According to The Tennessean, the genre’s other multiple nominees include Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Sam Hunt and Midland – Big Machine Label Group’s new alt-retro trio that found success with its debut single “Drinkin’ Problem.”
Taylor Swift found her way back into the country categories – this time as a songwriter. She was the sole songwriter on Little Big Town’s nominated “Better Man.” Last year’s Best New Artist nominee Maren Morris received a nod in Best Country Solo Performance for her current single “I Could Use a Love Song.” She won the category last year for her performance of “My Church.” In addition, Brothers Osborne and Zac Brown Band each have one nomination.
More surprising than the country nominees is perhaps who – and what – was left out.
Lambert’s platinum-selling critically acclaimed double album “The Weight of These Wings” wasn’t included in the country albums category, nods that instead went to Stapleton, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town and Thomas Rhett. Dolly Parton’s first children’s album “I Believe in You” was unexpectedly absent from Best Children’s Album. And Grammy darlings Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, who presented on last year’s award show and whose debut duets album “The Rest of Our Life” just topped Billboard’s country albums chart, was unpredictably vacant from the nominees list.
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