2009 Grammy Winners

In years past the Grammy Awards meant a lot more than glitz and glitter, who was walking the red carpet, and who wore what. It was about the MUSIC! As the years have gone by more categories have been added to where there is a total of 110 separate awards given out. Today we are lucky to see 10 of those awards; whereas, the television broadcast presented many of the awards with only the music from the major categories. Fans got to see and hear their favourite star perform songs nominated for the top awards. There was only one Lifetime Achievement Award that was presented with much pomp and circumstance similar to that seen on the Kennedy Center Honours. The Grammy Awards have become a showcase of collaborations with the award taking second place almost as an also ran.

Here is a complete listing of all the winners from the fifty-first annual Grammy Awards.

Record of the Year: "Please Read the Letter" sung by Robert Plant and Alison Kraus; produced by T Bone Burnett; and engineered by Mike Piersante

Album of the Year: "Raising Sand" by Robert Plant and Alison Krause; produced by T. Bone Burnett; and engineered by Mike Piersante and Gavin Lurssen

Song of the Year: "Viva La Vida" sung by Coldplay and written by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, and Chris Martin

Best New Artist: Adele

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: "Chasing Pavements" by Adele

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Say" by John Mayer

Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay

Best Pop Vocal Collaboration: "Rich Woman" by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Best Pop Instrumental Performance: "I Dreamed There Was No War" by the Eagles

Best Pop Instrumental Album: "Jingle All the Way" by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Best Pop Vocal Album: "Rockferry" by Duffy

Best Dance Recording: "Harder Better Faster Stronger" by Daft Punk

Best Electronic/Dance Album: "Alive 2007" by Daft Punk

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: "Still Unforgettable" by Natalie Cole

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: "Gravity" by John Mayer

Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: "Sex on Fire" by the KIngs of Leon

Best Hard Rock Performance: "Wax Simulacra" by Mars Volta

Best Metal Performance: "My Apocalypse" by Metallica

Best Rock Instrumental Performance: "Peaches En Regalia" from Zappa plays Zappa featuring Steve Vai and Napoleon Murphy Brock

Best Rock Song: "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" by Bruce Springsteen

Best Rock Album: "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" by Coldplay

Best Alternative Album: "In Rainbows" by Radiohead

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: "Superwoman" by Alicia Keys

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Miss Independent" by Ne-Yo

Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: "Stay With Me (By the Sea)" by Al Green featuring John Legend

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: "You've Got the Love I Need" by Al Green featuring Anthony Hamilton

Best Urban Alternative Performance: "Be OK" by Chrisette Michele featuring will.i.am

Best R&B Song: "Miss Independent" by Ne-Yo

Best R&B Album: "Jennifer Hudson" by Jennifer Hudson

Best Contemporary R&B Album: "Growing Pains" by Mary J Blige

Best Rap Solo Performance: "A Milli" by Lil Wayne

Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "Swagga Like Us" by Jay-Z and T.I. featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne

Best Rap Song Collaboration: "American Boy" by Estelle featuring Kanye West

Best Rap Song: "Lollipop" by Lil Wayne featuring Static Major

Best Rap Album: "Tha Carter III" by Lil Wayne

Best Female Country Vocal Performance: "Last Name" by Carrie Underwood

Best Male Country Vocal Performance: "Letter to Me" by Brad Paisley

Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group: "Stay" by Sugarland

Best Country Vocal Collaboration: "Killing the Blues" by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Best Country Instrumental Performance: "Cluster Pluck" by Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Yolkaert and Steve Wariner

Best Country Song: "Stay" by Sugarland

Best Country Album: "Troubadour" by George Strait

Best Bluegrass Album: "Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947" by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder

Best New Age Album: "Peace Time" by Jack DeJohnette

Best Contemporary Jazz Album: "Randy in Brasil" by Randy Brecker

Best Jazz Vocal Album: "Loverly" by Cassandra Wilson

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo: "Be-Bop" by Terence Blanchard

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: "The New Crystal Silence" by Chick Corea and Gary Burton

Best Jazz Large Ensemble Album: "Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard" by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra

Best Latin Jazz Album: "Song for Chico" by Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Best Gospel Performance: "Get Up" by Mary Mary

Best Gospel Song: "Help Me Believe" by Kirk Franklin

Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album: "Alive and Transported" by TobyMac

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: "Thy Kingdom Come" by Cece Winans

Best Southern Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album: "Lovin' Life" by the Gaither Vocal Band

Best Traditional Gospel Album: "Down in New Orleans" by the Blind Boys of Alabama

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: "The Fight of My Life" by Kirk Frankliln

Best Latin Pop Album: "La Vida...Es Un Ratico" by Juanes

Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album: "45" by Jaguares

Best Latin Urban Album: "Los Extraterrestres" by Wisin y Ynadel

Best Tropical Latin Album: "Senor Bachata" by Jose Feliciano

Best Regional Mexican Album: "Amor, Dolar y Lagrimas: Musica Ranchera" by Mariachi los Camperos de Nati Cano

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"Canciones de Amore" by Mariachi Divas

Best Tejano Album: "Viva la Revolucion" by Ruben Ramos and the Mexican Revolution

Best Norteno Album: "Raices" by Los Tigres del Norte"

Best Banda Album: "No Es De Madera" by Joan Sebastian

Best Traditional Blues Album: "One Kind of Favor" by B.B. King

Best Contemporary Blues Album: "City that Care Forgot" by Dr. John and the Lower 911

Best Traditional Folk Album: "At 89" by Pete Seeger

Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: "Raising Sand" by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Best Native American Music Album: "Come to Me Great Mystery - Native American Healing Songs" by Various Artists

Best Hawaiian Music Album: "'Ikena" by Tia carrere and Daniel Ho

Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album: "Live at the 2008 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival" by BeauSoleil and Michael Doucet

Best Reggae Album: "Jah is Real" by Burning Spear

Best Traditional World Music Album: "Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu" by Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Best Contemporary World Music Album: "Global Drum Project" by Mickey Har, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo

Best Polka Album: "Let the Whole World Sing" by Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra

Best Musical Album for Children: "Here Come the 123s" by They Might Be Giants

Best Spoken Word Album for Children: "Yes to Running" Bill Harley Live" by Bill Harley

Best Spoken Word Album: "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore, Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood

Best Comedy Album: "It's Bad for Ya" by George Carlin

Best Musical Show Album: "In the Heights" by the original Broadway cast

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album: "Juno"

Best Score Soundtrack Album: "The Dark Knight"

Best Song written for Visual Media (movie, tv, etc.): "Down to Earth" from Wall-E by Peter Gabriel

Best Instrumental Composition: "The Adventures of Mutt" from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by John Williams

Best Instrumental Arrangement: "Define Dancing" from Wall-E by Thomas Newman

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): "Here's that Rainy Day" by Natalie Cole

Best Recording Package: "Death Magnetic" by Metallica

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: "In Rainbows" by Radiohead

Best Album Notes: "Kind of Blue: 50^th Anniversary Collector's Edition" by Miles Davis

Best Historical Album: "Art of Field Recording Volume 1: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum" by Various Artists

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: "Consolers of the Lonely" by The Raconteurs

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Rick Rubin for

"Death Magnetic" by Metallica

"Home Before Dark" by Neil Diamond

"Mercy" by Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy

"Seeing Things" by Jakob Dylan

"Weezer (Red Album)" by Weezer

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: "Electric Feel" by MGMT

Best Surround Sound Album: "Mussorgsky: Pictures of an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Prelude to Khovanshchina" by Paavo Jarvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Best Engineered Album, Classical: "Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago" by Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Alan Gilbert, Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost for

"Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique" by the Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

"Right Through the Bone - Julius Rontgen Chamber Music" by the ARC Ensemble

"Schubert: Sonata in D Maj.; Liszt: Don Juan Fantasy" by Min Kwon

"Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago" by Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Alan Gilbert, Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man, Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Classical Album: "Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"

Best Orchestral Performance: "Shstakovich: Symphony No. 4" by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Best Opera Recording: "Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"

Best Choral Performance: "Symphony of Psalms" by the Berliner Philharmoniker

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance with Orchestra: "Schoenberg/Siberlius: Violin concertos" by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance without an Orchestra: "Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky and Lutoslawski" by Gloria Cheng

Best Chamber Music Performance: "Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5" by the Pacifica Quartet

Best Small Ensemble Performance: "Spotless Rose: Hymns to the Virgin Mary" by the Phoenix Chorale

Best Classical Vocal Performance: "Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan" by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Best Classical Contemporary Composition: "Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems by Bob Dylan"

Best Classical Crossover Album: "Simple Gifts" by the Kings Singers

Best Short Form Music Video: "Pork and Beans" by Weezer

Best Long Form Music Video: "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty and the Heartbrakers

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award winners:

Gene Autry

The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Four Tops

Hank Jones

Brenda Lee

Dean Martin

Tom Paxton