Grammys To Honor Loretta Lynn, Harold Bradley, Walter Miller
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn, Harold Bradley, and Walter Miller will be honored by the Recording Academy this Grammy season. They will be feted at a special invitation-only ceremony to be held Saturday, Jan. 30, as part of Grammy week. A formal acknowledgment will also be made during the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards telecast, set for the next day at the L.A. Staples Center.
Lynn, a three-time Grammy winner, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for her nearly 50 years in the music industry. She strutted to the forefront of country music with her 1960 debut single “I’m A Honky Tonk Girl,” and an illustrious career followed. She has had more than 70 hits including the classics “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)” and “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which was also the name of her autobiography that was later adapted into a Hollywood film. Her most recent success came in 2004 when she won a pair of Grammys for her collaboration with Jack White on the album Van Lear Rose.
Harold Bradley
Acclaimed musician Bradley and longtime CMA Awards producer Miller will receive Trustees Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to the industry in a non-performing capacity.
Often called the most recorded musician in history, Harold Bradley and his brother Owen built Music Row’s first recording facility the Quonset Hut in the 1950s. Harold was president of AFM Local 257 for 17 years and has served as its international vice president for the past 10 years. He was the first president of The Recording Academy’s Nashville Chapter and was also a Nashville session musician for more than 50 years, which earned him a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Walter Miller
Miller has worked in television for more than 60 years as a producer and director of the Tony Awards, CMA Awards and for the last 29 years, the Grammy Awards. Miller was instrumental in helping shape some of Grammys’ most memorable moments including Aretha Franklin’s last-minute, unrehearsed rendition of “Nessun Dorma”; Bono presenting an award to Frank Sinatra; and Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang’s complex and thrilling piano performance of “Rhapsody In Blue.” The six-time Primetime Emmy® winner remains one of the most respected directors in the industry.
The Lifetime Achievement and Trustees awards are voted on by The Recording Academy’s National Board of Trustees. Leonard Cohen, Bobby Darin, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Michael Jackson, André Previn, and Clark Terry will also receive Lifetime Achievement Awards; and Florence Greenberg joins Bradley and Miller as a Trustees Award winner. AKG and Thomas Alva Edison will receive Technical Grammy Awards.
Another great award for my no.1 favorite singer:Loretta Lynn.In my book,she’s the greatest,and deserves every award she gets! She has such a beautiful voice, sings so pretty,and is a beautiful person,inside and out,with a beautiful voice to match. She is God’s gift to all of music and us. Can’t wait for her next recording. Keep singing and touring Loretta! We Love You!
It’s great that these three individuals are getting the credit they deserve especially Loretta.
On the subject of ‘Van Leer Rose’, the album was great, much better than it was received, but Jack White did not get the credit he deserved. I know that this is not the fifties but his doing something as he did for Loretta on the album would have almost made him Legendary, if it was done in the fifties.
I’m glad to know that the American Icon, Loretta Lynn, is still being recognized for her legendary career of almost fifty years! She still tours just about as much as she has for the past several decades, entertaining her enduring legion of fans and acquiring more along the way. I first met this amazing lady back in 1970 when she had just released Coal Miner’s Daughter. She was gracious to this ten year old boy who somehow found her dressing room back stage at the now demolished original Convention Center in Philadelphia. I’ll never forget those few minutes when I met the great Loretta Lynn. Actually I had the chance to meet her one more time after that, and she remembered me even though it was eight years later.