58th GRAMMY Awards - worth watching Monday night...

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58th annual GRAMMY Awards, Monday night...

Tonight at 5 pm Pacific on CBS, with an 8:30 pm replay, the recording academy presents a GRAMMY Awards gala program that's finally worth watching for devotees of Americana music.

No, the awards in the Folk, Bluegrass, Blues and most other Folk-Americana genres have not been promoted from the earlier "kids table" event to joust with the Crubio Duo and the Bloviating Trumps. Those are still being bestowed to their recipients off-camera, before the broadcast.

But... after enduring years of ever-expanding cloned categories that multiplied awards for rap and hip-hop and electronica, the event will present the best music performances in a long time.

Centerpieces will be a pair of musical tributes to creative giants who both died in January.

In one tribute medley, Jackson Browne will join the surviving members of the Eagles in a tribute to Glenn Frey.

In the other, David Bowie's rich catalog will be celebrated.

Now, less time for rap does bring consequences in a year that the Oscar nominations unforgivably snubbed performances by, and films about, non-white actors and characters. So, there has been a counterpart to "OscarsSoWhite" with a low horsepower protest tabbed "GrammysSoWhite."

From our perspective — having seen nearly all the films that SHOULD have been serious contenders for the Oscar — the Motion Picture Academy blew it, egregiously and unforgivably so. But that is not the case with the choices for live performances in tonight's Grammys.

Notice we said that carefully.

Because Grammy nominations are still far too skewed toward a few of the industry's darlings, to the exclusion of needed, but absent, categories.

Why doed Taylor Swift need seven nominations, while Western Music, Western Swing, Old Time String Revival, and a dozen other Folk-Americana genres don't get a single award category?

Anyway, if we are going to criticize what's wrong, we do need to celebrate what's right. And tonight's performances will be the best of a more diverse range than we've seen in a long time.



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