If you check the list of Grammy nominees, it’s pretty lengthy and a bit overwhelming. (“Best Album Notes” is a category?) Here’s a much shorter list of nominated recordings available for checkout at the Madison Library, in no particular order:

  • My Name Is Buddy, Ry Cooder (Best Contemporary Folk/Americana album)
  • River: The Joni Letters, Herbie Hancock (Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Jazz Album, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for Both Sides Now) NOTE: this CD is on order.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Jim Dale, narrator (Best Spoken Word Album for Children)
  • The One and Only Shrek, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci (Best Spoken Word Album for Children)
  • Magic, Bruce Springsteen (Best Rock Album, and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song, both for Radio Nowhere)
  • Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Kraus (Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On))
  • West, Lucinda Williams (Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song, both for Come On)

And, here are the spoken word nominees available for download (free!) from NH Downloadable Audio Books:

  • The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
  • Giving: How Each of us Can Change the World, Bill Clinton
  • Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Alan Alda

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Grammy Award nominees @ your library