'O Brother', Alison Krauss, Alicia Keys Win In Pre-Telecast Grammys

02/27/2002 8:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Brett Anderson

(2/27/02, 8:30 p.m. ET) -- Bluegrass artists Alison Krauss & Union Station and the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack came away with three awards during the pre-telecast portion of the 44th Annual Grammy Awards. About 90 of the 101 award categories for the 2002 Grammys were presented before the broadcast.

Krauss & Union Station's album New Favorite won best bluegrass album, while the track "The Lucky One" earned both best country performance by a duo or group with vocal and best country song. The soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou? was awarded best compilation soundtrack album for movie or television, and the collection's track "O Death" by Ralph Stanley earned best male country vocal performance. Producer T-Bone Burnett also earned honors for producer of the year, non-classical, for his work on that project as well as on Down From The Mountain and Sam Phillips's Fan Dance. The O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack was also nominated for album of the year, a category presented during the broadcast.

Other multiple honorees in the pre-telecast ceremonies included Alicia Keys, who won two: best female R&B vocal performance For "Fallin'," which was also named best R&B song. Keys was also nominated in four other categories. Two projects related to the smash Broadway musical The Producers also received honors: The DVD/VHS home-video release Recording 'The Producers' - A Musical Romp With Mel Brooks was named best long form music video, while the soundtrack earned a Grammy as best musical show album.

Multiply-nominated rock group U2 also earned its first Grammy of the evening when its All That You Can't Leave Behind was named best rock album. Other key awards handed out before the CBS broadcast went to Bob Dylan's Love And Theft in the best contemporary folk album category; Janet Jackson's song "All For You" in the best dance recording category; Eric Clapton's "Reptile" as best pop instrumental performance; and Sade's Lovers Rock as best pop vocal album. James Taylor's rendition of "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" on Michael Brecker's The Nearness Of You album earned him the Grammy as best male pop vocal performance.

Among other categories, Lucinda Williams and Lenny Kravitz earned best female and male rock vocal performance Grammys, respectively. Coldplay earned best alternative album for Parachutes, Linkin Park's "Crawling" took best hard rock performance, and Tool's "Schism" earned best metal performance. The best R&B vocal performance male went to Usher, while Destiny's Child earned best R&B performance by a group for their anthem "Survivor." OutKast took the best rap performance honor for "Ms. Jackson."

-- Janine Coveney, Los Angeles

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