Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

The award recognizes albums with excellent album notes, sometimes referred to as liner notes. It is presented to the album notes author or authors, not to the artists or performers on the winning work, except if the artist is also the album notes author. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

• Name — Grammy Award for Best Album Notes • Awarded For — Quality album liner notes • Presenter — National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences • Country — United States • Year — 1964 • Holder — Ashley Kahn – Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (2026) • Website — grammy.com

• Year — Work — Recipient(s) — Performing artist(s) • 1964 • The Ellington Era — Stanley Dance and Leonard Feather — Duke Ellington • The Amazing Amanda Ambrose — Bob Bollard — Amanda Ambrose • The Badmen — Benjamin A. Botkin, James L. Horan, Harold Preece and Sylvester L. Vigilante — Pete Seeger and Others • The Barbra Streisand Album — Harold Arlen — Barbra Streisand • An Evening of Elizabethan Music — Sidney Bock — Julian Bream • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Edward Albee and Harold Clurman — Original Cast • 1965 • Mexico (Legacy Collection) — Carleton Beals and Stanton Catlin — Carlos Chávez • Beyond the Fringe '64 — Alexander Cohen — Original Cast • The Definitive Piaf — Rory Guy — Édith Piaf • Getz/Gilberto — Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Gene Lees — Stan Getz and João Gilberto • Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in a C Sharp Minor/Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts — Neville Cardus — Erich Leinsdorf • Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini — Jack Tracy — Quincy Jones • The Young Chevalier — George Sponholtz — Maurice Chevalier • 1966 • September of My Years — Stan Cornyn — Frank Sinatra • Berg: Wozzeck — Otto Gerdes and Gustav Rudolf Sellner — Karl Böhm conducting Orchestra of German Opera - Berlin • Father and Son — Charles Lamb — Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr. • Grand Terrace Band — Stanley Dance — Earl Hines • The Voice of the Uncommon Man — Dom Cerulli — Adlai Stevenson • 1967 • Sinatra at the Sands — Stan Cornyn — Frank Sinatra • Ben Colder Strikes Again — Harvey Cowen — Ben Colder • Doctor Zhivago — Nelson Lyon — Maurice Jarre • Edward R. Murrow: A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I — The War Years — Fred Friendly — Edward R. Murrow • The Ellington Era, Vol. II — Stanley Dance and Ralph J. Gleason — Duke Ellington • 1968 • Suburban Attitudes in Country Verse — John D. Loudermilk — John D. Loudermilk • The Earth — Rod McKuen — Rod McKuen and Anita Kerr • Extra Special! — Rory Guy — Peggy Lee • The Far East Suite — Stanley Dance — Duke Ellington • Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim — Stan Cornyn — Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim • Listen! — Richard Oliver — Gary Lewis and the Playboys • 1969 • Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison — Johnny Cash — Johnny Cash • Anthology of Indian Music, Volume One — Richard Oliver — Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan and Balachander • Ethel Waters on Stage and Screen 1925-1940 — Miles Kreuger — Ethel Waters • Francis A. & Edward K. — Stan Cornyn — Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington • Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits — Pete Seeger — Pete Seeger

• Year — Work — Recipient(s) — Performing artist(s) • 1970 • Nashville Skyline — Johnny Cash — Bob Dylan • Chicago Mess Around — John Dodds II — Johnny Dodds • David's Album — Joan Baez — Joan Baez • John Hartford — John Hartford — John Hartford • Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short at Town Hall — Rex Reed — Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short • 1971 • The World's Greatest Blues Singer — Chris Albertson — Bessie Smith • As I See It — Billy Edd Wheeler — Jack Moran • Bitches Brew — Ralph J. Gleason — Miles Davis • Hold Back the World — Rod McKuen — Alexander's Greyhound Bass • I Do Not Play No Rock 'n Roll — Anthony D'Oberoff — Mississippi Fred McDowell • Judy. London. 1969. — Rex Reed — Judy Garland • Sixteen All Time Greatest Hits — James Goodfriend — Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Arthur Knight — John Green Orchestra • 1972 • Sam, Hard and Heavy — Sam Samudio — Sam the Sham • The Genius of Louis Armstrong — Don DeMicheal — Louis Armstrong • Honky Tonkin' with Charlie Walker — Tom West — Charlie Walker • Louis Armstrong: July 4, 1900—July 6, 1971 — Nat Hentoff — Louis Armstrong • Miles Davis — Colman Andrews — Miles Davis • Music of Varese — James Lyons — Konstantin Simonovitch • Piano Rags by Scott Joplin — Joshua Rifkin — Joshua Rifkin • This Is Benny Goodman — George T. Simon — Benny Goodman • 1973 — Best Album Notes • Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits — Tom T. Hall — Tom T. Hall • Bunny Berigan, His Trumpet and His Orchestra, Volume 1 — Dan Morgenstern — Bunny Berigan • Lenny Bruce: Carnegie Hall — Albert Goldman — Lenny Bruce • Let My Children Hear Music — Charlie Mingus — Charlie Mingus • Super Chief — Michael Brooks — Count Basie • Best Album Notes — Classical • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony) — James Lyons — André Previn • Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini — David Cairns — Colin Davis • Haydn: Symphonies (Complete), Vols. 4 and 5 — H. C. Robbins Landon — Antal Doráti • John Ogdon Plays Alkan — Sacheverell Sitwell — John Ogdon • Julian and John — Tom Eastwood — Julian Bream and John Williams • Michael Rabin: In Memoriam — Karolynne Gee — Michael Rabin • String Quartets of the New Viennese School — Ursula von Rauchhaupt — LaSalle Quartet • 1974 — Best Album Notes • God Is in the House — Dan Morgenstern — Art Tatum • Lonesome, On'ry and Mean — Chet Flippo — Waylon Jennings • Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back — Stan Cornyn — Frank Sinatra • Remember Marilyn — Lionel Newman — Marilyn Monroe • This Is Jimmie Rodgers — William Ivey — Jimmie Rodgers • Best Album Notes — Classical • Hindemith: Sonatas for Piano — Glenn Gould — Glenn Gould • Bach: Brandenburg Concerti — Erik Smith — Neville Marriner • Berio: Recital 1 (For Cathy) — Misha Donat — Cathy Berberian • Bizet: Carmen — Harvey Phillips — Leonard Bernstein • Debussy: La mer/Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2 — Clair W. Van Ausdall — Eugene Ormandy • Dvorák: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 87 — Irving Kolodin — Guarneri Quartet and Arthur Rubinstein • Haydn: Symphony No. 20 in C Major – Symphony No. 35 in B Flat — H. C. Robbins Landon — Antal Doráti • Haydn: Symphony No. 36 and Symphony No. 48 — H. C. Robbins Landon — Antal Doráti • Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano — Alan Rich — Eugene Ormandy and Arthur Rubinstein • The Woods So Wild — Tom Eastwood — Julian Bream • 1975 — Best Album Notes • For the Last Time (TIE) — Charles R. Townsend — Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys • The Hawk Flies (TIE) — Dan Morgenstern — Coleman Hawkins • 50 Years of Film Music (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Recordings) — Rudy Behlmer — Various Artists • The Pianist — Ralph J. Gleason — Duke Ellington • The World Is Still Waiting for the Sunrise — J.R. Young — Les Paul and Mary Ford • Best Album Notes — Classical • Korngold: The Classic Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Rory Guy — Willy Mattes and Ulf Hoelscher • Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust — David Cairns — Colin Davis • Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann — Christopher Palmer — Various Artists • Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel — George Jellinek — Kurt Eichhorn • Mahler: Symphony No. 10 — Deryck Cooke — Wyn Morris • Mozart: Don Giovanni — Erik Smith — Colin Davis • Rachmaninoff: The Bells and Three Russian Songs — Clair W. Van Ausdall — Eugene Ormandy • Scriabin: Piano Music (Complete), Volume II — Donald Garvelmann — Michael Ponti • Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani — Irving Kolodin — James Levine • Weber: Der Freischütz — Wolfram Schwinger — Erich Kleiber • 1976 — Best Album Notes • Blood on the Tracks — Pete Hamill — Bob Dylan • Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 — Tom T. Hall — Tom T. Hall • A Legendary Performer: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra — George T. Simon — Glenn Miller • The Real Lenny Bruce — Ralph J. Gleason — Lenny Bruce • The Tatum Solo Masterpieces — Benny Green — Art Tatum • Best Album Notes — Classical • Footlifters — Gunther Schuller — Gunther Schuller • The English Harpsichord (Byrd, Farnaby, Etc.) — Judith Robison — Igor Kipnis • Gagliano: La Dafne — James H. Moore — Paul Vorwerk • Gershwin: Gershwin's S'wonderful — Rory Guy — Ralph Grierson and Artie Kane • Haydn: Symphonies 93–104 — H. C. Robbins Landon — Antal Doráti • Joplin: The Complete Works of Scott Joplin — Rudi Blesh — Dick Hyman • Joplin: The Easy Winners — Rory Guy and Itzhak Perlman — Itzhak Perlman and André Previn • Kodály: Orchestral Works (Complete) — Laszlo Eosze — Antal Doráti • Korngold: Die Tote Stadt — Christopher Palmer — Erich Leinsdorf • 1977 • The Changing Face of Harlem: Savoy Sessions — Dan Morgenstern — Various Artists • Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos — George R. Marek — Daniel Barenboim and Arthur Rubinstein • The Blue Sky Boys — Douglas B. Green — Bill and Earl Bolick • Caruso: A Legendary Performer — Francis Robinson — Enrico Caruso • The Complete Tommy Dorsey, Volume 1 – 1935 — Mort Goode — Tommy Dorsey • 1978 • Bing Crosby: A Legendary Performer — George T. Simon — Bing Crosby • Flight Log — Patrick Snyder — Jefferson Airplane • Guy Lombardo: A Legendary Performer — George T. Simon — Guy Lombardo • The Lester Young Story, Vol. I — Michael Brooks — Lester Young • Stormy Blues — Chris Albertson — Billie Holiday • 1979 • A Bing Crosby Collection, Vols. I and II — Michael Brooks — Bing Crosby • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies — Bill Bender and Irving Kolodin — Herbert von Karajan • Ellington at Carnegie Hall, 1943 — Leonard Feather — Duke Ellington • Georgia Sea Island Songs — Alan Lomax — Various Artists • The Individualism of Pee Wee Russell — Dan Morgenstern — Pee Wee Russell • Works of Carpenter/Gilbert/Weiss/Powell — David Baker and R. D. Darrell — Calvin Simmons, Lawrence Foster and Los Angeles Philharmonic

• Year — Work — Recipient(s) — Performing artist(s) • 1980 • Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Sessions — James Patrick and Bob Porter — Charlie Parker • Billie Holiday (Giants of Jazz) — Melvin Maddocks — Billie Holiday • Duke Ellington (Giants of Jazz) — Stanley Dance and Dan Morgenstern — Duke Ellington • Hoagy Carmichael: A Legendary Performer and Composer — Richard M. Sudhalter — Hoagy Carmichael • The Magical Music of Walt Disney — Dick Schory — Various Artists • 1981 • Trilogy: Past Present Future — David McClintock — Frank Sinatra • Atlanta Blues: 1933 — Bruce Bastin and David Evans — Blind Willie McTell, Curley Weaver and Buddy Moss • Chicago Concert, 1956 — Dan Morgenstern — Louis Armstrong • Elvis Aron Presley — Lorene Lortie — Elvis Presley • Lester Young (Giants of Jazz) — John McDonough and Richard M. Sudhalter — Lester Young • 1982 • Erroll Garner: Master of the Keyboard — Dan Morgenstern — Erroll Garner • Fats Waller (Giants of Jazz) — Philip W. Payne and David Thomson — Fats Waller • James P. Johnson (Giants of Jazz) — Frank Kappler, Willa Rouder and Dick Wellstood — James P. Johnson • The Mario Lanza Collection — Chick Crumpacker — Mario Lanza • Pee Wee Russell (Giants of Jazz) — John McDonough — Pee Wee Russell • 1983 • Bunny Berigan (Giants of Jazz) — John Chilton and Richard M. Sudhalter — Bunny Berigan • Duke Ellington 1941 — Gary Giddins — Duke Ellington and His Orchestra • An Experiment in Modern Music: Paul Whiteman at Aeolian Hall — Thornton Hagert — Paul Whiteman • The Greatest Country Music Recordings of All Time — William Ivey — Various Artists • Sixty Years of Country Music — William Ivey and Bob Pinson — Various Artists • Young Blood — Robert Palmer — The Coasters • 1984 • The Interplay Sessions — Orrin Keepnews — Bill Evans • The Fugs Greatest Hits, Vol. I — Lester Bangs — The Fugs • The Okeh Sessions — Peter Guralnick — Big Maybelle • Joe Sullivan (Giants of Jazz) — Richard B. Hadlock — Joe Sullivan • Seven Come Eleven — John McDonough — Benny Goodman • 1985 • Big Band Jazz — Gunther Schuller and Martin Williams — Various Artists • Amadeus (Original Soundtrack Recording) — Grover Sales — Neville Marriner • An Anthology of Sacred Carols for Classical Guitar — James Sundquist — James Sundquist • A Golden Celebration — Lorene Lortie and Z Factor — Elvis Presley • Virginia Traditions/Virginia Work Songs (Field Recordings 1936-1980) — Glenn Hinson — Various Artists • 1986 • Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 — Peter Guralnick — Sam Cooke • American Popular Song — Dwight Blocker Bowers and James R. Morris — Various Artists • Bleecker and McDougal: The Folk Scene of the 60's — Lenny Kaye — Various Artists • Crossroads: White Blues in the 1960s — Lenny Kaye — Various Artists • The Girl from Ipanema: The Bossa Nova Years — Neil Tesser — Stan Getz • 1987 • The Voice: The Columbia Years 1943–1952 — Frank Conroy, Gary Giddins, Stephen Holden, Murray Kempton, Andrew Sarris, Jonathan Schwartz and Wilfrid Sheed — Frank Sinatra • Biograph — Cameron Crowe — Bob Dylan • Elektrock: The Sixties — Lenny Kaye — Various Artists • The Mapleson Cylinders — David Hall, David Hamilton, Tom Owen, John Stratton and Robert Tuggle — Various Metropolitan Opera Artists • Virtuosi — Richard Freed and Peter Eliot Stone — Various Artists • 1988 • Thelonious Monk: The Complete Riverside Recordings — Orrin Keepnews — Thelonious Monk • The Bristol Sessions — Charles K. Wolfe — Various Artists • The Complete Sun Sessions — Peter Guralnick — Elvis Presley • Jimmie Rodgers on Record: America's Blue Yodeler — Nolan Porterfield — Jimmie Rodgers • Singers and Soloists of the Swing Bands — Mark Tucker — Various Artists • 1989 • Crossroads — Anthony DeCurtis — Eric Clapton • The Classic Hoagy Carmichael — John Edward Hasse — Hoagy Carmichael • The Complete Commodore Jazz Recordings, Vol. I — Dan Morgenstern — Various Artists • Show Boat — Miles Kreuger — John McGlinn, Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley and Teresa Stratas • Virginia Traditions: Southwest Virginia Blues — Vaughn Webb — Various Artists

• Year — Work — Recipient(s) — Performing artist(s) • 1990 • Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve — Phil Schaap — Charlie Parker • American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars — Dwight Blocker Bowers — Various Artists • The Complete Fantasy Recordings — Gene Lees — Bill Evans • Jazz Piano — Francis Davis, Dick Katz and Martin Williams — Various Artists • Now That's a Good Tune — Howard Wight Marshall, Amy Skillman and Charles Walden — Masters of Traditional Missouri Fiddling • 1991 • Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown — Dan Morgenstern — Clifford Brown • Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings — Gary Giddins — Art Pepper • Bo Diddley: The Chess Box — Robert Palmer — Bo Diddley • The Jack Kerouac Collection — David Perry — Jack Kerouac • Muddy Waters: The Chess Box — Mary Katherine Aldin and Robert Palmer — Muddy Waters • 1992 • Star Time — James Brown, Nelson George, Alan M. Leeds, Harry Weinger and Cliff White — James Brown • The Birth of Soul — Robert Palmer — Ray Charles • The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare and Unreleased) — John Bauldie — Bob Dylan • The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959–1968 — Rob Bowman — Various Artists • The Original Singles Collection...Plus — Colin Escott — Hank Williams • 1993 • Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings — Thulani Davis, Tom Dowd, Ahmet Ertegun, Arif Mardin, Dave Marsh, David Ritz and Jerry Wexler — Aretha Franklin • The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio — Will Friedwald and Dick Katz — Nat King Cole Trio • Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll — The Complete 50s Masters — Peter Guralnick — Elvis Presley • Roots 'N Blues: The Retrospective (1925–1950) — Lawrence Cohn and Pete Welding — Various Artists • You're the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s — Robert Kimball and Richard M. Sudhalter — Various Artists • 1994 • The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve 1945-1959 — Buck Clayton, Phil Schaap and Joel E. Siegel — Billie Holiday • King of the Blues — Colin Escott — B. B. King • The Complete Riverside Recordings — Jim Ferguson and Orrin Keepnews — Wes Montgomery • Elvis: From Nashville to Memphis — The Essential 60s Masters — Peter Guralnick — Elvis Presley • Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta Recorded in the Field by Alan Lomax — Alan Lomax and Robert Palmer — Various Artists • 1995 • Louis Armstrong: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1923–1934 — Dan Morgenstern and Loren Schoenberg — Louis Armstrong • Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings — Yves Beauvais, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman and Robert Palmer — Ornette Coleman • The Complete Bud Powell on Verve — Celia Powell, Peter Pullman, Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver — Bud Powell • Otis! The Definitive — Carol Cooper, Steve Greenberg and Jaime Wolf — Otis Redding • Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story 1959-1965 — Peter Guralnick — Sam Cooke • 1996 • The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972–1975 — Rob Bowman — Various Artists • 25th Anniversary: Retrospective — John Fricke — Judy Garland • Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings — Geoffrey Mark Fidelman and James Gavin — Ella Fitzgerald • I'll Be Seeing You: A Tribute to Carmen McRae — Dan Morgenstern — Carmen McRae • Let's Do It: Best of the Verve Years — Dan Morgenstern — Louis Armstrong • 1997 • The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings — George Avakian, Bob Belden, Bill Kirchner and Phil Schaap — Miles Davis and Gil Evans • The Complete Capitol Singles Collection — Will Friedwald — Frank Sinatra • The Complete Recordings, Vol. 5: The Final Chapter — Chris Albertson — Bessie Smith • Mean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1994 — Lawrence Hoffman — Various Artists • The Mel Tormé Collection: 1944-1985 — Will Friedwald, Dave Kapp and Mel Tormé — Mel Tormé • 1998 • Anthology of American Folk Music: 1997 Expanded Edition — John Fahey, Luis Kemnitzer, Jon Pankake, Chuck Pirtle, Jeff Place, Neil V. Rosenberg, Lucy Sante, Peter Stampfel and Eric Von Schmidt — Various Artists • Anthology — Robert Gordon — Al Green • Farewells & Fantasies — Ben Edmonds, Mark Kemp, Meegan Lee Ochs and Michael Ventura — Phil Ochs • Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection — Dave Alvin, James Austin, Bill Dahl, Ahmet Ertegun, David Ritz, Billy Vera and Jerry Wexler — Ray Charles • Titanic: Music As Heard on the Fateful Voyage — Ian Whitcomb — Various Artists • 1999 • Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 — Bob Belden, Todd Coolman and Michael Cuscuna — Miles Davis Quintet • Charles Mingus: Passions of a Man — The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 — Joel Dorn, Tom Dowd, Andrew Homzy, Patrick Milligan, Sue Mingus, Tina Marisa Rocchio and Stefano Zenni — Charles Mingus • The Complete Hank Williams — Daniel Cooper and Colin Escott — Hank Williams • From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music — Bill Ivey, Bill C. Malone, Claudia Perry, John W. Rumble and Ron Wynn — Various Artists • New York Philharmonic: The Historic Broadcasts 1923 to 1987 — Sedgwick Clark, Barbara Haws, Kurt Masur, Alan Rich, Robert Sherman and Steven Smolian — New York Philharmonic

• Year — Work — Recipient(s) — Performing artist(s) • 2000 • John Coltrane: The Classic Quartet — The Complete Impulse! Recordings — Bob Blumenthal — John Coltrane • Hank Williams: Live at the Grand Ole Opry — Rick Bragg — Hank Williams • The Last Soul Company — Rob Bowman — Various Artists • Ray Charles: The Complete Country & Western Recordings (1959-1986) — Daniel Cooper — Ray Charles • Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century — Marc Kirkeby — Various Artists • 2001 • Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 — Bob Blumenthal — Miles Davis and John Coltrane • The Best of Broadside 1962–1988: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine — Jeff Place — Various Artists • The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve — John Chilton — Lester Young • Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat — Bud Scoppa — Little Feat • The Remains of Tom Lehrer — Dr. Demento — Tom Lehrer • Yes I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story — Gerald Early — Sammy Davis Jr. • 2002 •...And It's Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) (TIE) — Walter Mosley — Richard Pryor • Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: 1960–2000 The Journey of Chris Strachwitz (TIE) — Elijah Wald — Various Artists • The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music — Mari Evans — Various Artists • Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance — Gerald Early — Various Artists • The Stax Story — Rob Bowman — Various Artists • 2003 • Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton — David H. Evans Jr. — Charlie Patton • Artie Shaw: Self Portrait — Artie Shaw — Artie Shaw • The Golden Road (1965-1973) — Dennis McNally — Grateful Dead • Sinatra in Hollywood (1940-1964) — Will Friedwald — Frank Sinatra • A State of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981 — Tim Page — Glenn Gould • 2004 • Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey — Tom Piazza — Various Artists • Count Basie and His Orchestra: America's #1 Band! The Columbia Years — Loren Schoenberg — Count Basie and His Orchestra • Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings — Ashley Kahn — Nina Simone • Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection — Will Friedwald — Peggy Lee • Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers: The Complete Specialty Records Recordings — Daniel Wolff — Sam Cooke with The Soul Stirrers • 2005 • The Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman and His Orchestra & Woodchoppers (1945-1947) — Loren Schoenberg — Woody Herman and His Orchestra • The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall — Sean Wilentz — Bob Dylan • Carry It On — Barry Alfonso — Peter, Paul and Mary • Let the Buyer Beware — Paul Krassner — Lenny Bruce • No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion — Chris Morris — Various Artists • 2006 • The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax — John Szwed — Jelly Roll Morton • Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland/Dozier/Holland Story — Adam White — Various Artists • The Legend — Patrick Carr — Johnny Cash • Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) — David Ritz — Ray Charles • You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music — Henry Sapoznik — Charlie Poole and Various Artists • 2007 • If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It! — Dan Morgenstern — Fats Waller • Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926-1937 — Marshall Wyatt — Various Artists • Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 — Tim Brooks — Various Artists • Pirate Radio — Ben Edmonds — The Pretenders • There Is a Season — David Fricke — The Byrds • 2008 • John Work, III: Recording Black Culture — Bruce Nemerov — Various Artists • Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s — Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni — Various Artists • Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions — Loren Schoenberg — Chu Berry • Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings — David Sager — King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band • Ricky Jay Plays Poker — Ricky Jay — Various Artists • 2009 • Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition — Francis Davis — Miles Davis • Art of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum — Art Rosenbaum — Various Artists • Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph — Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni — William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft • Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul — David Ritz and Jerry Wexler — Aretha Franklin • The Unsung Father of Country Music: 1925-1934 — Henry Sapoznik — Ernest V. Stoneman

• Year — Work — Recipient(s) — Performing artist(s) • 2010 • The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) — Dan Morgenstern — Louis Armstrong • Dance-O-Mania: Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age, 1919-1923 — Mark Berresford — The Happy Six • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson — Music from the Film — Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp — Various Artists • My Dusty Road — Ed Cray and Bill Nowlin — Woody Guthrie • Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910-1922 — Lloyd Ecker and Susan Ecker — Sophie Tucker • 2011 • Keep an Eye on the Sky — Robert Gordon — Big Star • Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936-1937 — Gage Averill — Various Artists • Side Steps — Ashley Kahn — John Coltrane • There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909-1916 — Doug Seroff — Fisk University Jubilee Quartet • True Love Cast Out All Evil — Will Sheff — Roky Erickson with Okkervil River • 2012 • Hear Me Howling!: Blues, Ballads & Beyond as Recorded by the San Francisco Bay by Chris Strachwitz in the 1960s — Adam Machado — Various Artists • The Bang Years 1966–1968 — Neil Diamond — Neil Diamond • The Bristol Sessions, 1927–1928: The Big Bang of Country Music — Ted Olson and Tony Russell — Various Artists • The Music City Story: Street Corner Doo Wop, Raw R&B and Soulful Sounds from Berkeley, California 1950–75 — Alec Palao — Various Artists • Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology — Ken Shipley — Syl Johnson • 2013 • Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles — Billy Vera — Ray Charles • Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition — Stephen Wade — Stephen Wade • First Recordings: 50th Anniversary Edition — Hans Olof Gottfridsson — The Beatles with Tony Sheridan • The Pearl Sessions — Holly George-Warren — Janis Joplin • Piazzolla in Brooklyn — Fernando Gonzalez — Pablo Aslan Quintet • 2014 • Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded) — Neil Tesser — John Coltrane • 360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story — Sean Wilentz — Various Artists • Call It Art 1964–1965 — Ben Young — New York Art Quartet • Electric Music for the Mind and Body — Alec Palao — Country Joe and the Fish • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps — Jonathan Cott — Leonard Bernstein and New York Philharmonic • Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923–1936 — Nathan Salsburg — Various Artists • 2015 • Offering: Live at Temple University — Ashley Kahn — John Coltrane • Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides — David Sager — Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra • I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969–70 — Alec Palao — Various Artists • The Other Side of Bakersfield: 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West', Vol. 1 — Scott B. Bomar — Various Artists • Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound — Jon Kirby — Various Artists • The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917–27) — Scott Blackwood — Various Artists • 2016 • Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, a Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced — Joni Mitchell — Joni Mitchell • Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946 — James P. Leary — Various Artists • Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection — Jeff Place — Lead Belly • Portrait of an American Singer — Ted Olson — Tennessee Ernie Ford • Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916–1925 — Ryan Barna — Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra • 2017 • Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along — Ken Bloom and Richard Carlin — Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle • The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection — Mikal Gilmore — Kris Kristofferson • The Knoxville Sessions, 1929–1930: Knox County Stomp — Ted Olson and Tony Russell — Various Artists • Ork Records: New York, New York — Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley — Various Artists • Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890–1900 — Richard Martin — Various Artists • 2018 • Live at the Whisky a Go Go: The Complete Recordings — Lynell George — Otis Redding • Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble with the Truth — Wayne Bledsoe and Bradley Reeves — Various Artists • Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition — Ted Olson — Various Artists • The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin — Bryan S. Wright — Richard Dowling • Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute — David Giovannoni — Various Artists • Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams — Michael Corcoran — Washington Phillips • 2019 • Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris — David Evans — Various Artists • 4 Banjo Songs, 1891–1897: Foundational Recordings of America's Iconic Instrument — Richard Martin and Ted Olson — Charles A. Asbury • The 1960 Time Sessions — Ben Ratliff — Sonny Clark Trio • Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920–1924 — James P. Leary — Various Artists • The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra — David Gilbert — Various Artists • Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979–1981 (Deluxe Edition) — Amanda Petrusich — Bob Dylan

• Year — Work — Recipient(s) — Performing artist(s) • 2020 • Stax '68: A Memphis Story — Steve Greenberg — Various Artists • The Complete Cuba Jam Sessions — Judy Cantor-Navas — Various Artists • The Gospel According to Malaco — Robert Marovich — Various Artists • Pedal Steal + Four Corners — Brendan Greaves — Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band • Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection — Jeff Place — Pete Seeger • 2021 • Dead Man's Pop — Bob Mehr — The Replacements • At the Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines from the Studio, 1894–1926 — Tim Brooks — Various Artists • The Bakersfield Sound: Country Music Capital of the West, 1940–1974 — Scott B. Bomar — Various Artists • The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us from Joplin to Jazz and Shaped the Music Business — Colin Hancock — Various Artists • Out of a Clear Blue Sky — David Sager — Nat Brusiloff • 2022 • The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions, 1946–1966 — Ricky Riccardi — Louis Armstrong • Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas — Ann-Katrin Zimmermann — Sunwook Kim • Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology — Kevin Howes — Willie Dunn • Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889–1895 — David Giovannoni, Richard Martin and Stephan Puille — Various Artists • The King of Gospel Music: The Life and Music of Reverend James Cleveland — Robert Marovich — Various Artists • 2023 • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) — Bob Mehr — Wilco • The American Clavé Recordings — Fernando González — Astor Piazzolla • Andy Irvine & Paul Brady (Special Edition) — Gareth Murphy — Andy Irvine and Paul Brady • Harry Partch, 1942 — John Schneider — Harry Partch • Life's Work: A Retrospective — Ted Olson — Doc Watson • 2024 • Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos — Robert Gordon and Deanie Parker — Various Artists • Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy (Live) — Ashley Kahn — John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy • I Can Almost See Houston: The Complete Howdy Glenn — Scott B. Bomar — Howdy Glenn • Mogadishu's Finest: The Al Uruba Sessions — Vik Sohonie — Iftin Band • Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 — Jeff Place and John Troutman — Various Artists • 2025 • Centennial — Ricky Riccardi — King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and Various Artists • After Midnight — Tim Brooks — Ford Dabney's Syncopated Orchestras • The Carnegie Hall Concert — Lauren Du Graf — Alice Coltrane • John Culshaw: The Art of the Producer – The Early Years 1948–55 — Dominic Fyfe — John Culshaw • SONtrack Original de la Pelicula "Al Son de Beno" — Josh Kun — Various Artists • 2026 • Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings — Ashley Kahn — Miles Davis • Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964–1974 — Scott B. Bomar — Buck Owens and His Buckaroos • After the Last Sky — Adam Shatz — Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates and Dave Holland • Árabe — Amanda Ekery — Amanda Ekery • The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 — Alec Palao — Sly and the Family Stone • A Ghost Is Born (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) — Bob Mehr — Wilco