Beyoncés ‘Cowboy Carter’ wins Grammy for Best Landalbum

Beyoncé went into Grammys on Sunday with 11 nominations, more than any other artist, most prominent in this year’s album for “Cowboy Carter” – her fifth shot at the night’s most sought after award, after four eye -catching career losses and an embarrassingly bad history for black women on Grammys.

But down the ballot paper there were five chances for her to make a splash in the land. “Cowboy Carter” received nods for the best country album – along with LPS by Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Lainy Wilson and Post Malone – as well as Country -solo performance (“16 wagons”), rural/group performance (“II most sought after, “With Miley Cyrus), Country Song (” Texas Hold them “) and Americana Performance (” Ya Ya “).

Beyoncé won Grammy for Best Country Album and became the first black artist to achieve Bragden. “I think ‘genre’ is sometimes a password to keep us in our place as artists,” she said in her acceptance speech, “and I just want to encourage people to do what they are passionate about.”

At the Premier Ceremony, in front of the main show, Beyoncé won for best Landduo/Group Performance, but lost in the Best Country Song category to Musgraves “The Architect.” She lost in Best Country Solo Performance to Stapleton (“It Takes a Woman”) and in the best Americana performance to Sierra Ferrell (“American Dreaming”).

The two wins represent a retort of kinds of the Nashville company, which has largely ignored Beyoncé’s relocation into the Clubby world of the country, a story that has built for almost a decade.

Her song “Daddy Lessons” from her album in 2016 “Lemonade” had twangy guitars and a vocals there pulled comparisons with Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood. The track was sent to Grammys for a nomination of the country but was Rejected by the committee that oversees these prices. (Most of these selections have since been removed.) The year, Beyoncé also performed the song with the chickens, formerly called Dixie Chicks, at the Country Music Association Awards. The hard answer to that was apparently what put Beyoncé on a course to deep deeper into country music on its own terms.

When I announced “Cowboy Carter” last year was Beyoncé wrote on social media: “It was born of an experience that I had many years ago when I didn’t feel welcome … and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But because of this experience, I made a deeper dive in the history of the country music and studied our rich musical archive. “She added,” The criticism I was facing when I first entered this genre forced me to drive past the limitations that were set on me. “

Land radio stations gave minimal attention to the songs on “Cowboy Carter” and Beyoncé received no nominations at last year’s CMAs.

There is a long story with Grammy voters drawn from the full music industry using their ballots to send messages to Nashville. In 2007, the chickens won all three top awards – including this year’s album, to “take the long way” – after the group was blacklisted from the country’s radio stations over his criticism of President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.