With this, I wash my hands of the Grammy's completely. No polka prize...man they suck.
And so it goes, Kevin Brabant (or as Tom would say...BITE ME Grammy's) [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Jim O'Connell <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; World News Now Discussion LIst ABC's <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:53 pm Subject: Re: (POLKA) Grammy gone! hey still have Grammy Awards? -----Original Message----- From: Richard de Give <[email protected]> Sent: Jun 4, 2009 10:15 PM To: World News Now Discussion LIst ABC's <[email protected]> Subject: (POLKA) Grammy gone! No more polka album Grammys for Jimmy Sturr By JOHN ROGERS Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s enough to make any serious polka fan shove his plate of ausage aside, fling his lederhosen in the closet and go out and shed a few ears in his beer. The waltz is over for America’s Polka King, Jimmy Sturr, not to mention every ther squeezebox-loving, ompah-dancing fanatic who followed the Grammy Awards ach year just to learn whether Sturr would collect yet another trophy for best olka album of the year. Moving to ensure that its awards show remains what it called “pertinent within he current musical landscape,” the National Academy of Recording Arts and ciences announced Thursday it is eliminating its best polka album category. Although posters to Internet sites catering to polka fans (yes, there are such laces) were outraged, Sturr, who is20hailed by fans the world over as the King f Polka, was doing his best to take the news in stride. “Sure I feel a little bad, but I’m grateful, man,” said the 58-year-old usician who has won the best polka album trophy 18 of the past 24 years. “The Academy did a lot, not only recognizing me but recognizing polka music,” e continued. He added that the recognition gave him a chance to fuse polka with op, country, rock and folk and broaden the music’s audience as he worked with usicians such as Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss and Bela Fleck. Still, he wasn’t completely satisfied with the Academy’s explanation that polka as attracting too few entries in its category. There are millions of polka fans worldwide, Sturr noted, and hundreds of orking polka bands in this country alone. They have taken your grandfather’s usic, he said, and merged it with Tex-Mex, rock, Tejano and other forms to reate a distinctly American sound. As Grammy-nominated player John Gora noted, one of his most popular polka overs is the rock band Genesis’ “Follow You, Follow Me.” “And Phil Collins liked it,” he said of the Genesis frontman. For his part, Sturr said he suspects that if there were 20 people on the ommittee that recommended dropping his category, “19 of them have never been to polka concert. “ Others speculated that Sturr’s amazing record of Grammy wins helped do in the ategory. CI think the fact that it was so dominated by one artist, that kind of killed he incentive for a lot of people to enter,” said Carl Finch, whose ex-Mex-Tejano-Conjunto-Polka fusion band Brave Combo upset Sturr to take the ward in 1999 and 2004. Sturr, meanwhile, says he has no plans to stop entering the Grammys, and will ominate his next album in whatever category he is allowed to. That will be the folk music category, said Bill Freimuth, the Academy’s vice resident for awards. Finch, however, worries that that kind of pigeonholing won’t go down well with olka fans, who he says are already fed up with all the lederhosen and accordion okes they must endure. “It’s not that the polka world’s not used to it,” he said of polka not getting nough recognition. “The polka world expects it. It’s like, ’Yeah, the man did t to us again.”’ > -~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ou received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World ews Now Discussion List" group. o post to this group, send email to [email protected] o unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] or more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en ~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
