed in vocal or instrumental styles. Eligible recordings utilize bluegrass acoustic instrumentation (fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, and Dobro) and singing style, with production and sensibilities distinctly different from a pop approach.

39th Annual Grammy Awards • 1997

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1995 – September 30, 1996

(Various Artists) won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album with "True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe"

Winners & Nominees 1997

Winner
Nominees

  • True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe

    (Various Artists)

  • Peter Rowan

    Bluegrass Boy (Album)

    Peter Rowan

  • Red On Blonde (Album)

    Tim O'Brien

  • The Cold Hard Facts

    Del McCoury Band

  • The Stanley Tradition - Tribute To A Bluegrass Legacy (Album)

    Various Artists

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2004 Alison Krauss & Union Station Live All Nominees
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2002 Alison Krauss & Union Station New Favorite All Nominees
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2000 Ricky Skaggs Ancient Tones All Nominees
1999 Ricky Skaggs Bluegrass Rules! All Nominees
1998 Alison Krauss & Union Station So Long So Wrong All Nominees
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1994 Nashville Bluegrass Band Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go All Nominees
1993 Alison Krauss Every Time You Say Goodbye All Nominees
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