RIAA's "Grammy Award Winners for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album"

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Awarded since 1986 to contemporary folk (hard to describe this as there’s no general consensus but I’d say acoustically based singer-songwriter music written in the modern era with a spare arrangement. If someone else can come up with a better definition, I’ll adjust this..) or Americana (roots-based music usually with a country flavor. Country here means as practiced by Hank Senior rather than say, Rascal Flatts) album recognized by Recording Industry Association of America voters.

  1. 1986
    A Tribute to Steve Goodman
    by Various Artists

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  2. 1987
    Unfinished Business
    by Steve Goodman

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  3. 1988
    Tracy Chapman
    by Tracy Chapman

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  4. 1989
    Indigo Girls
    by Indigo Girls

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  5. 1990
    Steady On
    by Shawn Colvin

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  6. 1991
    The Missing Years
    by John Prine

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  7. 1992
    Another Country
    by The Chieftains

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  8. 1993
    Other Voices, Other Rooms
    by Nanci Griffith

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  9. 1994
    American Recordings
    by Johnny Cash

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  10. 1995
    Wrecking Ball
    by Emmylou Harris

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  11. 1996
    The Ghost of Tom Joad
    by Bruce Springsteen

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  12. 1997
    Time Out of Mind
    by Bob Dylan

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  13. 1998
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
    by Lucinda Williams

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  14. 1999
    Mule Variations
    by Tom Waits

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  15. 2000
    Red Dirt Girl

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  16. 2001
    "Love and Theft"

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  17. 2002
    This Side
    by Nickel Creek

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  18. 2003
    The Wind
    by Warren Zevon

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  19. 2004
    The Revolution Starts...Now
    by Steve Earle

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  20. 2005
    Fair & Square
    by John Prine

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  21. 2006
    Modern Times
    by Bob Dylan

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Created by Greg on Feb 12, 2007.
 

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