Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song

Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song
Gilded gramophone trophy presented to Grammy Award winners
Awarded for	quality songwriting in the American Roots subgenres (folk, bluegrass, regional roots music, etc.)
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First awarded	2014
Official website	grammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best American Roots Song is a new award category at the annual Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality songs in the American Roots Music genres such as blues, bluegrass, folk, Americana and regional roots music. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".

The award was first approved by the Board of Trustees of the Grammy Awards in Spring 2013.

The award was first presented at the 2014 Grammy Awards ceremony to Edie Brickell and Steve Martin, the songwriters of the awarded song.

Recipients

Year	Winning songwriter(s)	Title	Performer(s)	Other nominees	Ref.
2014	Edie Brickell and Steve Martin	Love Has Come for You	Steve Martin and Edie Brickell	Steve Earle – Invisible (performed by Steve Earle & The Dukes & The Duchesses) Sarah Jarosz – Build Me Up from Bones (performed by Sarah Jarosz) Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott – Keep Your Dirty Lights On (performed by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott) Allen Toussaint – Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed (performed by Allen Toussaint)
2015	Rosanne Cash	A Feather's Not a Bird	Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal	Jesse Winchester - Just So Much, performed by Jesse Winchester Woody Guthrie & Del McCoury - The New York Trains, performed by Del McCoury Band Edie Brickell & Steve Martin - Pretty Little One, performed by Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers ft. Edie Brickell John Hiatt - Terms of My Surrender, performed by John Hiatt
2016	Jason Isbell	"24 Frames"	Jason Isbell	Raul Malo – "All Night Long", performed by The Mavericks Don Henley and Stan Lynch – "The Cost of Living", performed by Don Henley and Merle Haggard Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert, Noam Pikelny, Chris Thile and Gabe Witcher – "Julep", performed by Punch Brothers Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris – "The Traveling Kind", performed by Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell

See also

• List of Grammy Award categories