Brad Paisley And Alison Krauss - Only Two Country Artists Listed On NPR's 50 Most Important Recordings Of The Decade

NPR has released a list it calls the 50 Most Important Recordings Of The Decade, and the only two country artists to make the list are Brad Paisley, 5th Gear and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss' Raising Sand. According to NPR's website, the list "covers a wide range of styles and genres, with indelible songs and albums that challenge, inspire and captivate. These are the game-changers: records that signaled some sort of shift in the way music is made or sounds, or ones that were especially influential or historically significant."

I was surprised to see only two country artists on the list, and I was even more surprised at some of the people/groups on the list. Here's the complete list:

1. John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls
2. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. The Arcade Fire: Funeral
4. The Bad Plus: These Are The Vistas
5. Beyonce: Dangerously In Love
6. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
8. Burial: Untrue
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: S/T
10. Kelly Clarkson: Breakaway
11. Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
12. Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
13. Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlanticism
14. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
15. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
16. The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
17. Osvaldo Golijov: La Pasión Segun San Marcos (Saint Mark's Passion)
18. Green Day: American Idiot
19. Iron And Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
20. Jay-Z: The Blueprint
21. Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
22. Juanes: Fijate Bien
23. LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
24. Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter III
25. Little Brother: The Listening
26. M.I.A.: Kala
27. Yo-Yo Ma: Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet
28. Mastodon: Leviathan
29. Jason Moran: Black Stars
30. OutKast: Stankonia
31. Brad Paisley: 5th Gear
32. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
33. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
34. The Postal Service: Give Up
35. Radiohead: In Rainbows
36. Radiohead: Kid A
37. Shakira: Fijación Oral, Vol. 1
38. Sigur Ros: ( )
39. Britney Spears: In The Zone
40. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
41. The Strokes: Is This It
42. The Swell Season: Once Soundtrack
43. Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate: In The Heart Of The Moon
44. TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain
45. Various: Garden State Soundtrack
46. Various: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
47. Kanye West: The College Dropout
48. The White Stripes: White Blood Cells
49. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
50. Amy Winehouse: Back To Black

Who do you think should have made the list?

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Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Sugarland And George Strait Among The Big Winners At the 51st Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards have always been skewed much more towards Pop and R&B music than Country music, but nonetheless, country music was well represented. In addition to the winners, Taylor Swift performed her song Fifteen with help from Miley Cyrus.

Here's the list of winners from the Country and Bluegrass categories. Bluegrass/Country sweetheart Alison Krauss was the biggest winner of the night as she and Robert Plant picked up five Grammy Awards.

Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Carrie Underwood - Last Name
Best Male Country Vocal Performance: Brad Paisley - Letter To Me
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: Sugarland - Stay
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Killing The Blues
Best Country Instrumental Performance: Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert & Steve Wariner - Cluster Pluck
Best Country Song: Sugarland - Stay - Songwriter - Jennifer Nettles
Best Country Album: George Strait - Troubadour
Best Bluegrass Album: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant - Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)

Alison Krauss teamed up with Rock n' Roll legend Robert Plant to record an album called Raising Sand in late 2007. The first single from the album was called Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On). Surprisingly, it didn't even chart on the country charts. Enjoy!

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