Best Traditional Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording/Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
1980 • 22nd Annual Grammy Awards
Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1978 and Aug 30, 1979
1980 Winner is Muddy Waters with "Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live"
Nominees 1980
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Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live
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Ice Pickin' (Album)
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Laugh Your Blues Away (Album)
Uncle Dave Macon
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Living Chicago Blues, Vol. 3 (Album)
Lonnie Brooks Blues Band, Pinetop Perkins, William E. 'Billy' Branch
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Living Chicago Blues, Vol. I (Album)
Jimmy Johnson, Eddie Shaw And The Wolf Gang, Left Hand Frank
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New England Traditional Fiddling (Album)
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New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Festival
Eubie Blake, Charles Mingus, Roosevelt Sykes, Clifton Chenier
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So Many Roads (Album)
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The Chieftains 7 (Album)
Winners
| Year | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Carolina Chocolate Drops | Genuine Negro Jig |
| 2010 | Loudon Wainwright | High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project |
| 2009 | Pete Seeger | At 89 |
| 2008 | Levon Helm | Dirt Farmer |
| 2007 | Bruce Springsteen | We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions |
| 2006 | Tim O'Brien | Fiddler's Green |
| 2005 | Various Artists | Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs Of Stephen Foster |
| 2004 | June Carter Cash | Wildwood Flower |
| 2003 | Doc Watson, David Holt | Legacy |
| 2002 | (Various Artists) | Down From The Mountain |
| 2001 | Dave Alvin | Public Domain - Songs From The Wild Land |
| 2000 | June Carter Cash | Press On |
| 1999 | The Chieftains | Long Journey Home |
| 1998 | Beausoleil | L'amour Ou La Folie |
| 1997 | Pete Seeger | Pete |
| 1996 | Ramblin' Jack Elliott | South Coast |
| 1995 | Bob Dylan | World Gone Wrong |
| 1994 | The Chieftains | The Celtic Harp |
| 1993 | The Chieftains | An Irish Evening - Live At The Grand Opera House, Belfast |
| 1992 | (Various Artists) | The Civil War - Original Soundtrack |
| 1991 | Doc Watson | On Praying Ground |
| 1990 | (Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir) | Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, Vol. II |
| 1989 | (Various Artists) | Folkways -- A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly |
| 1988 | Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Shaka Zulu |
| 1987 | Doc Watson | Riding The Midnight Train |
| 1986 | Rockin' Sidney | My Toot Toot |
| 1985 | Elizabeth Cotten | Elizabeth Cotten Live! |
| 1984 | Clifton Chenier | I'm Here |
| 1983 | Queen Ida | Queen Ida & The Bon Temps Zydeco Band On Tour |
| 1982 | B.B. King | There Must Be A Better World Somewhere |
| 1981 | (Various Artists) | Rare Blues |
| 1980 | Muddy Waters | Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live |
| 1979 | Muddy Waters | I'm Ready |
| 1978 | Muddy Waters | Hard Again |
| 1977 | John Hartford | Mark Twang |
| 1976 | Muddy Waters | The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album |
| 1975 | Merle Watson, Doc Watson | Two Days In November |
| 1974 | Doc Watson | Then And Now |
| 1973 | Muddy Waters | The London Muddy Waters Session |
| 1972 | Muddy Waters | They Call Me Muddy Waters |
| 1971 | T-Bone Walker | Good Feelin' |