Steve Earle - Nominations and Awards

Nominations and Awards

• Earle has received fourteen nominations and three Grammy Awards.

2012 Nominated "Best Folk Album" for I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive.

2010 Won "Best Contemporary Folk Album" for Townes.

2008 Won "Best Contemporary Folk Album" for Washington Square Serenade.

2005 Won "Best Contemporary Folk Album" for The Revolution Starts...Now.

2005 Nominated “Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance” for The Revolution Starts...Now.

2003 Nominated "Best Contemporary Folk Album" for Jerusalem.

2001 Nominated "Best Contemporary Folk Album" for Transcendental Blues.

2000 Nominated "Best Bluegrass Album" for The Mountain with the Del McCoury Band.

1999 Nominated "Best Contemporary Folk Album" for El Corazón.

1996 Nominated "Best Contemporary Folk Album" for Train A Comin'. (Lost in 1996 to Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, which Earle co-produced.)

1988 Nominated "Best Country Male Vocalist" for Exit 0.

1988 Nominated "Best Country Song" for “Nowhere Road”.

1987 Nominated "Best Country Male Vocalist" for Guitar Town.

1987 Nominated "Best Country Song" for “Guitar Town”.

• He was named Country Artist of the Year for 1986 by Rolling Stone magazine.
• In 2004, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award for songwriting by the UK's BBC Radio 2.
• In July 2010, Earle was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Music and Lyrics category, for the song "This City," which was written for the television series Tremé.
• On May 13, 2011, Earle was granted an honorary degree from the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law.