Best American Roots Song To Be Recognised
The Recording Academy has approved several changes to the Awards process, including: expanding the American Roots Music Field by establishing a new category for Best American Roots Song; renaming the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category to Best Metal Performance; and, renaming and revising the Music Video Field to Music Video/Film Field.
This brings the total number of GRAMMY categories that will be recognized at the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards® on January 26, 2014, to 82.
The Best American Roots Song category is a songwriter’s award that will encompass all of the subgenres of the Field (Americana, bluegrass, blues, folk, regional roots music), and puts the Field in line with the Rock, Rap, R&B, Country, and Gospel/CCM Fields, all of which have songwriters’ awards.
