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Grammy® Awards, February 2009
Commentary on the Grammy® Award
"Culture Ministers need specific geographical rooting. When they have a sense of what makes a music community tick, they have a standard in front of them. The Cabinet position would need to be one that would celebrate cultural heritage, the music that has shaped America and is forgotten until people like Lance Ledbetter create record labels to compile and annotate music that was created for music's sake and without commercial ambition. Ledbetter, whose Dust-to-Digital label has issued bluegrass, gospel and blues compilations plus a fine set devoted to the string bass, and Art Rosenbaum won the historical album Grammy for Art of Field Recording Volume I, a set that Rosenbaum referred to as 'music of the American vernacular.' Ledbetter and the people he works with are in a boat sailing alongside the one being piloted by this year's top Grammy winners, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett." — Phil Gallo, Variety, February 2009
