John Prine Wins 2nd Grammy Award

Nashville, Tenn. (John Prine Official Website) - John Prine's latest release, Fair & Square, won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, which took place in Los Angeles on Feb. 8. Fair & Square is his first studio recording in nine years and was released on his very own Oh Boy record label.

The Grammy win caps a remarkable year for Prine-one in which he won Artist of the Year honors at the 4th Annual Americana Music Honors and Awards, which took place in Nashville in September. Prior to that he received an invitation to read and perform at the Library of Congress from Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.

Prine also saw Fair & Square, which features guest vocals from fellow Grammy winner and bluegrass star Alison Krauss and Americana singer Mindy Smith, ring up the best first week sales of his career. It landed at No. 2 on Billboard's Indie chart and No. 55 on the all genre Top 200 chart.

This is Prine's second Grammy-he took home a previous Best Contemporary Folk Album Grammy back in 1991 for his album The Missing Years.