Had Jimmy Carter won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album, I would have made this my last Grammy recap ever. Fortunately, Michael J. Fox won the Grammy in this category, bucking the trend of awarding Grammys in this category to heroes of the Left.
While Beyonce appeared to be the big winner last night, I would argue that the big winner was the San Francisco Symphony recording of “Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10,” which won three Grammys – Best Engineered Album (Classical), Best Classical Album, and Best Choral Performance.
Stephen Colbert won a Best Comedy Album Grammy for “A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!” Steve Martin, who owns two Best Comedy Album Grammys of his own, won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for “The Crow/New Songs For The Five-String Banjo.”
There were a few disappointments. The Best Rap/Sung Collaboration did not go to the comical “I’m on a Boat” by The Lonely Island and T-Pain. I also hoped that “Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography 1890-1950” would win the Grammy for Best Historical Album but it lost to some album about chess. Finally, I truly believed that the Grammy for Best Short Form Video should have been awarded to Oren Lavie for “Her Morning Elegance.” I have posted the video below, because it is pretty clever, unlike “Boom Boom Pow” by The Black Eyed Peas, which won the Grammy for no apparent reason.
