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Brandi Carlileis proud to be an Americana artist.
On Wednesday, the “Broken Horses” songstress expressed her “disappointment” with the Recording Academy after her track “Right on Time” was assigned to the pop category instead of American Roots on the ballot for next year’sGrammy Awards.
“While I’m incredibly flattered to be considered ‘pop’ as a 40-year-old crooning lesbian mother, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit surprised and disappointed to learn the Recording Academy decided to move ‘Right On Time’ out of the American Roots genre and into the pop category,” she wrote.
Earlier in her statement, the singer expressed how Americana is “more than a genre” to her and how it represents her community and her “beautiful island of misfits.”
“I am also proud that it represents a great number of people actively WORKING to platform marginalized people - LGBTQIA, women, and people of color (who, of course, actually built the genre),” she wrote. “The importance of staying and working within Americana is greater than just me. There is not a moment where I don’t view my role as something larger.”
The singer referred to her back-to-back artist of the year awards from the Americana Association and how she debuted at No. 1 onBillboard’s Americana chart with both her last albumBy the Way, I Forgive Youand her most recent.In These Silent Days.
“It was an honor to have made my album at the same place I made my last one….and with all the same folks! Same producers and band. I cut every song live with acoustic guitars, vintage electrics plugged into old fender amps, beautifully aged pianos and with my fog horn vocals bleeding into every mic,” she wrote.
At the 2019Grammy Awards, her albumBy the Way, I Forgive Youtook home the award for best Americana album, while “The Joke” won for both best American Roots performance and song. (“The Joke” was also up for record and song of the year that year.)
And at both the 2020 and 2021 Grammys, she took home the award for best country song for “Bring My Flowers Now” and “Crowded Table,” respectively. She also won best country album forWhile I’m Livin’in 2020. (She was first nominated for an award in 2016 forThe Firewatcher’s Daughterin the best Americana album category.)
The category change for Carlile comes after Kacey Musgraveslearned that her albumStar-Crossedwould not be considered country, several years after winning album of the year for country LPGolden Hour. Musgraves, for her part, shared photos of herself with country music’s biggest stars on her Instagram Stories.
“You can take the girl out of the country (genre) but you can’t take the country out of the girl,” she wrote.
source: people.com
