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Zach Top Brings Home His First-Career Grammy Award, Wins ‘Best Traditional Country Album’
Cementing his legacy.
Oftentimes considered the “savior” of traditional country music, Zach Top seems to be everywhere these days. Riding the highs of his debut album last year and his highly-successful sophomore effort this year, Ain’t In It For My Health, the Washington native has simply flown through the ranks in country music over the past two years. Whether it’s his ACM win for New Male Artist this past April, his five CMA nominations and a win for Best New Artist this November, his high praise from fellow artists such as Dierks Bentley or his continued domination on social media, Top has, without a doubt, become the genre’s new “it” artist.
Today, however, he’s taken home his biggest award to date with AIn’t In It For My Health winning ‘Best Traditional Country Album’ at the 68th Grammy Awards, becoming the first-ever winner of the new award.
In case you haven’t been keeping up with the new change to the Grammys, back in June, the Recording Academy announced that for the first time ever, they will be adding a fifth and final country category in the form of Best Traditional Country Album. Despite many reports claiming that the Recording Academy intentionally added the Traditional Country category in direct response to the controversy of Beyoncé’s win this past February, Harvey Mason Jr., the Recording Academy CEO, noted that many prominent members of the alternative country community had been pushing for the creation of the category for years.
“The community of people that are making country music in all different subgenres came to us with a proposal and said we would like to have more variety in how our music is honored. They said, we think we need more space for our music to be celebrated and honored.”
What resulted was nothing short of a star-studded group of nominees featuring Charley Crockett’s Dollar A Day, Margo Price’s Hard Headed Woman, Zach Top’s Ain’t In It For My Health, Lukas’ American Romance and Willie’s, Oh What A Beautiful World. However, Top ultimately brought home the win, marking his first-career Grammy award.
Accepting his Grammy, Top would joke that he almost didn’t make it on stage in time since he was sitting all the way in the back of the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Launching into his acceptance speech, the “I Never Lie” singer would thank everyone from God and his family to his girlfriend, Amelia, and producer, Carson Chamberlain.
“This is insane. I feel like [when] I watched the Grammys as a little kid, [they] looked like superheroes up on TV. To be here and be a little part of the whole thing is insane. I want to thank the Lord and Savior and family, Carson Chamberlain, my manager, Mike Doyle, who’s here with me, my girlfriend, Amelia, my label, everybody on my team, my road band.”
Wrapping up his short speech, Top would once again express just how insane the award felt to him before thanking the Academy for the honor.
“This is absolutely insane. I’m so thankful. Thanks for letting me be here. This is amazing.”
Other winners in the country categories announced so far are Tyler Childers bringing home Best Country Song for “Bitin’ List,” Chris Stapleton winning Best Country Solo Performance for “Bad As I Used to Be” and Shaboozey and Jelly Roll securing their first-ever Grammys for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Amen.”
Best Contemporary Country Album, which features the likes of Childers, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Jelly Roll and Kelsea Ballerini, will air later today during the televised show.The post Zach Top Brings Home His First-Career Grammy Award, Wins ‘Best Traditional Country Album’ first appeared on Whiskey Riff.
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