44 Texas born-or-based acts receive a total of 55 GRAMMY nominations

For a list of all nominees, please visit: http://www.grammy.com/nominees


The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences 
53rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards
Watch ON CBS 8PM ET/PT, FEBRUARY 13

For recordings released during the Eligibility Year September 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010.

Compiled by Casey Monahan, Stephen Ray, Amber LaFrance, Katelyn Orr, and Ambika Singh

Arcade Fire (The Woodlands)

-Album of the Year for The Suburbs (Merge)

-Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Ready to Start (Merge)

-Best Alternative Music Album for The Suburbs (Merge)

ARS Lyrica Houston (Houston)

-Best Opera Recording for Hasse: Marc' Antonio E Cleopatra (Dorian Sono Luminus)

Devendra Banhart (Houston)

-Best Recording Package for What Will We Be (with Jon Beasley) (Warner Bros.)

Joseph Banowetz (Denton)
-Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) for Kletzki: Piano Concerto In D Minor, Op. 22 (Naxos)

John Beasley (Denton)

-Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual of Group for Positootly! (Resonance)

Beyoncé  (Houston)

-Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Halo(Live) (Columbia/Music World Music)

-Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for Telephone (with Lady GaGa) (Streamline/KonLive/Cherrytree/Interscope)

Ryan Bingham (Austin)

-Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for The Weary Kind with T Bone Burnett (New West)

Carol Burnett (San Antonio)
-Best Spoken Word Album for This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (Random House Audio)

T Bone Burnett (Fort Worth)
-Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for Crazy Heart (New West)
-Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for The Weary Kind with Ryan Bingham (New West)

Guy Clark (Monahans)
-Best Contemporary Folk Album for Somedays the Song Writes You (Dualtone)

James Cotton (Austin)
-Best Traditional Blues Album for Giant (Alligator)

David Crowder Band (Waco)
-Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album for Church Music (Sparrow/Sixsteprecords)

Steve Earle (San Antonio)
-Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for This City (Geffen)

Roky Erickson with Okkervil River (Austin)

-Best Album Notes for True Love Cast Out All Evil (ANTI-)

Patty Griffin (Austin)

-Best Traditional Gospel Album for Downtown Church (Credential Recordings)

El Güero Y Su Banda Centenario (San Antonio)

-Best Banda Album for Enamórate De Mí (A.R.C. Discos)

Grupo Fantasma (Austin)
-Best Latin Rock, Alternative or Urban Album for El Existential (Nat Geo Music)

Ty Herndon  (Dallas)

-Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album for Journey On (FUNL Music)

Sara Hickman (Austin)

- Best Spoken Word Album for Children Healthy Food For Thought: Good Enough To Eat

     (Hickman contributed two selections) (East Coast Recording Company)

Buddy Holly (Lubbock)

-Best Historical Album for Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings and More (Ume/Hip-O Select/Geffen)

Intocable (Zapata)

-Best Norteño Album for Classic (Sony Music Latin)

Israel Houghton (Houston)

-Best Gospel Performance for You Hold My World (Integrity Music)

-Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album for Love God, Love People (Integrity Music)

Jewel (Stephenville)

-Best Female Country Vocal Performance for Satisfied (The Valory Music Company)

Norah Jones (Dallas)

-Best Female Vocal Pop Performance for Chasing Pirates (Blue Note)

Miranda Lambert (Lindale)

-Song of the Year for The House That Built Me (Columbia)

-Best Female Country Vocal Performance for The House That Built Me (Columbia)

-Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for Bad Angel (with Dierks Bentley and Jamey Johnson) (Capitol Records Nashville)

-Best Country Song for The House That Built Me (Columbia)

-Best Country Album for Revolution (Columbia)

Lecrae (Dallas)

-Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album for Rehab (Reach)

Little Joe Y La Familia (Temple)

-Best Tejano Album for Recuerdos (TDI)

Alan Lomax (Austin)

-Best Album Notes for Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936-1937 (Harte Recordings)
-Best Historical Album for Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936-1937 (Harte Recordings)

Johnny Mathis (Gilmer)

-Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Let It Be Me: Mathis in Nashville (Columbia)

Juan P. Moreno (Houston)

-Best Tejano Album for Sabes Bien (Q-Vo)

Willie Nelson (Austin)

-Best Americana Album for Country Music (Rounder)

Pinetop Perkins (Austin)

-Best Traditional Blues Album for Joined at the Hip (with Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith) (Telarc)

Joe Posada (San Antonio)

-Best Tejano Album for In The Pocket (Baby Dude)

LeAnn Rimes (Dallas)

-Best Female Country Vocal Performance for Swingin (Curb)

Poncho Sanchez (Laredo)

-Best Latin Jazz Album for Psychedelic Blues (Concord Picante)

Sunny Sauceda Y Todo Eso (San Antonio)

-Best Tejano Album for Homenaje A Mi Padre (Solstice)

Allen Shamblin (Austin)

-Song of the Year for The House That Built Me with Tom Douglas (Columbia)

-Best Country Song for The House That Built Me with Tom Douglas (Columbia)

Esperanza Spalding (Austin)

-Best New Artist

George Strait (San Antonio)

-Best Country Song for The Breath You Take (MCA Nashville)

Chris Tomlin (Austin)

-Best Gospel Song for Our God (Sparrow)

Tortilla Factory (Austin)

-Best Tejano Album for Cookin (Tortilla)

Jimmie Vaughan (Austin)

-Best Traditional Blues Album for Plays Blues Ballads and Favorites (Shout! Factory)

Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole (San Felipe)

-Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album for Creole Moon: Live At The Blue Moon Saloon (Valcour)

Kirk Whalum (Houston)

-Best Pop Instrumental Album for Everything is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway (Rendezvous Music/Mack Avenue)

-Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for We’re Still Friends (with Musiq Soulchild) (Rendezvous Music/Mack Avenue)

-Best Gospel Performance for He’s Just Been That Good (with Lalah Hathaway) (Rendezvous Music/Mack Avenue)

-Best Gospel Song for It’s What I Do (with Lalah Hathaway) (Rendezvous Music/Mack Avenue)