Grammy Award al miglior album folk contemporaneo

Il Grammy Award al miglior album folk contemporaneo (Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album) venne assegnato dal 1987 al 2011.

Fino al 1993 il premio era denominato Miglior registrazione folk contemporanea (Best Contemporary Folk Recording). Nel 2007 fu ribattezzato Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.

A partire dal 2012, questa categoria si rifonderà con la miglior album folk tradizionale per formare la nuova categoria miglior album folk.

Vincitori e candidati[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

Anni 1980[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

1987
- Tribute to Steve Goodman - AA.VV.; Al Bunetta, Dan Einstein e Hank Neuberger (produttori)
- German Afternoons - John Prine
- I'm Alright - Loudon Wainwright III
- Last of the True Believers - Nanci Griffith
- No Easy Walk to Freedom - Peter, Paul and Mary
1988
- Unfinished Business - Steve Goodman
- Asimbonanga - Joan Baez
- Annual Waltz - John Hartford
- More Love Songs - Loudon Wainwright III
- The Washington Squares - Washington Squares
1989
- Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
- John Prine Live - John Prine
- Short Sharp Shocked - Michelle Shocked
- Emergency - Sweet Honey in the Rock

Anni 1990[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

1990
- Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
- Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings
- Bayou Cadillac - BeauSoleil
- Crossroads - Tracy Chapman
- Old Friends - Guy Clark
1991
- Steady On - Shawn Colvin
- Days of Open Hand - Suzanne Vega
- Hammer and a Nail - Indigo Girls
- Helpless Heart - Maura O'Connell
1992
- The Missing Years - John Prine
- Live - Back On the Bus Y'all - Indigo Girls
- Cajun Conja - BeauSoleil
- Interiors - Rosanne Cash
- Jerry Garcia & David Grisman - Jerry Garcia e David Grisman
1993
- Another Country - The Chieftains
- Play Me Backwards - Joan Baez
- The Criminal Under My Own Hat - T-Bone Burnett
- Rites of Passage - Indigo Girls
- Arkansas Traveler - Michelle Shocked
1994
- Other Voices, Other Rooms - Nanci Griffith
- La Danse de la Vie - BeauSoleil
- Fat City - Shawn Colvin
- Good as I Been to You - Bob Dylan
- Spinning Around the Sun - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- Breaking Silence - Janis Ian
1995
- American Recordings - Johnny Cash
- Cover Girl - Shawn Colvin
- My Life - Iris DeMent
- Flyer - Nanci Griffith
- Swamp Ophelia - Indigo Girls
1996
- Wrecking Ball - Emmylou Harris
- The Long Black Veil - The Chieftains
- MTV Unplugged - Bob Dylan
- Train a Comin' - Steve Earle
- Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings - John Prine
1997
- The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
- Yonder - Jerry Douglas e Peter Rowan
- Braver New World - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- You? Me? Us? - Richard Thompson
- Revival - Gillian Welch

1998
- Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan
- Keepers - A Live Recording - Guy Clark
- The Way I Should - Iris DeMent
- Shaming of the Sun - Indigo Girls
- Live On Tour - John Prine
1999
- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
- Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg e Wilco
- El Corazon - Steve Earle
- Spyboy - Emmylou Harris
- Step Inside This House - Lyle Lovett

Anni 2000[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

2000
- Mule Variations - Tom Waits
- Cajunization - BeauSoleil
- Fellow Workers - Ani DiFranco ed Utah Phillips
- In Spite of Ourselves - John Prine
- Western Wall - The Tucson Sessions - Linda Ronstadt ed Emmylou Harris
2001
- Red Dirt Girl - Emmylou Harris
- Mermaid Avenue Vol. II - Billy Bragg e Wilco
- American III: Solitary Man - Johnny Cash
- Transcendental Blues - Steve Earle
- Crossing Muddy Waters - John Hiatt

2002
- Love and Theft - Bob Dylan
- Buddy & Julie Miller - Buddy and Julie Miller
- Poet: A Tribute to Townes van Zandt - AA.VV.
- Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch
- Essence - Lucinda Williams

2003
- This Side - Nickel Creek
- American IV: The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
- Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions - The Chieftains
- Jerusalem - Steve Earle
- 1000 Kisses - Patty Griffin