Music News: 2007 Grammy Awards Winners
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Australia's own rock and roll royalty, Wolfmother, have picked up a prestigious Grammy award for their song, Woman, at the 2007 Grammy Awards held in the US.
Fast becoming the "Next Big Aussie Thing", Wolfmother have quickly replaced Jet
as the go-to rock group from down under. The rock trio beat three
giants of rock - System Of A Down, Tool and Nine Inch Nails - for the
best hard rock performance Grammy.
Other big winners on the
night included the Red Hot Chili Peppers who took home three Grammys in
the early stages of the night, while Crazy
singer Gnarls Barkley grabbed two including one for Best
Alternative Music Album, while leading nominee Mary J Blige took home
one.
Blige, who had eight nominations in all, won best R&B song for Be Without You, which was also nominated for record and song of the year. The Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Justin Timberlake (with rapper T.I. for the song My Love) also won one each.
The
Dixie Chicks were the surprise comeback darlings of the year, nominated
for a total of five awards for their album, "Taking the Long Way",
their first disc since the country backlash over lead singer Natalie
Maines' criticism of President George W Bush in 2003.
Other
winners included American Idol Carrie Underwood won Best Female Country
Vocal Performance, rock pioneer Ike Turner for Best Traditional Blues
album (which his son produced) while Bob Dylan took home the award for
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana album.
And while Wolfmother
waved the flag proudly, it wasn't to be for our other Aussie contenders
Keith Urban (who missed out on the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal
Performance....and sobriety) and serial Hey Hey It's Saturday guest Tommy Emmanuel who narrowly missed grabbing the Best Country Instrumental Performance award.
Another year, another hyped up Aussie band. Let's hope their follow up album doesn't go the way of "Shine On" - which went down quicker than Paris Hilton at a Hollywood function.
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