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Best Bluegrass Album

2000 • 42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1998 and Aug 30, 1999

2000 Winner is Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder with "Ancient Tones"

Ancient Tones

Ricky Skaggs

Nominees 2000

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Billy Strings Highway Prayers All Nominees
2025 Billy Strings Live Vol. 1 All Nominees
2024 Molly Tuttle, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway City Of Gold All Nominees
2023 Molly Tuttle, Golden Highway Crooked Tree All Nominees
2022 Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart All Nominees
2021 Billy Strings Home All Nominees
2020 Michael Cleveland Tall Fiddler All Nominees
2019 The Travelin' McCourys The Travelin' McCourys All Nominees
2018 The Infamous Stringdusters Laws Of Gravity All Nominees
2018 Rhonda Vincent, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage All The Rage - In Concert Volume One [Live] All Nominees
2017 O'Connor Band With Mark O'Connor, Mark O'Connor Coming Home All Nominees
2016 SteelDrivers The Muscle Shoals Recordings All Nominees
2015 The Earls Of Leicester The Earls Of Leicester All Nominees
2014 Del McCoury, Del McCoury Band The Streets Of Baltimore All Nominees
2013 The Steep Canyon Rangers, Mike Guggino, Charles Humphrey, Woody Platt, Nicky Sanders, Graham Sharp Nobody Knows You All Nominees
2012 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Alison Krauss Paper Airplane All Nominees
2011 Patty Loveless Mountain Soul II All Nominees
2010 Steve Martin The Crow: New Songs For The Five-String Banjo All Nominees
2009 Ricky Skaggs Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947 All Nominees
2008 Jim Lauderdale The Bluegrass Diaries All Nominees
2007 Ricky Skaggs, Ricky Skaggs And Kentucky Thunder Instrumentals All Nominees
2006 Del McCoury, Del McCoury Band The Company We Keep All Nominees
2005 Ricky Skaggs Brand New Strings All Nominees
2004 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Alison Krauss Live All Nominees
2003 Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley, Clinch Mountain Boys Lost In The Lonesome Pines All Nominees
2002 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Alison Krauss New Favorite All Nominees
2001 Dolly Parton The Grass Is Blue All Nominees
2000 Ricky Skaggs Ancient Tones All Nominees
1999 Ricky Skaggs Bluegrass Rules! All Nominees
1998 Alison Krauss & Union Station, Alison Krauss So Long So Wrong All Nominees
1997 (Various Artists) True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe All Nominees
1996 Nashville Bluegrass Band Unleashed All Nominees
1995 (Various Artists) The Great Dobro Sessions All Nominees
1994 Nashville Bluegrass Band Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go All Nominees
1993 Alison Krauss Every Time You Say Goodbye All Nominees
1992 Carl Jackson, John Starling Spring Training All Nominees
1991 Alison Krauss I've Got That Old Feeling All Nominees
1990 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Bruce Hornsby The Valley Road All Nominees
1989 Bill Monroe Southern Flavor All Nominees

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