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Prince's comeback includes Grammy nominations

BY ROSS RAIHALA and MATT PEIKEN

Pioneer Press


Prince capped off his successful comeback year with five Grammy Award nominations, announced Tuesday morning in Los Angeles.

Fittingly enough, the 46-year-old Minneapolis native performed live at the last Grammy Awards ceremony in February, launching a 2004 campaign that included the platinum album "Musicology," a successful arena tour and his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In addition to a nomination for best R&B album for "Musicology," Prince's "Call My Name" is up for male R&B vocal performance and R&B song. "Cinnamon Girl" picked up a nomination for male pop vocal performance, while the song "Musicology" is up for best traditional R&B vocal performance.

Production duo and former Minnesotans Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis picked up a nomination for producer of the year, an honor they won in 1986. The nomination recognizes the duo's body of work from the year, which includes tracks from Usher and Janet Jackson — both of whom received multiple nominations in other categories.

Artists on the St. Paul record label Red House Records earned two nominations. Rosalie Sorrels and Friends picked up a nomination for best traditional folk album, while Eliza Gilkyson's "Land of Milk and Honey" is up for best contemporary folk album.

Comedian, author, radio host, liberal gadfly and St. Louis Park native Al Franken is up for his second straight Grammy. His finest bits for Air America Radio, collected onto the CD "The O'Franken Factor Factor," have earned a nomination for best comedy album. Franken won a Grammy Award this past February for the spoken-word reading of his best-selling book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."

The Bad Plus, a contemporary jazz trio whose members grew up in the Twin Cities and Wisconsin, are associated with a Grammy nomination for the first time. The group's second disc, "Give," is a candidate for best-engineered album.

Hugh Wolff, former music director of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, conducted another Grammy nominee — the Turnage/Scofield album "Scorched" is up for best-engineered classical album.

The Grammys will be handed out in Los Angeles on Feb. 13 during a ceremony broadcast on CBS.

...thanks much Anxiety...twin cities wants u 2 sign up 4 their e-newsletter & truly i don't need anymore of that!!! its appropriate 4 the Grammy's 2 nominate our Boy with all he's done this year, even tho' i think the Grammy program is a total farce....we will C what stance they take after Prince does what he's gonna do n 2005...look 4 the purple bananna ya'll

i think the grammys are kind of a joke, but unfortunately these kinds of things color a lot of people's tastes, and if prince does well next year - or at least makes another good showing - it's gonna reflect really really well on him. i hope he can use the noms to keep some momentum going from all this year's success....if that's what he wants, that is.

Kinda strange that "Cinnamon Girl" would get the nomination for "vocal performance" instead of "Call My Name" -- but maybe they mean lyrical content within the vocals?

Snap said:

Read it again:
In addition to a nomination for best R&B album for "Musicology," Prince's "Call My Name" is up for male R&B vocal performance and R&B song. "Cinnamon Girl" picked up a nomination for male pop vocal performance, while the song "Musicology" is up for best traditional R&B vocal performance

Snap said:

Question here - does CG get airplay in the US after the initial controversy? How about radio play...

Krid said:

I've never heard that get any airplay. I've only heard "Call My Name" and "Musicology".

go, Prince, go

I'm very glad P has all this nominations. But why is he honoured only in the R&B section? And BTW, the Grammy's are not to be taken very serious as recognition IMO. I think there are too many votes coming from the biz.

I should know better by now, but it STILL trips me out that an album like Musicology gets Grammy nominations...but the Gold Experience and Rainbow Children which I consider much better works (crazy? maybe) are essentially "lost" albums.

I mean, Musicology to me is like Prince doing stretches to get ready to go to work, lol...a warmup... a practice.

ah well... maybe he has a shot in the traditional R&B category (which i didn't even know existed and a manner in which I NEVER thought PRince would ever be labeled LMAO)

proceed..

[b]Wassup fam...I'm not surprised that P was R&B nominated...basically they saying..."heeey boy u play that thang-ga-ma-jig right nice"...hey my original prediction was that P would only get 2 grammy's...but with exec's wanting niggahz(lack better term) to be mad at each other...Usher/Prince...let'em kill each other and at hte same time piss the masses of urban/radio listners at Prince...cause yall know Usher's is all over radio play, but the average "sophisticated audience" as P has called is famz...uhhh yall see where I'm going...they don't want P to be hugely popular amoung black urban youth..so this could be the masters at work(whether u own them or not) once again to further the divided(light skin P and darker Usher) watch very closely fam..to see what happens...I dont trust these phucks in industry...although Musicology is an excellent piece of artwork...Usher/Prince should have the press-conference b4 the show....cause itz gon be some shit(in the community amoung the barbershops/salons) if P wins all them grammies against Usher and the mainstream lyp-singers...

my two-cents..."I think I'm trapped in a glass bubble...and I can't breath"

"ahh-la-la-la-ahh-la-la-la-ooooh..."

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