Best Bluegrass Album
2026 • 68th Annual Grammy Awards
Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2024 and Aug 30, 2025
2026 Winner is Billy Strings with "Highway Prayers"
Nominees 2026
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Highway Prayers
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Carter & Cleveland
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A Tip Toe High Wire
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Arcadia
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Outrun
Winners
| Year | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Billy Strings | Highway Prayers |
| 2025 | Billy Strings | Live Vol. 1 |
| 2024 | Molly Tuttle | City Of Gold |
| 2023 | Molly Tuttle, Golden Highway | Crooked Tree |
| 2022 | Béla Fleck | My Bluegrass Heart |
| 2021 | Billy Strings | Home |
| 2020 | Michael Cleveland | Tall Fiddler |
| 2019 | The Travelin' McCourys | The Travelin' McCourys |
| 2018 | Rhonda Vincent | All The Rage - In Concert Volume One [Live] |
| 2018 | The Infamous Stringdusters | Laws Of Gravity |
| 2017 | Mark O'Connor | Coming Home |
| 2016 | SteelDrivers | The Muscle Shoals Recordings |
| 2015 | The Earls Of Leicester | The Earls Of Leicester |
| 2014 | Del McCoury | The Streets Of Baltimore |
| 2013 | Mike Guggino, Charles Humphrey, Woody Platt, Nicky Sanders, Graham Sharp | Nobody Knows You |
| 2012 | Alison Krauss | Paper Airplane |
| 2011 | Patty Loveless | Mountain Soul II |
| 2010 | Steve Martin | The Crow: New Songs For The Five-String Banjo |
| 2009 | Ricky Skaggs | Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947 |
| 2008 | Jim Lauderdale | The Bluegrass Diaries |
| 2007 | Ricky Skaggs | Instrumentals |
| 2006 | Del McCoury | The Company We Keep |
| 2005 | Ricky Skaggs | Brand New Strings |
| 2004 | Alison Krauss | Live |
| 2003 | Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley, Clinch Mountain Boys | Lost In The Lonesome Pines |
| 2002 | Alison Krauss | New Favorite |
| 2001 | Dolly Parton | The Grass Is Blue |
| 2000 | Ricky Skaggs | Ancient Tones |
| 1999 | Ricky Skaggs | Bluegrass Rules! |
| 1998 | Alison Krauss | So Long So Wrong |
| 1997 | (Various Artists) | True Life Blues - The Songs Of Bill Monroe |
| 1996 | Nashville Bluegrass Band | Unleashed |
| 1995 | (Various Artists) | The Great Dobro Sessions |
| 1994 | Nashville Bluegrass Band | Waitin' For The Hard Times To Go |
| 1993 | Alison Krauss | Every Time You Say Goodbye |
| 1992 | Carl Jackson, John Starling | Spring Training |
| 1991 | Alison Krauss | I've Got That Old Feeling |
| 1990 | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Bruce Hornsby | The Valley Road |
| 1989 | Bill Monroe | Southern Flavor |