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Updated for 2009

While the Grammys accept honored country music from the very kickoff ceremony in 1959, they did not begin honoring past gender until 1965, when the country categories were expanded forth with the other genre categories. This year, the 45th trophy for Best Male person Land Vocal Performance will exist awarded.

In a continuation of our Grammy Flashback series, here is a rundown of the All-time Land Vocal Performance, Male person category. It was beginning awarded in 1965, and included singles competing with albums until the Best Country Album category was added in 1995. When an anthology is nominated, information technology is in italics, and a single track is in quotation marks.

As usual, we get-go with a look at this year's nominees and work our way dorsum. Be certain to vote in My Kind of Country's Best Male State Song Performance poll and let your preference for this year'southward race be known!

2009

• Trace Adkins, "Yous're Gonna Miss This"
• Jamey Johnson, "In Color"
• James Otto, "Only Got Started Lovin' Yous"
• Brad Paisley, "Letter to Me"
• George Strait, "Troubadour"

Every bit with the album race, this yr'south contenders for Best Male Land Vocal Performance are a combination of unrecognized veterans and promising newcomers. In fact, none of this yr'southward nominees take won in this category, and but 1 of them – Brad Paisley – has a Grammy at all.

First, the veterans. Paisley has numerous ACM and CMA victories to his credit, including two each for Male Vocaliser.  Although he's been nominated for this honor twice before, this is the outset fourth dimension he's contended with a cut that can't be dismissed as a novelty number. The touching self-penned "Letter to Me" is his best shot yet at taking this home.

Trace Adkins has been at this a fleck longer than Paisley, but this is his commencement Grammy nomination. His crossover exposure from Glory Apprentice might aid him out here, along with the fact that the song was considered strong enough by voters to earn a nomination of its own.

Simply the real veteran to picket out for is George Strait. Later on being nominated only twice for this category in the first 25 years of his career, voters have at present given him three consecutive nominations. This is i of four nods he'southward earned for the 2009 ceremony, and "Troubadour" is substantially the story of his epic career distilled into a radio-length song. It would be the perfect way to award the man and his music in one roughshod swoop.

However, at that place's a newcomer that might be a Grammy favorite already.  We just haven't found out yet. Not James Otto, of course, who is nominated for his charming romantic romp "Just Got Started Lovin' You", merely rather, Jamey Johnson. The recent Nashville Scene critics' poll further confirmed the depth of his support amid tastemakers, and his nominations for Best Country Song and All-time Country Album indicate that he'due south very much on the academy's radar. It helps that he has the most substantial track of the v, and information technology's the obvious choice for traditionalists, who accept lilliputian reason to split up their votes in this category. If voters aren't considering legacy when making their selections, he has a great shot at this.

2008

• Dierks Bentley, "Long Trip Alone"
• Alan Jackson, "A Woman's Love"
• Tim McGraw, "If You lot're Reading This"
• George Strait, "Give it Away"
• Keith Urban, "Stupid Boy"

The often offbeat Grammy voters accept been surprisingly mainstream in this category for the past three years, a trend best exemplified by this lineup, which was the first in more than a decade to feature only elevation 10 radio hits. Tim McGraw and Keith Urban were the only 2 who had won this before, and it was Urban who emerged victorious. "Stupid Male child" was a highlight of his quaternary studio album, and this was the only major award that the impressive collection would win.

2007

• Dierks Bentley, "Every Mile a Memory"
• Vince Gill, "The Reason Why"
• George Strait, "The Seashores of Former Mexico"
• Josh Turner, "Would You lot Get With Me"
• Keith Urban, "Once in a Lifetime"

Vince Gill returned to win in this category for a ninth time with "The Reason Why." Not simply is he, past far, the well-nigh honored artist in this category, his wins here account for nine of the nineteen Grammys currently on his mantle.

2006

• George Jones, "Funny How Time Slips Away"
• Toby Keith, "As Good As I Once Was"
• Delbert McClinton, "Midnight Communion"
• Willie Nelson, "Good Ol' Boys"
• Brad Paisley, "Alcohol"
• Keith Urban, "Y'all'll Think of Me"

Urban'due south biggest and probably best hit launched his 2nd anthology to triple platinum and established him as a crossover artist. He gave a killer performance of the song on the show. Toby Keith was a showtime-time nominee here, and while he publicly groused that the Grammys put too little accent on commercial success in picking their nominations, he lost to the but runway that was a bigger hit than his own.

2005

• Johnny Cash, "Engine I-Forty-3"
• Lyle Lovett, "In My Ain Mind"
• Tim McGraw, "Alive Like You Were Dying"
• Willie Nelson, "Y'all Are My Flower"
• Keith Urban, "You'll Think of Me"

McGraw'southward biggest hit won him his first Grammy in this category. His other wins have been for his collaborations with wife Faith Hill. To the Grammy voters' credit, they have been reluctant to shower Johnny Cash with posthumous Grammys, so his predicted win here for a mundane try didn't come to pass.

2004

• Ray Benson, "Annabelle"
• Vince Gill, "Next Big Thing"
• Lyle Lovett, "My Baby Don't Tolerate"
• Tim McGraw, "She's My Kind of Pelting"
• Joe Nichols, "Brokenheartsville"
• Randy Travis, "Three Wooden Crosses"

My vote would've gone to Randy Travis, who was nominated with his finest single in years, simply Gill remained the voter's favorite. Travis did; still, win two Grammys in the gospel categories, this and the previous yr.

2003

• Johnny Cash, "Give My Love to Rose"
• Pat Dark-green, "3 Days"
• Alan Jackson, "Where Were Yous (When the World Stopped Turning)"
• Joe Nichols, "The Impossible"
• Brad Paisley, "I'one thousand Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Vocal)"

I fully expected Jackson to win hither, but his understated performance lost out to ane of the only gems on Cash'due south fourth American project. Voters wisely acknowledged Jackson in the Best State Song category, making him one of the few artist-songwriters to sweep the industry songwriting awards with i composition.

2002

• Ryan Adams, "Lovesick Blues"
• Johnny Cash, "I Dreamed Nearly Mama Last Night"
• Lyle Lovett, "San Antonio Girl"
• Tim McGraw, "Grown Men Don't Cry"
• Willie Nelson, "Maria (Close Up and Kiss Me)"
• Ralph Stanley, "O Death"

This was i of those times where you are just thankful the Grammys be. Stanley's "O Death" was the nearly powerful track on the storied O Blood brother soundtrack, simply without a video, it was but known to those people who listened to the anthology all the way through. That NARAS had the good taste to both nominate it and vote it the winner, which was a welcome surprise.

2001

• Johnny Cash, "Lone Human being"
• Vince Gill, "Feels Like Love"
• Billy Gilman, "One Voice"
• Tim McGraw, "My Best Friend"
• Dwight Yoakam, "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" (Audio-visual)

Grammy voters listening to this category couldn't get a more drastic difference in male voices than the withered-with-age Cash and the prepubescent Gilman. "Lone Man" was one of the virtually inspired covers Cash e'er did with Rick Rubin, and it deserved the gilt.

2000

• Vince Gill, "Don't Come Cryin' to Me"
• George Jones, "Choices"
• Lyle Lovett, "That'due south Right (You're Not From Texas)"
• Tim McGraw, "Please Think Me"
• Dwight Yoakam, "Crazy Little Matter Called Beloved"

Jones won his beginning Grammy in twenty years for his harrowing "Choices," which became oddly prescient as it was released in the aftermath of his virtually-death experience in an alcohol-related car crash.

1999

• Clint Black, "Nothin' But the Taillights"
• Garth Brooks, "To Make You Experience My Love"
• Vince Gill, "If You Always Have Forever in Mind"
• Steve Wariner, "Holes in the Floor of Heaven"

Gill won a record-setting fifth year in a row, a domination that no country category has seen before or since. After being nominated for 3 years in a row, Black hasn't been cited since.

1998

• Clint Blackness, "Something That Nosotros Exercise"
• Johnny Cash, "Rusty Muzzle"
• Vince Gill, "Pretty Trivial Adriana"
• Willie Nelson, "Peach Pickin' Time Downward in Georgia"
• George Strait, "Carrying Your Love With Me"
  

NARAS was and so certain that Strait would get his showtime Grammy that they invited him to perform on the show, and he agreed. Unfortunately, sickness required Vince Gill to fill in for him, and Gill won the award, allowing him to acknowledge the memory of the young girl who inspired the vocal.

1997

• Clint Black, "Like the Rain"
• Junior Chocolate-brown, "My Married woman Thinks You lot're Dead"
• Vince Gill, "Worlds Apart"
• Lyle Lovett, "Private Conversation"
• Dwight Yoakam, "Null"

Amid a strong lineup, the Grammy again went to Vince Gill.   This fourth dimension around, he won for a tender plea for harmony within families and among all races and creeds.   A very inspiring vocal that was written while eating grilled cheeseburgers with Bob DiPiero at Rotier'southward in Nashville.

1996

• John Berry, "Standing on the Edge of Farewell"
• Vince Gill, "Go Rest High on That Mountain"
• Alan Jackson, "Gone Country"
• John Michael Montgomery, "I Tin Beloved You lot Like That"
• Dwight Yoakam, "A Yard Miles From Nowhere (Live)"

Potent entries from Jackson and Berry, plus a well-known song that was a hit for All 4 I afterward topping the charts for Montgomery, couldn't stop Grammy powerhourse Gill from winning again. Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs provided the soaring harmonies.

1995

• David Brawl, "Thinkin' Trouble"
• John Berry, "Your Honey Amazes Me"
• Vince Gill, "When Beloved Finds You"
• John Michael Montgomery, "I Swear"
• Dwight Yoakam, "Pocket of a Clown"

The Grammys were getting irksome, with Gill winning his third in this category the aforementioned evening that Mary Chapin Carpenter picked up her fourth in the Female category.

1994

• Garth Brooks, "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Upwardly)"
• Alan Jackson, "Chattahoochee"
• George Jones, "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair"
• Aaron Neville, "The Grand Tour"
• Dwight Yoakam, "Own't That Lonely Nevertheless"

An astonished Yoakam accustomed his Grammy on the live telecast, his only victory in this category in ten nominations. It'south also one of the few hits he had that was neither self-written nor a cover of another artist'south hitting.

1993

• Garth Brooks, The Hunt
• Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart"
• Vince Gill, I Still Believe in Y'all
• Randy Travis, "Better Class of Losers"
• Travis Tritt, "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Homo"

Gill was the last artist to win this category for a full-length album. The same set won Album of the Twelvemonth at the CMA'south.

1992

• Garth Brooks, Ropin' the Wind
• Billy Dean, "Somewhere in My Cleaved Eye"
• Vince Gill, Pocket Total of Golden
• Alan Jackson, Don't Stone the Jukebox
• Travis Tritt, "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)"

Despite breaking records, Brooks was left out of the big categories at the 1992 Grammys. He did win for his merely nomination that evening, over a field that shows only how excellent commercial state was in the early nineties.

1991

• Garth Brooks, "Friends in Low Places"
• Vince Gill, "When I Telephone call Your Name"
• Doug Stone, "I'd Be Meliorate Off (In a Pine Box)"
• Randy Travis, "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart"
• Dwight Yoakam, "Turn it On, Plow it Up, Turn Me Loose"

Information technology would somewhen get a yearly tradition, merely when Vince Gill won his first Grammy, information technology was subsequently more than than a decade in the recording industry.

1990

• Clint Black, Killin' Time
• Rodney Crowell, "After All This Fourth dimension"
• Lyle Lovett, Lyle Lovett & His Big Band
• Randy Travis, "Information technology's But a Matter of Time"
• Keith Whitley, "I'm No Stranger to the Rain"

Lovett is another frequent nominee in this category who has only actually won once.  The album includes his cheeky comprehend of the Tammy Wynette archetype "Stand up By Your Man."

1989

• Rodney Crowell, Diamonds and Dirt
• Lyle Lovett, Pontiac
• Dan Seals, "Addicted"
• Randy Travis, Sometime 8×10
• Dwight Yoakam, Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room

Not i of Travis' better albums, but who doesn't enjoy "Deeper Than the Holler"?  Seals'south but nomination in this category is for a song written by popular folk star Cheryl Wheeler, who also penned the Suzy Bogguss hit "Aces."

1988

• Steve Earle, Leave O
• George Strait, "All My Ex's Live in Texas"
• Randy Travis, Always & Forever
• Hank Williams, Jr., Built-in to Boogie
• Dwight Yoakam, Hillbilly Deluxe

Grammy partially redeems itself for overlooking Travis, Earle and Yoakam the previous year. Travis' 2nd anthology is almost adept as his legendary debut.

1987

• Steve Earle, Guitar Boondocks
• Ronnie Milsap, Lost in the Fifties Tonight
• Randy Travis, "Diggin' Upwards Basic"
• Hank Williams, Jr., "Own't Misbehavin'"
• Dwight Yoakam, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.

Three of country'due south virtually artistically significant newcomers lose to the album domicile of the previous year'southward winning entry. The nigh charitable explanation I can come upwardly with is they split the vote.

1986

• Lee Greenwood, "I Don't Mind the Thorns (If You lot're the Rose)"
• Mel McDaniel, "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On"
• Ronnie Milsap, "Lost in the Fifties This evening"
• Willie Nelson, "Loving You Was Like shooting fish in a barrel"
• Ricky Skaggs, "You Brand Me Feel Like a Man"

Milsap, ever the Grammy favorite, striking the sweet spot of nostalgic voters with this swooning throwback to fifties pop that borrowed heavily from "In the Nonetheless of the Nighttime."

1985

• Lee Greenwood, "God Bless the U.South.A."
• Merle Haggard, "That'south the Way Love Goes"
• Willie Nelson, "Metropolis of New Orleans"
• Ricky Skaggs, Country Male child
• Hank Williams, Jr., "All My Rowdy Friends are Coming Over Tonight"

Haggard finally wins in this category, and with one of his very best ballads.   He would later cover the vocal with Precious stone, back when she was kickoff contemplating making the spring to country music.

1984

• Ray Charles, "Born to Dearest Me"
• Earl Thomas Conley, "Property Her and Loving You lot"
• Vern Gosdin, "If You're Gonna Practise Me Wrong (Exercise information technology Right)"
• Lee Greenwood, "I.O.U."
• Ronnie Milsap, "Stranger in My House"
• Kenny Rogers, "All My Life"

Lee Greenwood's triumph here with "I'm Merely a Gigolo" "I.O.U." came merely months afterwards beingness named Male Vocalist at the CMA awards.   Surprisingly, he was not a winner of the Grammy for Best Album Package.

1983

• Ronnie Milsap, "He Got You"
• Willie Nelson, "Always On My Mind"
• Jerry Reed, "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)"
• Kenny Rogers, "Honey Volition Turn Y'all Effectually"
• Ricky Skaggs, "Heartbroke"

Willie Nelson'due south career has been one with many zeniths.   Commercially speaking, "Always on My Mind" was the highest ane.   Information technology's no surprise that it earned him a Grammy.

1982

• John Anderson, "I'k Just an Quondam Clamper of Coal"
• George Jones, "Still Doin' Fourth dimension"
• Ronnie Milsap, "(There'due south No) Gettin' Over Me"
• Willie Nelson, Somewhere Over the Rainbow
• Eddie Rabbitt, "Step past Step"

Milsap again. It was a shame, since they could've gone for Jones again or for newcomer John Anderson.

1981

• George Burns, "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"
• George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
• Johnny Lee, "Lookin' For Love"
• Willie Nelson, "On the Road Again"
• Eddie Rabbitt, "Drivin' My Life Abroad"

Well, obviously. Information technology's non only Jones'south biggest striking ever, it's arguably the greatest state single of all time.

1980

• Willie Nelson, "Whiskey River"
• Charley Pride, Burgers & Fries
• Eddie Rabbitt, "Every Which Way But Loose"
• Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler"
• Hank Williams, Jr., Family unit Tradition

Rogers has won for both of his signature songs in this category. This is the 1 that led to several  made-for-television movies.

1979

• Waylon Jennings, I've Ever Been Crazy
• Ronnie Milsap, "Let'southward Take the Long Manner Around the World"
• Willie Nelson, "Georgia On My Mind"
• Elvis Presley, "Softly Every bit I Exit Y'all"
• Johnny Pacycheck, "Take This Job and Shove It"
• Kenny Rogers, Dear or Something Like It
  

Nelson's biggest-selling anthology Stardust gets its due as the Grammy goes to one of the album's highlights.

1978

• Larry Gatlin, "I Don't Wanna Cry"
• Waylon Jennings, "Luckenbach, Texas"
• Ronnie Milsap, "Information technology Was Almost Like a Song"
• Kenny Rogers, "Lucille"
• Jerry Jeff Walker, "Mr. Bojangles"

This is the signature Rogers hit that hasn't led to made-for-television movies, only it does boast a singalong chorus.   Who knows how many people have told off Lucille in the past thirty years?

1977

• Mac Davis, Forever Lovers
• Larry Gatlin, "Cleaved Lady"
• Waylon Jennings, Are You Ready For the Country
• Ronnie Milsap, "(I'm a) Stand By My Woman Man"
• Willie Nelson, "I'd Accept to Be Crazy"

Less than a decade subsequently Tammy Wynette won a Grammy for "Stand By Your Human", Milsap's male spin on the theme earned him a trophy.

1976

• Glen Campbell, "State Boy (Y'all've Got Your Feet in L.A.)"
• John Denver, "Thank God I'yard a Country Male child"
• Freddy Fender, "Earlier the Side by side Teardrop Falls"
• Waylon Jennings, "Are You lot Sure Hank Done it This Way"
• Willie Nelson, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
  

Even classics by Fender and Jennings tin't bear upon the Nelson masterpiece.

1975

• Glen Campbell, "Bonaparte's Retreat"
• Roy Clark, The Entertainer
• Waylon Jennings, "I'm a Ramblin' Man"
• Ronnie Milsap, "Delight Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
• Charley Pride, State Feelin'

Roofing Kristofferson is a good way to get a Grammy. Just ask Ray Price and Sammi Smith.

1974

• Tom T. Hall, "Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine"
• Kris Kristofferson, "Why Me"
• Charley Pride, "Amazing Love"
• Charlie Rich, "Behind Closed Doors"
• Johnny Russell, "Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer"

Of course, Kristofferson recording his own work didn't pb to a Grammy. In another twelvemonth, it might accept, merely Rich is the stuff of legend here.

1973

• Merle Haggard, "Information technology'south Not Dear (Only it'south Non Bad)
• Waylon Jennings, "Proficient Hearted Woman"
• Jerry Lee Lewis, "Chantilly Lace"
• Charley Pride, Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs
• Charlie Rich, "I Have information technology On Abode"

The album home of "Kiss an Angel Good Morning" gets the Grammy that the single lost the previous twelvemonth.

1972

• Freddie Hart, "Easy Loving"
• Johnny Paycheck, "She's All I Got"
• Ray Price, "I Won't Mention information technology Again"
• Charley Pride, "Kiss an Affections Good Forenoon"
• Jerry Reed, "When You lot're Hot (You're Hot)"
  

Reed won against a drove of classic recordings.   This was one of those years where a victory past whatever of the nominees would be justified.

1971

• Johnny Greenbacks, "Sunday Morning Coming Down"
• Merle Haggard, Okie From Muskogee
• Charley Pride, Charley Pride's 10th Album
• Ray Price, "For the Skillful Times"
• Jerry Reed, "Amos Moses"

The other way to lose a Grammy with a Kristofferson song? Be nominated against another Kristofferson vocal! In some other stone-solid set up of nominees, Toll'due south classic rendition of "For the Skilful Times" takes the golden, even though Cash had won the previous two years.

1970

• Johnny Greenbacks, "A Boy Named Sue"
• Clay Hart, "Bound"
• Bobby Lewis, "From Heaven to Heartache"
• Charley Pride, "All I Accept to Offering You is Me"
• Jerry Reed, "Are You From Dixie"
  

Cash became the second artist to win this two years in a row.   That both of his victories were recorded alive in prison is pretty remarkable in itself.

1969

• Glen Campbell, "I Wanna Live"
• Henson Cargill, "Skip a Rope"
• Johnny Cash, "Folsom Prison house Blues (Live)"
• Roger Miller, "Trivial Green Apples"
• Porter Wagoner, "The Carroll Canton Accident"

It was already i of his best songs, but afterward hearing it performed live for the inmates of Folsom Prison house, the original recording sounds almost quaint.

1968

• Jim Ed Brown, "Popular a Tiptop"
• Glen Campbell, "Gentle On My Mind"
• Jack Greene, "All the Time"
• Charley Pride, "Does My Ring Injure Your Finger"
• Porter Wagoner, "Cold Difficult Facts of Life"
  

Glen Campbell's crossover success would help him win several Grammy awards in 1968 and 1969.  Wagoner's cited here for his best unmarried.

1967

• Ben Colder, "Almost Persuaded No. ii″
• Jack Greene, "In that location Goes My Everything"
• David Houston, "Nigh Persuaded"
• Charley Pride, "But Between You and Me"
• Jim Reeves, "Distant Drums"

David Houston emerged victorious with a classic anthem for those who almost cheat.   Perhaps Colder came in second.

1966

• Eddy Arnold, "Make the World Go Away"
• Bobby Blank, "Talk Me Some Sense"
• Carl Belew, "Crystal Chandelier"
• Roger Miller, "King of the Road"
• Jim Reeves, "Is it Really Over?"

Can't you lot hear those sweeping strings and Arnold's soaring vocals equally soon as you lot read the words "Brand the Globe Become Away"?   Anyway,  non only did "King of the Route" win several Grammys in 1966, the parody "Queen of the House" fifty-fifty won the female bays.

1965

• Bobby Blank, "Four Strong Winds"
• Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line"
• George Hamilton IV, Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston
• Sonny James, You're the Simply World I Know
• Hank Locklin, Hank Locklin Sings Hank Williams
• Roger Miller, "Dang Me"
• Cadet Owens, My Heart Skips a Beat

Miller won the first bays in this category, i of xi victories in just two years.

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