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2019 GRAMMY Awards: Country Winners List

Check out the winners’ list in the country categories below. Winners will be updated as they win. 2019 Country Grammy WINNERS Highlighted in Bold  Best Country Solo Performance For new…

LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 12: A detailed view of the GRAMMY awards in the press room at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Check out the winners' list in the country categories below. Winners will be updated as they win. 2019 Country Grammy WINNERS Highlighted in Bold 

Best Country Solo Performance
For new vocal or instrumental solo country recordings.

"Wouldn't It Be Great"
Loretta Lynn

"Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"
Maren Morris

"Butterflies"
Kacey Musgraves - WINNER 

"Millionaire"
Chris Stapleton

"Parallel Line"
Keith Urban

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative country recordings.

"Shoot Me Straight"
Brothers Osborne

"Tequila"
Dan + Shay - WINNER

"When Someone Stops Loving You"
Little Big Town

"Dear Hate"
Maren Morris Featuring Vince Gill

"Meant To Be"
Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line

Best Country Song
A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

"Break Up In The End"
Jessie Jo Dillon, Chase McGill & Jon Nite, songwriters (Cole Swindell)

"Dear Hate"
Tom Douglas, David Hodges & Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris Featuring Vince Gill)

"I Lived It"
Rhett Akins, Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley & Ben Hayslip, songwriters (Blake Shelton)

"Space Cowboy" - WINNER! 
Luke Laird, Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)

"Tequila"
Nicolle Galyon, Jordan Reynolds & Dan Smyers, songwriters (Dan + Shay)

"The Someone Stops Loving You"
Hillary Lindsey, Chase McGill & Lori McKenna, songwriters (Little Big Town)

Best Country Album
For albums containing at least 51% playing time of new country recordings.

Unapologetically
Kelsea Ballerini

Port St. John
Brothers Osborne

Girl Going Nowhere
Ashley McBryde

Golden Hour - WINNER!
Kacey Musgraves

From a Room: Volume 2
Chris Stapleton

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.