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Charley Crockett\/ Evan Felker of the Turnpike Troubadours<\/p>\nCharley Crockett\/ Evan Felker of the Turnpike Troubadours<\/p>\n
Well, it\u2019s unlikely there\u2019s a provision in the Record Academy\u2019s bylaws that allows Grammy nominations to be swapped like a \u201cGet Out Jail Free\u201d card or Marvin Gardens property in Monopoly to pay your debt from landing on Boardwalk. But this does pose an interest wrinkle to this year\u2019s awards. <\/p>\n
When the Grammy Awards announced the nominees for the inaugural Best Traditional Country Album<\/a> category on November 7th and The Price of Admission by the Turnpike Troubadours was not among them, many traditional country fans cried foul. It felt like the selection should be a consensus pick<\/a> for a nomination, if not the front runner to win the trophy. <\/p>\n The actual nominees were Hard Headed Woman\u00a0\u2013 Margo Price, Ain\u2019t In It For My Health\u00a0\u2013 Zach Top, American Romance\u00a0\u2013 Lukas Nelson, Oh What A Beautiful World\u00a0\u2013 Willie Nelson, and Dollar A Day\u00a0\u2013 Charley Crockett. That\u2019s not a bad field all things considered, but the biggest quibble the public took was far and away the Turnpike Troubadours exclusion. <\/p>\n Well lo and behold, on Sunday afternoon (11-16), Charley Crockett took to social media to offer up his Grammy nomination to the Turnpike Troubadours. <\/p>\n \u201cVolunteering to give up my nomination with the Recording Academy to the Turnpike Troubadours who not only earned the right with Price Of Admission, but for which without Evan Felker, I might not have ever even shown up on the map to be nominated in the first place,\u201d Crockett said<\/a>. \u201cAnd besides, Evan Felker\u2019s the best damn songwriter of all of us. See, Texas and Oklahoma can get along.\u201d<\/p>\n Along with this caption, Charley Crockett also included his own quote, \u201cI was standing out at Gruene Hall handing out CDs on a street corner \u2019cause I couldn\u2019t get into the show. Handed a guy a CD, his name was Evan Felker. I didn\u2019t know who he was at the time, but he was the frontman for the Turnpike Troubadours. He took it home and listened to it with his then girlfriend, now wife. Lo and behold, his agent Jon Folk called me up and started booking me.\u201d <\/p>\n Can Charley Crockett really hand off his nomination? Of course not. The situation feels somewhat reminiscent of Dolly Parton being nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before withdrawing her name<\/a> from consideration\u2014and being inducted anyway because the ballot had already been sent out, and folks voted for her anyway. <\/p>\n But it\u2019s a classy move by Charley, and perhaps a vote for Charley can be seen as a vote for Turnpike as well, especially since as he rightly points out, it was Evan Felker and the Troubadours who seeded his career. Crockett very much got his legs underneath him opening shows for the Turnpike Troubadours. That\u2019s one of the many reason that it felt like a tragedy the band was not nominated for a career effort. <\/p>\n UPDATE: Evan Felker has since responded to Crockett, \u201cAny good thing in your world feels like a win for us my friend. Thanks for the kind words but y\u2019all earned every bit of this. It didn\u2019t happen overnight and nobody did it for you \u2026 the only thing I ask I\u2019ll ask is that you enjoy it. Love and Luck. EF.\u201d<\/p>\n Voting for the Grammy Awards is open from December 12th through January 5th. The 2026 Grammy Awards are on February 1st.<\/p>\n