We round up all the country music news that you might have missed from the last week of November 2020, heading into the festive season, including the Grammy Awards 2021 nominations for country music stars – including historic news from Mickey Guyton. Also, find out about all Destination Country’s events happening this week below – including a live Zoom call with Michael Ray.
1. The Grammy nominations are in for 2021
This week was a historic week of Grammy nominations, including the exciting news that Mickey Guyton received her first nomination making her the first black female country artist to be nominated. Notably, Ingrid Andress has also received a nod for the ‘Best New Artist‘ in the General category. For the ‘Country’ category, the following have been nominated:
Best Country Solo Performance
For new vocal or instrumental solo country recordings.
STICK THAT IN YOUR COUNTRY SONG
Eric Church
WHO YOU THOUGHT I WAS
Brandy Clark
WHEN MY AMY PRAYS
Vince Gill
BLACK LIKE ME
Mickey Guyton
BLUEBIRD
Miranda Lambert
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative country recordings.
ALL NIGHT
Brothers Osborne
10,000 HOURS
Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber
OCEAN
Lady A
SUGAR COAT
Little Big Town
SOME PEOPLE DO
Old Dominion
Best Country Song
A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.
BLUEBIRD
Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby & Miranda Lambert, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)
THE BONES
Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins & Laura Veltz, songwriters (Maren Morris)
CROWDED TABLE
Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby & Lori McKenna, songwriters (The Highwomen)
MORE HEARTS THAN MINE
Ingrid Andress, Sam Ellis & Derrick Southerland, songwriters (Ingrid Andress)
SOME PEOPLE DO
Jesse Frasure, Shane McAnally, Matthew Ramsey & Thomas Rhett, songwriters (Old Dominion)
Best Country Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new country recordings.
LADY LIKE
Ingrid Andress
YOUR LIFE IS A RECORD
Brandy Clark
WILDCARD
Miranda Lambert
NIGHTFALL
Little Big Town
NEVER WILL
Ashley McBryde
2. Michael Ray will join Destination Country for a Happy (Half) Hour on the 1st December
Michael Ray will be joining the Destination Country team for a Happy (Half) Hour on Tuesday 1st December at 7pm GMT, so you’ve only got a few days left to secure your place!
Register for the free event here and let us know if you have a question to ask Michael (priority will be given to our DC Family subscribers – more information here).
3. for KING and COUNTRY will join Destination Country for a live show on the 6th December on Facebook
4. Jon Pardi marries Summer Duncan in Tennessee
5. Morgan Wallen set to make his SNL debut on December 5th
After the cancellation of his debut when videos circulated of him partying mask-less back in October, the hitmaker is now set to make his SNL debut on December 5th.
6. Florida Georgia Line make genre history with two diamond singles for ‘Cruise’ and ‘Meant to Be’
7. Dan + Shay win big at the AMAs
The duo took home three awards at the 2020 American Music Awards on Sunday night (22/11) — two more than any other country artist nominated – for Favorite Duo or Group Country, Favorite Country Song and the all-genre Collaboration of the Year award, for “10,000 Hours,” making them the first country artists to win this collaboration award.
