4 women who should have won a grammy

[Mr. Kaplansky]

In my opinion these 4 women should have won a grammy:

Laura Nyro
Melanie
Maria Muldaur
Wendy Waldman

They all have some good songs.

[Mr. Kaplansky]

Actually only 1 of them has been nominated a few times: Maria Muldaur

[erik]

Another gal who should have at least been nominated for something:

MARIA MCKEE (she of Lone Justice fame, and a huge LR fan):

[jhar26]

Grammys should be won by the likes of Bjork, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, etc. Like it or not, they are the female artists that history will record as the important ones of the last thirty years or so. On the other hand - who cares? I doubt that anyone still takes the grammys seriously. In fact, I'm surprised that anyone ever did to begin with when you go over the list of past winners and who won what and when. They have always been completely clueless and decades behind the times. That's why they now give grammys to older artists to make up for the fact that they didn't give them any for their best work thirty or forty years ago.

[erik]

Quote by jhar26:

Grammys should be won by the likes of Bjork, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, etc. Like it or not, they are the female artists that history will record as the important ones of the last thirty years or so. On the other hand - who cares? I doubt that anyone still takes the grammys seriously. In fact, I'm surprised that anyone ever did to begin with when you go over the list of past winners and who won what and when. They have always been completely clueless and decades behind the times. That's why they now give grammys to older artists to make up for the fact that they didn't give them any for their best work thirty or forty years ago.

I think it is always a subject of contradictions. We may like to think in the privacy of our own thoughts that the Grammys don't mean what they once did, and yet at the same time, on that one night a year they are televised, we watch, the way a lot of people watch the aftermath of a train, plane, or auto crash. I would say, however, that the elimination of a lot of categories, simply for the sake of making the show run faster (it hasn't worked, in my opinion), has left a lot of artists out in the cold when it comes to recognition, turning the whole thing into what George C. Scott once called the Oscars, a literal meat market.

And while we're at it, when it comes to the Americana/Roots category, I hope next January I see Lindi Ortega's name there, for her album Liberty. To me, alongside Tift Merritt, Caitlin Rose, and Margo Price, Lindi is one of those artists who shall be remembered in 20-30 years as well.