Congratulations to five-time GRAMMY winners and Gospel Music Hall of Famers The Blind Boys of Alabama on their 2024 Grammy nominations for Best American Roots Performance (“Heaven Help Us All,”) Best Americana Performance (“Friendship”) and Best Roots Gospel Album (Echoes of the South). With today’s nominations, which are the most-ever in a single year for the group, The Blind Boys of Alabama are now 16-time Grammy nominees.

Bluegrass supergroup Mighty Poplar has clinched the nomination for Best Bluegrass Album from the 2023 GRAMMY Awards! Featuring Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse, Chris "Critter" Eldridge and Noam Pikelny of Punch Brothers, Greg Garrison of Leftover Salmon, and Alex Hargreaves of Billy Strings' band, this powerhouse of pickers wowed audience with a boldly innovative and passionately curious debut album.

Congratulations to Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens on her Grammy nominations for Best Americana Album for her album You’re The One (Nonesuch) and Best American Roots Performance for her song “You Louisiana Man” from You’re The One. Giddens is a 2-time GRAMMY Award winner and with today’s nominations, now a 10-time nominee. Her previous album, 2021's They're Calling Me Home, won the GRAMMY award for Best Folk Album.

Today, North Carolina-based alternative rock sextet Big Something unveils their newest single, "Clouds Unplugged” featuring Justin Osborne of SUSTO. The haunting new track heralds the upcoming release of the band’s seventh full-length studio album, Headspace, arriving November 17th via Truth Serum Records.

Jim Mitchell, the enduring figure of outlaw country, is poised to unveil his latest musical narrative, "Repeat Offender," on November 17th through Mother West. This is his fourth studio journey, and it's a profound distillation of a life lived at the edges - a mosaic of triumphs and trials, both within the industry and beyond. Rejecting the gloss of contemporary country-pop, Mitchell's new album stands as a testament to raw, unvarnished storytelling.

97.3 KBCO will release 18 new gifts for the holiday season exclusively performed live on the air in the station’s performance studio, KBCO Studio C. KBCO Studio C Volume 35 will go on sale starting at 7am, December 2nd at five select Front Range Colorado Whole Foods Market locations.

Critically acclaimed duo The Milk Carton Kids are nominated for “Best Folk Album” for their new record I Only See The Moon at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

Tyler Childers is nominated for five awards at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards: Best Country Album (Rustin’ In The Rain), Best Country Song (“In Your Love”), Best Country Solo Performance (“In Your Love”), Best Music Video (“In Your Love”) and Best Americana Performance (“Help Me Make It Through the Night”). The awards ceremony will broadcast live on CBS from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena Sunday, February 4 at 8:00pm ET.

Acclaimed artist Madison Cunningham is nominated for “Best American Roots Performance” for “Inventing the Wheel” at the 66th Annual GRAMMY® Awards.

This is Cunningham’s fifth GRAMMY® nomination. Revealer was released last year to widespread critical acclaim and took home the GRAMMY® Award for Best Folk Album at the 65th Annual ceremony. Cunningham earned nods for “Best Folk Album” for Wednesday (Extended Edition), “Best Americana Album” for Who Are You Now and “Best American Roots Performance” for “Life According to Raechel.”

On Wedneday night, at the 57th Annual CMA Awards, the illustrious singer/songwriter, musician and producer Mac McAnally graced the awards stage alongside celebrated artists Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson and Zac Brown Band to pay homage to the beloved late Jimmy Buffett. Together, Chesney and McAnally delivered a heartfelt rendition of Buffett's classic hit, "A Pirate Looks at Forty." This iconic song, both written and performed by Buffett, made its debut on his 1974 album, A-1-A. The performance can be enjoyed here.