Shore Fire Clients Earn 9 Grammys

NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Shore Fire clients last night earned nine GRAMMY Awards, five of them in a diverse set of Best Album categories, and a clutch of our clients were seen onstage during the televised Awards ceremony. Zac Brown Band was named Best New Artist and, with Leon Russell, delivered a smoking rendition of America the Beautiful, Russell's Dixie's Lullaby and their own No 1 platinum single Chicken Fried. Maxwell won two awards - his first GRAMMYs - including Best R&B Album and tore down the house with his song Pretty Wings and a spirited duet with Roberta Flack on Where is the Love. Loudon Wainwright III took home his first GRAMMY Award. Smokey Robinson sang, as did Butch Walker, who was invited by Taylor Swift to play on the arrangement of her song "You Belong With" made famous by his viral video cover.

Shore Fire GRAMMY winners:

Best New Artist:
Zac Brown Band

Best Americana Album:
Levon Helm - 'Electric Dirt' (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records)

Best Pop Instrumental Album:
Booker T. Jones - Potato Hole (Anti)

Best R&B Album:
Maxwell - 'BLACKsummers'Night' (Columbia)

Best Tejano Album:
Los Texmaniacs - 'Borders Y Bailes' (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

Best Traditional Folk Album:
Loudon Wainwright III - 'High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project' (2nd Story Sound Records)

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance:
Bruce Springsteen "Working On A Dream" - from 'Working On A Dream' (Columbia)

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance:
Maxwell "Pretty Wings" - from 'BLACKsummers'Night' (Columbia)

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s):
Claus Ogerman, arranger (Diana Krall) "Quiet Nights" - from 'Quiet Nights' (Verve)