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Shore Fire Artists Earn Forty-Three 2023 Grammy Nominations, Including Song Of The Year For Bonnie Raitt And Best New Artist For Samara Joy

Several Artists Earn Multiple Nominations Including Maverick City Music (5), Bonnie Raitt (4), PJ Morton (3), Aoife O’Donovan (3), Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (3)

 

Shore Fire Media is thrilled to congratulate the projects and clients we have represented over the past GRAMMY year who collectively earned 43 nominations for the 2023 GRAMMY Awards. This year’s nomination highlights include Song Of The Year for Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That,” Best New Artist for Samara Joy, and no fewer than 16 nominations in Best Album categories across a broad range of genres. Several artists received multiple nominations, including:

—Maverick City Music, who earned five nominations across an array of Gospel and Contemporary Christian categories. This follows their win at the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album. 

—Bonnie Raitt, whose four nominations bring her to a total of 30 nominations to go along with 10 GRAMMY wins throughout her career. 

—PJ Morton, whose three nominations across a variety of R&B and Gospel categories mark his 6th consecutive year as a nominee. This brings him to 19 total career-wide nominations to go along with his four career wins. 

—Aoife O’Donovan, who received three nominations in the Best Folk Album, Best American Roots Performance, and Best American Roots Song categories. O’Donovan previously won a GRAMMY at the 62nd Annual Awards for her group I’m With Her’s “Call My Name,” which won for Best American Roots Song. 

—Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, who received three nominations for their new album Raise The Roof. Their previous release, 2007’s Raising Sand, won six GRAMMYs including Album Of The Year and Record Of The Year. These nominations mark 21 career-wide nominations for Plant and 45 for Krauss. 

—Bonobo, who earned two nominations for Best Dance / Electronic Recording and Best Dance / Electronic Music Album, bringing him to seven total nominations for his career. 

—Terri Lyne Carrington, who released two albums this year (New Standards, Vol. 1 and Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival) that each garnered nominations for Best Improvised Jazz Solo and Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Carrington is a three-time GRAMMY winner and has now earned seven total nominations. 

—Jacob Collier, who earned two nominations, one for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocal as well as another for his involvement in Coldplay’s Album Of The Year nominee Music Of The Spheres. Collier is a five-time winner and is now an 11-time nominee. 

—Samara Joy, the 23 year-old artist who this year earned her first two nominations for Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album on the back of her breakthrough album Linger Awhile.  

—Angélique Kidjo, whose two nominations take her to 14 career nominations to go along with five GRAMMY wins. 

—Tye Tribbett, who earned two nominations for Best Gospel Performance / Song and Best Gospel Album. This takes him to 12 total career nominations to go along with two GRAMMY wins. 

 

Shore Fire also sends congratulations to Big Yellow Dog Music, whose writer Dave Pittinger is nominated for Song Of The Year as a co-writer of GAYLE'S “abcdefu.”

The 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast from Los Angeles’s Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, February 5th at 8PM ET / 5PM PT on CBS. It will be simultaneously streamed on Paramount+. 

Shore Fire Media (a division of Dolphin Entertainment) represents artists and culture makers at the top of their fields. The company's dedicated teams in New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville wield extensive, varied expertise to strategically amplify narratives and shape reputations for career-advancing effect. Shore Fire Media represents top recording artists in multiple genres, songwriters, music producers, record labels, music industry businesses, venues, trade organizations, authors, comedians, social media personalities, and cultural institutions.

 

 

Shore Fire Media congratulates the clients and projects represented during the GRAMMY year on the following nominations:

 

Song Of The Year

Bonnie Raitt — “Just Like That”

 

Best New Artist

Samara Joy

 

Best Dance / Electronic Recording

Bonobo — ”Rosewood”

 

Best Dance / Electronic Music Album

Bonobo — Fragments (Ninja Tune)

ODESZA — The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective / Ninja Tune)

 

Best Rock Album

Elvis Costello & The Imposters — The Boy Named If (EMI / Capitol)

 

Best R&B Song

PJ Morton — “Please Don’t Walk Away”

 

Best Progressive R&B Album

Cory Henry — Operation Funk (Henry House Entertainment)

 

Best R&B Album

PJ Morton — “Watch the Sun”

 

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss — “Going Where The Lonely Go”

 

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Ambrose Akinmusire — “Rounds (Live)”

Wayne Shorter & Leo Genovese — “Endangered Species”

 

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Samara Joy — Linger Awhile (Verve Records)

 

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton & Matthew Stevens — New Standards, Vol. 1 (Candid Records)

Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding — Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival (Candid Records)

 

Best Gospel Performance/Song

Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin — “Kingdom”

PJ Morton Featuring Zacardi Cortez, Gene Moore, Samoht, Tim Rogers & Darrel Walls — “The Better Benediction”

Tye Tribbett — “Get Up”

 

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

Crowder & Dante Bowe Featuring Maverick City Music — “God Really Loves Us (Radio Version)”

Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin — “Fear Is Not My Future”

 

Best Gospel Album

Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin — Kingdom Book One (Deluxe) (Tribl Records / Fo Yo Soul Entertainment / RCA Inspiration)

Tye Tribbett — All Things New (Motown Gospel)

Ricky Dillard — “Breakthrough: The Exodus (Live)”


Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Maverick City Music — Breathe (Tribl Records)

 

Best American Roots Performance

Aoife O’Donovan & Allison Russell — “Prodigal Daughter”

Fantastic Negrito — “Oh Betty”

 

Best Americana Performance

Blind Boys of Alabama Featuring Black Violin — “The Message”

Bonnie Raitt — “Made Up Mind”

 

Best American Roots Song

Aoife O’Donovan & Allison Russell — “Prodigal Daughter”

Bonnie Raitt — “Just Like That”

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss — “High and Lonesome”

 

Best Americana Album

Bonnie Raitt — Just Like That… (Redwing Records)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss — Raise the Roof (Rounder Records / Concord Records)

 

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Ben Harper — Bloodline Maintenance (Chrysalis Records)

 

Best Folk Album

Aoife O’Donovan — Age of Apathy (Yep Roc Records)

Judy Collins — Spellbound (Cleopatra Records)

 

Best Global Music Album

Angélique Kidjo & Ibrahim Maalouf — Queen of Sheba (Mister Ibé)

 

Best Comedy Album

Jim Gaffigan — Comedy Monster

 

Best Song Written For Visual Media

Jessy Wilson Featuring Angélique Kidjo - Keep Rising (The Woman King)

 

Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocal

Jacob Collier Featuring Lizzy McAlpine & John Mayer - “Never Gonna Be Alone”

 

Best Historical Album

Blondie — Against the Odds: 1974 - 1982 (UMe / The Numero Group)

 

Best Immersive Audio Album

“Picturing the Invisible — Focus 1,” Jim Anderson, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg & Ulrike Schwarz, immersive mastering engineers; Jane Ira Bloom and Ulrike Schwarz, immersive producers (Jane Ira Bloom)

 

Best Orchestral Performance

Wild Up & Christopher Rountree — “Stay On It”