Sierra Ferrell wins big at 2025 Grammy Awards

From a homeless and train -jumping bushes to one of Fastest rising stars In Independent Roots Music, until now a four-time Grammy-winning artist, the hopeful and inspiring story of singer and songwriter Sierra Ferrell continues only to become sweeter.

On Sunday (2-2) under Grammy’s “Premier Ceremony”, which precedes Big Telecast at CBS, Sierra Ferrell almost swept the American root categories where she was nominated four times. Ferrell won all four categories and went away with trophies to best americana album (Trail of Flowers), Best American Roots Song (“American Dreaming” with co-author Melody Walker), Best Americana Performance (“American Dreaming”) and Best American Roots Performance for “Lighthouse.”

These wins will not just make Sierra Ferrell one of the biggest winners in Country and Roots Music. It will make her one of the biggest Grammy Getters in 2025, if not the biggest one before the night is over.

Sierra appeared in a white dress with a septer where she got her speech Stash for her first win.

“Wow, wow, many thanks,” Sierra said and accepted the first award, Best Americana Performance. “I want to say thank you to my mother for one. I love my mom. And to my little dog Baker and to my production crew Eddie Spear and Gary Paczosa and to my gals out on the road with me that keeps the wheels rolling. I obviously did not expect this and I would like to thank everyone in the category because everyone is so beautiful in their own way and they have their own essence. ”

Melody Walker also accepted the award for American root songs with Sierra.

See the full list of winners of land and roots from the 2024 Grammy Awards below.

Best American Roots Performance was awarded later in the presentation with the Land Awards. When Ferrell returned to the scene for his fourth acceptance speech, Ferrell said, “I was so caught earlier by the anxiety of winning something that I forgot to thank the most important thing that is God … The power of prayer is so powerful, so don’t forget to say your prayers.“

Writing was on the wall that Sierra Ferrell could have a big Grammy week at the end of 2024 when her latest album Trail of Flowers Ended at the top of many 2024 year lists, including becoming Saving Country Music’s 2024 Album of the Year.

Ferrell was also chosen to perform on Musicare’s Person of the Year Gala the night before Grammy’s honor de grateful dead. Sierra dressed up as The Dead’s “Skull and Roses” character with a crown of roses in her hair and performed appropriately the “it must have been the roses” with Lukas Nelson.

For some music artists, a Grammy price is the icing on the cake. For an artist like Sierra Ferrell, it’s not just validation, it can be a career -changing. Already sold out theaters all over the United States and sets to open stadium shows for Post Malone in 2025, the victories could significantly strengthen Sierra even more, finally put a woman on par with other top -independent artists such as Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson and Billy String.

Although all music prices for some are silly. For others, they especially seem sweet from the hard work and stamina that led up to them. It certainly feels as the case for Sierra Ferrell.

Also won in US root categories was Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, who took the trophy to best popular albums to Forestand Billy Strings that won the best bluegrass -album to Live vol. 1. Winners of the early land country include Chris Stapleton for Best Country Solo Performance (“It Takes a Woman”), Kacey Musgraves (Architect “) and Beyoncé for Best Rural/Group Performance With Miley Cyrus for” II Most Wanted. ”

Beyoncé was nominated in all four country categories, but has only gone away with one so far. She was also nominated for Americana Performance, but lost to Sierra Ferrell. Best country albums are awarded under Sunday Everings The Primetime Telecast.

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American roots winners:

Americana album:
The other side – T Bone Burnett
$ 10 cowboy – Charley Crockett
Trail of Flowers – Sierra Ferrell – Winner
Polaroid lovers – Sarah Jarosz
No one comes out alive – Maggie Rose
Tiger’s blood – Waxahatchee

American Roots Performance:
“Guilt it on eve” – Shemekia Copeland
“Nothing in Wandering” – The Fabulous Thunderbirds with Bonnie Raitt, Keb ‘Mo’, Taj Mahal & Mick Fleetwood
“Lighthouse” – Sierra Ferrell – Winner
“The Ballad of Sally Anne” – Rhiannon Giddens

Americana Performance:
“YA YA” – Beyoncé
“Subtitles” – Madison Cunningham
“Don’t Make Me Good” – Madi Diaz with Kacey Musgraves
“American Dreaming” – Sierra Ferrell – Winner
“Runaway Train” – Sarah Jarosz
“Tom Train Load of Heaven” – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

American Roots Song:
“In front of the game” – Mark Knopfler, Songwriter (Mark Knopfler)
“All in Good Time” – Sam Beam, Songwriter (Iron & Wine with Fiona Apple)
“All my friends” – Aoife O’Donovan, Songwriter (Aoife O’Donovan)
“American Dreaming” – Sierra Ferrell & Melody Walker, Songwriters (Sierra Ferrell) – Winner
“Blame It On Eve” – ​​John Hahn & Will Kimbrough, Songwriters (Shemekia Copeland)

Best Bluegrass Album:
I built a worldBronwyn Keith-Hynes
Songs of Love and LifeShare McCoury Band
No fearSister Sadie
Live vol. 1Billy Strings – Winner
Earl JamTony Trischka
Dan Tyminski: Live from RymanDan Tyminski

Best people’s albums:
American Patchwork QuartetAmerican Patchwork Quartet
Strange faithMadi Diaz
Light futureAdrianne Lenker
All my friendsAoife O’Donovan
ForestGillian Welch & David Rawlings – Winner

Land Winders:

Country Solo Performance:
“16 wagons” – Beyoncé
“I’m not okay” – scroll
The “Architect” – Kacey Musgraves
“A BAR SONG (TIPSY)” – Shaboozey
“It takes a woman” – Chris Stapleton – Winner

Country Song:
“The Architect” – Shane Mcanally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne, Songwriters (Kacey Musgraves) – Winner
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Sean Cook, Jerrel Jones, Joe Kent, Chibueze Collins Obinna, Nevin Sastry & Mark Williams, Songwriters (Shaboozey)
“I’m not okay” – Casey Brown, Jason DeFord, Ashley Gorley & Taylor Phillips, SongWriters (Jelly Roll)
“I had some help” – Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Hoskins, Austin Post, Ernest Smith, Ryan VojtaSak, Morgan Wallen & Chandler Paul Walters, Songwriters (Post Malone with Morgan Wallen)
“Texas Hold them” – Brian Bates, Beyoncé, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Megan Bülow, Nate Ferraro & Raphael Saadiq, Songwriters (Beyoncé)

Landduo/Group Performance:
“Cowboys also cry” – Kelsea Ballerini with Noah Kahan
“II Most Wanted” – Beyoncé with Miley Cyrus – Winner
“Break Mine” – brothers osborne
“Larger Houses” – Dan + Shay
“I had some help” – Post Malone with Morgan Wallen

Not yet handed out:

Landsalbum:
Cowboy Carter – Beyoncé
F-1 trillion – Post Malone
Deeper good – Kacey Musgraves
Taller – Chris Stapleton
Whirlwind – Lainy Wilson

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