Sugar Hill Records - Label-related Awards

Label-related Awards

Sugar Hill artists have won a series of Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album, including:

• 1992, Carl Jackson and John Starling for Spring Training
• 1994, The Nashville Bluegrass Band for Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go
• 1995, Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor (producers) for The Great Dobro Sessions
• 1996, The Nashville Bluegrass Band again for Unleashed
• 1997, Todd Phillips (producer) for True Life Blues - The Songs of Bill Monroe
• 2001, Dolly Parton, Steve Buckingham (producer) and Gary Paczosa (engineer/mixer) for The Grass Is Blue, Parton's first release on the label
• 2006, The Del McCoury Band for The Company We Keep

The label's Grammy-winning artists in other categories include:

• 2002, Parton's song "Shine" from the album Little Sparrow won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
• 2003, Alison Krauss (producer), Gary Paczosa (engineer/mixer) and Nickel Creek won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for This Side
• 2006, Tim O'Brien's Fiddler's Green album (2005) won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album
• 2007, Bryan Sutton won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for his duet with Doc Watson on "Whiskey Before Breakfast", from Sutton's 2006 album Not Too Far From the Tree
• 2010, Marty Stuart won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for his song "Hummingbyrd", from his album Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions

In 2006, Sugar Hill executive Barry Poss won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.