- Dixie Chicks - Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ("Not Ready to Make Nice"), Album of the Year and Best Country Album (Taking the Long Way)
- KT Tunstall - Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("Black Horse and the Cherry Tree")
- Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Best Pop Instrumental Performance ("Subterfuge")
- Evlis Costello & Allen Toussaint - Best Pop Vocal Album (The River in Reverse)
- Bob Dylan - Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song ("Someday Baby")
- Neil Young - Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song ("Looking For a Leader"), Best Rock Album (Living With War)
- The Duhks - Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal ("Heaven's My Home")
- Solomon Burke & Dolly Parton - Best Country Collaboration With Vocals ("Tomorrow is Forever")
- Rhonda Vincent & Bobby Osborne - Best Country Collaboration With Vocals ("Midnight Angel")
- Chris Thile - Best Country Instrumental Performance ("The Eleventh Reel")
- Willie Nelson - Best Country Album (You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker)
- Del McCoury Band - Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album (The Promised Land)
- Ani Difranco - Best Recording Package (Reprieve w/ Brian Gunert, art directors)
Best Bluegrass Album Nominees
- The Grascals - Long List of Heartaches
- Jim Lauderdale - Bluegrass | Buy Now
- Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder - Instrumentals | Buy Now
- Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives - Live at the Ryman
- Rhonda Vincent - All-American Bluegrass Girl
Best Traditional Folk Album
- Ramblin Jack Elliot - I Stand Alone
- Odetta - Gonna Let It Shine | Buy Now
- Linda Ronstadt & Anne Savoy - Adieu False Heart | Buy Now
- Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
- Ralph Stanley - A Distant Land to Roam | Buy Now
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
- Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 | Buy Now
- Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
- Guy Clark - Workbench Songs | Buy Now
- Bob Dylan - Modern Times | Buy Now
- Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning | Buy Now
