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• Edward Albee og Harold Clurman for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Original rollebesetning
• Harold Arlen for The Barbra Streisand Album - Barbra Streisand
• Sidney Bock for an Evening of Elizabethan Music - Julian Bream Consort
• Bob Ballard for The Amazing Amanda Ambrose - Amanda Ambrose
• Benjamin A. Botkin, Sylvester Vigilante, Harold Preece og James Horan for The Badmen - Pete Seeger og andre

• Neville Cardus for Mahler: Symphony No. 5
• Berg : Wozzeck- utdrag med en solo av Phyllis Curtin - Erich Leinsdorf (dirigent) og Boston Symphony
• Alexander Cohen for Beyond the Fringe '64 - original rollebesetning
• Stan Getz , João Gilberto og Gene Leess for Getz / Gilberto - Stan Getz og João Gilberto
• Rory Guy for The Definitive Piaf - Édith Piaf
• George Sponholtz for The Young Chevalier - Maurice Chevalier
• Jack Tracy for Quincy Jones utforsker musikken til Henry Mancini - Quincy Jones

• Dom Cerulli for The Voice of the Uncommon Man - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
• Stanley Dance for Grand Terrace Band - Earl Hines
• Charles Lamb for Father and Son - Hank Williams og Hank Williams Jr.
• Gustav Rudolf Sellner og Otto Gerdes for Berg: Wozzeck - Karl Böhm (dirigent) og orkester for Deutsche Oper Berlin

• Harvey Cowen for Ben Colder Strikes Again - Ben Colder
• Stanley Dance og Ralph J. Gleason for The Ellington Era, Volume 2 - Duke Ellington
• Fred W. Friendly for Edward R. Murrow : A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I - The War Years
• Nelson Lyon for doktor Zhivago - Maurice Jarre

• Stan Cornyn for Francis Albert Sinatra og Antonio Carlos Jobim - Frank Sinatra og Antonio Carlos Jobim
• Stanley Dance for The Far East Suite - Duke Ellington
• Rory Guy for ekstra spesiell! - Peggy Lee
• Rod McKuen for The Earth - Rod McKuen med musikk av Anita Kerr
• Richard Oliver for lister! - Gary Lewis og Playboys

• Stan Cornyn for Francis A. og Edward K. - Frank Sinatra og Duke Ellington
• Miles Kreuger for Ethel Waters on Stage and Screen - Ethel Waters
• Richard Oliver for Anthology of Indian Music, Volume 1 - Ravi Shankar , Ali Akbar Kahn og Sundaram Balachander
• Pete Seeger for Pete Seegers største treff - Pete Seeger

• Joan Baez for Davids album - Joan Baez
• John Dodds II for Chicago Mess Around - Johnny Dodds
• John Hartford for John Hartford - John Hartford
• Rex Reed for At Town Hall - Mabel Mercer og Bobby Short

• Billy Edd Wheeler for As I See It - Jack Moran
• Ralph J. Gleason for Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
• Rod McKuen for Hold Back the World - Alexander's Greyhound Bass, Anthony d'Oberoff for I Do not Play No Rock and Roll - Mississippi Fred McDowell
• Rex Reed for Judy. London. 1969 - Judy Garland
• James Goodfriend for Sixteen All Time Greatest Hits - Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys
• Arthur Knight for De skyter hester, ikke sant? - John Green Orchestra

• Colman Andrews for Miles Davis - Miles Davis
• Don Demichael for The Genius of Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong
• Nat Hentoff for Louis Armstrong: 4. juli 1900 - 6. juli 1971 - Louis Armstrong
• James Lyons for Music of Varese - Konstantin Simonovitch (dirigent) med Paris Instrumental Ensemble
• Joshua Rifkin for Piano Rags av Scott Joplin - Rifkin
• George T. Simon for Dette er Benny Goodman - Benny Goodman
• Tom West for Honky Tonkin 'med Charlie Walker - Charlie Walker

• Michael Brooks for Super Chief - Count Basie
• Albert Goldman for Lenny Bruce: Carnegie Hall - Lenny Bruce
• Charles Mingus for Let My Children Hear Music - Charles Mingus
• Dan Morgenstern for Bunny Berigan, His Trumpet and His Orchestra, Volume 1 - Bunny Berigan

• David Cairns for Berlioz : Benvenuto Cellini - Colin Davis (dirigent) med London Symphony Orchestra
• Tom Eastwood for Julian og John - Julian Bream og John Williams
• Karolynne Gee for Michael Rabin: In Memoriam - Michael Rabin
• HC Robbins Landon for Haydn: Symphonies (Complete), bind 4 og 5 - Antal Doráti (dirigent) med Philharmonia Hungarica
• Dingverell Sitwell for John Ogdon Plays Alkan - John Ogdon
• Ursula Von Rauchhaupt for strykekvartetter fra New Viennesse School - La Salle Quartet

• Stan Cornyn for Ol 'Blue Eyes Is Back - Frank Sinatra
• Chet Flippo for Lonesome, On'ry and Mean - Waylon Jennings
• William Ivey for This is Jimmie Rodgers - Jimmie Rodgers
• Lionel Newman for Remember Marilyn - Marilyn Monroe

• Misha Donat for Berio: Recital 1 ("For Cathy") - Luciano Berio (dirigent) med London Sinfonietta og Cathy Berberian som solist
• Tom Eastwood for The Woods So Wild - Julian Bream
• Irving Kolodin for Dvorák : Piano Quartet in E flat major op. 87 - Guarneri Quartet with the solist Arthur Rubinstein
• Harvey Phillips for Bizet : Carmen - Leonard Bernstein (dirigent) med Metropolitan Opera Orchestra og solistene Marilyn Horne , James McCracken , Andriana Maliponte og Tom Krause
• Alan Rich for Rachmaninov: Pianokonsert nr. 2 i c-moll - Eugene Ormandy (dirigent) med Philadelphia Orchestra og solisten Arthur Rubinstein
• HC Robbins Landon for Haydn : Symfoni nr. 36 og symfoni nr. 48 - Antal Doráti (dirigent) med Philharmonia Hungarica
• HC Robbins Landon for Haydn : Symphony No. 20 in C major and Symphony No. 35 in B flat major - Antal Doráti (conductor) with the Philharmonia Hungarica
• Erik Smith for Bach: Brandenburg-konserter - Neville Marriner (dirigent) med Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Clair Van Ausdall for Debussy: La mer / Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune
• Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, suite nr. 2 - Eugene Ormandy (dirigent) med Philadelphia Orchestra

• Rudy Behlmer i 50 år med filmmusikk - forskjellige artister
• Ralph J. Gleason for The Pianist - Duke Ellington
• JR Young for The World is Still Waiting for the Sunrise - Les Paul og Mary Ford

• David Cairns for Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust - Colin Davis (dirigent) og London Symphony Orchestra
• Deryck Cooke for Mahler: Symphony No. 10 - Wyn Morris (dirigent) og New Philharmonic Orchestra
• Donald Garvelmann for Scriabin : Piano Music (Complete), Volume 2 - diverse artister
• George Jellinek for Humperdinck: Hansel og Gretel - Kurt Eichhorn (dirigent) og det bayerske radioorkesteret med solistene Anna Moffo og Helen Donath
• Irving Kolodin for Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani - James Levine (dirigent) og New Philharmonia Orchestra
• Christopher Palmer for Herrmann : Citizen Kane - Charles Gerhardt (dirigent) og National Philharmonic Orchestra
• Wolfram Schwinger for Weber: Der Freischütz - Erich Kleiber (dirigent)
• Erik Smith for Mozart: Don Giovanni - Colin Davis (dirigent) og Royal Opera House Choir and Orchestra
• Clair W. Van Ausdall for Rachmaninov : The Bells and 3 Russian Songs - Eugene Ormandy (dirigent) og Temple University Choir

• Ralph J. Gleason for The Real Lenny Bruce - Lenny Bruce
• Benny Green for The Tatum Solo Masterpieces - Art Tatum
• Tom T. Hall for Greatest Hits, Volume 2 - Tom T. Hall
• George T. Simon for Glenn Miller: A Legendary Performer - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra

• Rudi Blesh for Joplin : The Complete Works - Dick Hyman
• László Eősze for Kodály : Orchestral Works - Antal Doráti (dirigent) og Philharmonia Hungarica
• Rory Guy og Itzhak Perlman for Joplin : The Easy Winners med solistene Itzhak Perlman og André Previn
• Rory Guy for Gershwin : Gershwin's Wonderful med solistene Ralph Grierson og Artie Kane
• James H. Moore for Gagliano : La Dafne - Paul Vorwerk (dirigent) med Musica Pacifica
• Christopher Palmer for Korngold : Die Tote Stadt - Erich Leinsdorf (dirigent) og Münchner Rundfunkorchester med solistene René Kollo , Carol Neblett, Hermann Prey og Benjamin Luxon
• Judith Robison for The English Harpsichord av William Byrd , Giles Farnaby og andre - solist Igor Kipnis
• HC Robbins Landon for Haydn : Symphonies 93-104 - Antal Doráti (dirigent) og Philharmonia Hungarica

• George R. Marek for Beethoven : The Five Piano Concertos - Daniel Barenboim (dirigent) og London Philharmonic Orchestra med solisten Arthur Rubinstein
• Douglas B. Green for The Blue Sky Boys - The Blue Sky Boys
• Francis Robinson for Caruso: A Legendary Performer - Enrico Caruso
• Mort Goode for The Complete Tommy Dorsey, Volume 1 - 1935 - Tommy Dorsey

• Chris Albertson for Stormy Blues - Billie Holiday
• Michael Brooks for The Lester Young Story, bind 1 - Lester Young
• George T. Simon for Guy Lombardo: A Legendary Performer - Guy Lombardo
• Patrick Snyder for Flight Log - Jefferson Airplane

• Irving Kolodin og William Bender for Beethoven: Symphonies (9) - Herbert von Karajan (dirigent) og Berlin Philharmonic
• Leonard Feather for Ellington i Carnegie Hall - 1943 - Duke Ellington
• Alan Lomax for Georgia Sea Island Songs - forskjellige artister
• Dan Morgenstern for The Individualism of Pee Wee Russell - Pee Wee Russell
• Phil David Baker og RD Darell for Works of Carpenter / Gilbert / Adolph Weiss / Powell - Los Angeles Philharmonic

• Melvin Maddocks for Giants of Jazz: Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday
• Dan Morgenstern og Stanley Dance for Giants of Jazz: Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington
• Dick Schory for The Magical Music of Walt Disney - forskjellige artister
• Richard M. Sudhalter for Hoagy Carmichael: A Legendary Performer and Composer - Hoagy Carmichael

• David Evans og Bruce Bastin for Atlanta Blues: 1933 - Blind Willie McTell , Curley Weaver og Buddy Moss
• Lauren Lortie for Elvis Aron Presley - Elvis Presley
• John McDonough og Richard M. Sudhalter for Giants of Jazz: Lester Young - Lester Young
• Dan Morgenstern for Chicago Concert 1956 - Louis Armstrong

• CP Crumpacker for The Mario Lanza Collection - Mario Lanza
• John McDonough for Giants of Jazz: Pee Wee Russell - Pee Wee Russell
• David Thompson og Philip W. Payne for Giants of Jazz: Fats Waller - Fats Waller
• Dick Wellstood, Willa Rouder og Frank Kappler for Giants of Jazz: James P. Johnson - James P. Johnson

• Gary Giddins for Duke Ellington 1941 - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
• Thornton Hördert for et eksperiment i moderne musikk: Paul Whiteman i Aeolian Hall - Paul Whiteman
• William Ivey for The Greatest Country Music Recordings of All Time - forskjellige artister
• William Ivey og Bob Pinson i 60 år med countrymusikk - forskjellige artister
• Robert Palmer for Young Blood - The Coasters

• Lester Bangs for The Fugs Greatest Hits, Volume 1 - The Fugs
• Peter Guralnick for The Okeh Sessions - Big Maybelle
• Richard B. Hadlock for Giants of Jazz: Joe Sullivan - Joe Sullivan
• John McDonough for Seven Come Eleven - Benny Goodman

• Glenn Hinson for Virginia Traditions Work Songs - forskjellige artister
• Grover Sales for Amadeus (Original Soundtrack) - Neville Marriner (Dirigent) og Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• James Sundquist for An Anthology of Sacred Carols for Classical Guitar - James Sundquist
• Z Factor og Lorene Lortie for A Golden Celebration - Elvis Presley

• Lenny Kaye for Bleecker og McDougal: The Folk Scene of the 1960s - diverse artister
• Lenny Kaye for Crossroads: White Blues på 1960-tallet - forskjellige artister
• James R. Morris, JR Taylor og Dwight Blocker Bowers for amerikansk populær sang - forskjellige artister
• Neil Tesser for The Girl from Ipanema: The Bossa Nova Years - Stan Getz

• Cameron Crowe for biograf - Bob Dylan
• Richard Freed og Peter Eliot Stone for Virtuosi (Smithsonian Productions) - forskjellige artister
• David Hall, John Stratton, Tom Owen, Robert Tuggle og David Hamilton for The Mapleson Cylinders - Metropolitan Opera
• Lenny Kaye for Elektrock: The Sixties - forskjellige artister

• Peter Guralnick for The Complete Sun Sessions - Elvis Presley
• Nolan Porterfield for Jimmie Rodgers på plate: America's Blue Yodeler - Jimmie Rodgers
• Mark Tucker for Singers and Soloists of the Swing Bands - forskjellige artister
• Charles K. Wolfe for The Bristol Sessions - forskjellige artister

• John Edward Hasse for The Classic Hoagy Carmichael - Hoagy Carmichael
• Mike Kreuger for Show Boat - Frederica von Stade , Jerry Hadley , Teresa Stratas , Nancy Culp og Lillian Gish med John McGlinn (dirigent) og London Sinfonietta
• Dan Morgenstern for The Complete Commodore Jazz Recordings, Volume 1 - diverse artister
• Vaughn Webb for Virginia Tradition: Southwest Virginia Blues - Various Artists

• Dwight Blocker Bowers for American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars - Various Artists
• Gene Lees for The Complete Fantasy Recordings - Bill Evans
• Howard Wright Marshall, Amy E. Skillman og Charles Walden for Now That's a Good Tune - Masters of Traditional Missouri Fiddling
• Martin Williams , Dick Katz og Francis Davis for jazzpiano 1898–1964 - forskjellige artister

• Mary Katherine Aldin og Robert Palmer for Muddy Waters: The Chess Box - Muddy Waters
• Gary Giddons for Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings - Art Pepper
• Robert Palmer for Bo Diddley: The Chess Box - Bo Diddley
• David Perry for Jack Kerouac Collection - Jack Kerouac

• John Bauldie for The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991) 3 - Bob Dylan
• Rob Bowman for The Complete Stax / Volt Singles 1959–1968 - forskjellige artister
• Colin Escott for The Original Singles Collection. . . Pluss - Hank Williams
• Robert Palmer for The Birth of Soul - Ray Charles

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• Will Friedwald og Dick Katz for The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio - Nat King Cole Trio
• Peter Guralnick for The King of Rock 'n' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters - Elvis Presley
• Pete Welding og Lawrence Cohn for Roots n 'Blues the Retrospective (1925-1950) - forskjellige artister
• Robert Kimball og Richard Sudhalter for You're the Top: Cole Porter på 1930-tallet - forskjellige artister

• Colin Escott for King of the Blues - BB King
• Orrin Keepnews og Jim Ferguson for The Complete Riverside Recordings - Wes Montgomery
• Peter Guralnick for From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60s Masters - Elvis Presley
• Alan Lomax og Robert Palmer for Songs of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta Recorded in the Field av Alan Lomax - forskjellige artister

• Yves Beauvais, Don Cherry , Ornette Coleman og Robert Palmer for Beauty Is A Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings - Ornette Coleman
• Francis Pandras, Celia Powell, Peter Pullman, Sonny Rollins og Horace Silver for The Complete Bud Powell on Verve - Bud Powell
• Carol Cooper, Steven Greenberg og Jaime Wolf for Otis! The Definitive - Otis Redding
• Peter Guralnick for Sam Cookes SAR Records Story 1959-1965 - forskjellige artister

• Geoffrey Mark Fidelman og James Gavin for Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings - Ella Fitzgerald
• John Fricke for 25-årsjubileum: Retrospektiv - Judy Garland
• Dan Morgenstern for I'll Be Seeing You: A Tribute to Carmen McRae - Carmen McRae
• Dan Morgenstern for Let's Do It: Best of the Verve Years - Louis Armstrong

• Will Friedwald , Dave Kapp og Mel Tormé for The Mel Tormé Collection: 1944 - 1985 - Mel Tormé
• Lawrence Hoffman for Mean Old World: The Blues fra 1940 til 1994 - forskjellige artister
• Will Friedwald for The Complete Capitol Singles Collection - Frank Sinatra
• Chris Albertson for The Complete Recordings, Vol. 5 - Bessie Smith

• Robert Gordon for Anthology - Al Green
• Ben Edmonds, Mark Kemp, Meegan Lee Ochs og Michael Ventura for Farewells & Fantasies - Phil Ochs
• Dave Alvin , James Austin, Bill Dahl, Ahmet Ertegün , David Ritz, Billy Vera og Jerry Wexler for Ray Charles Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection - Ray Charles
• Ian Whitcomb for Titanic: Music As Heard on the Fateful Voyage - forskjellige artister

• Joel Dorn , Tom Dowd , Andrew Homzy, Patrick Milligan, Sue Mingus, Tina Marisa Rocchio og Stefano Zenni for Passions of a Man: The Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956–1961 - Charles Mingus
• Daniel Cooper og Colin Escott for The Complete Hank Williams - Hank Williams
• Bill Ivey, Bill C. Malone, Claudia Perry, John W. Rumble og Ron Wynn for From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music - diverse artister
• Sedgwick Clark, Barbara Haws, Kurt Masur , Alan Rich, Robert Sherman og Steven Smolian for The Historic Broadcasts 1923 til 1987 - New York Philharmonic

• Rick Bragg for Live at The Grand Ole Opry - Hank Williams (Mercury Nashville)
• Rob Bowman for The Last Soul Company - forskjellige artister (Malaco)
• Daniel Cooper for The Complete Country & Western Recordings (1959–1986) - Ray Charles (Rhino)
• Marc Kirkeby for Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century - diverse artister (Sony)

• Jeff Place for The Best of Broadside 1962–1988: Anthems of the American Underground fra Pages of Broadside Magazine - forskjellige artister ( Smithsonian Folkways )
• John Chilton for The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve - Lester Young (Verve)
• Bud Scoppa for Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat - Little Feat (Rhino)
• Dr. Demento for The Remains of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer (Rhino)
• Gerald tidlig for Yes I Can! Sammy Davis Jr.-historien - Sammy Davis, Jr. (Warner Archives / Rhino)

• Mari Evans for The Long Road Back To Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music - diverse artister (Buddha)
• Gerald Early for Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance - diverse artister (Rhino)
• Rob Bowman for The Stax Story - diverse artister ( Stax )

• Artie Shaw for Artie Shaw: Selvportrett - Artie Shaw (Bluebird / RCA)
• Dennis McNally for The Golden Road (1965–1973) - Grateful Dead (Rhino)
• Will Friedwald for Frank Sinatra i Hollywood 1940-1964 - Frank Sinatra (Reprise / Warner)
• Tim Page for A State of Wonder: The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981 - Glenn Gould (Sony Classical)

• Loren Schoenberg for Count Basie and His Orchestra - America's # 1 Band! The Columbia Years - Count Basie and His Orchestra (Columbia / Legacy)
• Ashley Kahn for Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings - Nina Simone (Verve)
• Will Friedwald for Peggy Lee - The Singles Collection - Peggy Lee (Capitol / EMI)
• Daniel Wolff for Sam Cooke med The Soul Stirrers - The Complete Specialty Records Recordings - Sam Cooke med The Soul Stirrers (Spesialitet)

• Sean Wilentz for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, konsert i Philharmonic Hall - Bob Dylan (Columbia / Legacy)
• Barry Alfonso for Carry It On - Peter, Paul og Mary (Rhino)
• Paul Krassner for Let the Buyer Beware - Lenny Bruce (Shout! Factory)
• Chris Morris for nei takk! The 70's Punk Rebellion - Various Artists (Rhino)

• Adam White for Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland / Dozier / Holland Story - diverse artister (Hip-O)
• Patrick Carr for The Legend - Johnny Cash (Columbia / Legacy)
• David Ritz for Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952–1959) - Ray Charles (Atlantic / Rhino / Warner)
• Henry "Hank" Sapoznik for You Ain't Talkin 'to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music - Charlie Poole og forskjellige artister (Columbia / Legacy)

• Marshall Wyatt for Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926–1937 - ulike artister (Old Hat)
• Tim Brooks for Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891–1922 - diverse artister (Archeophone)
• David Ritz og Ben Edmonds for Pirate Radio - The Pretenders (Rhino / Warner / Sire)
• David Fricke for There Is a Season - The Byrds (Columbia / Legacy)

• Patrick Feaster og David Giovannoni for handlingbare lovbrudd: uanstendig grammofonopptak fra 1890-tallet - forskjellige artister (arkeofon)
• Loren Schoenberg for Classic Chu Berry Columbia og Victor Sessions - Chu Berry (Mosaic)
• David Sager for Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings - King Olivers Creole Jazz Band (Off The Record)
• Ricky Jay for Ricky Jay Plays Poker - Various Artists (Octone / Legacy)

• Art Rosenbaum for Art of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum - diverse artister (Dust-to-Digital)
• Patrick Feaster og David Giovannoni for Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph - William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft (Archeophone)
• David Ritz og Jerry Wexler for Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin (Rhino / Atlantic)
• Henry "Hank" Sapoznik for The Unsung Father of Country Music: 1925–1934 - Ernest V. Stoneman (5-String)

• Mark Berresford for Dance-O-Mania: Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age, 1919–1923 - The Happy Six (Rivermont)
• Douglas Brinkley og Johnny Depp for Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - Musikk fra filmen - Various Artists (Legacy)
• Ed Cray og Bill Nowlin for My Dusty Road - Woody Guthrie ( Rounder )
• Lloyd Ecker og Susan Ecker for Origins of the Red Hot Mama, 1910–1922 - Sophie Tucker (Archeophone)

• Gage Averill for Alan Lomax på Haiti: Opptak for Library of Congress, 1936–1937 - forskjellige artister (Harte)
• Ashley Kahn for Side Steps - John Coltrane ( Prestige )
• Doug Seroff for There Breathes a Hope: The Legacy of John Work II and His Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 1909–1916 - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (Archeophone)
• Will Sheff for True Love Cast Out All Evil - Roky Erickson with Okkervil River ( Anti- )

• Neil Diamond for The Bang Years 1966-1968 - Neil Diamond (Columbia)
• Ted Olson og Tony Russell for The Bristol Sessions 1927–1928: The Big Bang of Country Music - diverse artister ( Bear Family )
• Ken Shipley for komplett mytologi - Syl Johnson (Numero)
• Alec Palao for The Music City Story: Street Corner Doo Wop, Raw R&B og Soulful Sounds From Berkeley , California 1950–75 - diverse artister (Ace)

• Stephen Wade for Banjo Diary: Lessons From Tradition - Stephen Wade (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Hans Olof Gottfridsson for første innspillinger: 50-årsjubileumsutgave - The Beatles og Tony Sheridan (Time Life)
• Holly George-Warren for The Pearl Sessions - Janis Joplin (Sony Legacy)
• Fernando Gonzalez for Piazzolla i Brooklyn - Pablo Aslan Quintet (Soundbrush)

• Ben Young for Call it Art 1964–1965 - New York Art Quartet (Triple Point)
• Alec Palao for elektrisk musikk for sinn og kropp - Country Joe & the Fish (Ace / Vanguard )
• Jonathan Cott for Stravinsky : Le sacre du printemps - Leonard Bernstein og New York Philharmonic (Sony Classical)
• Sean Wilentz for 360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story - diverse artister ( Columbia )
• Nathan Salsburg for Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923–1936 - diverse artister (Tompkins Square)

• David Sager for Happy: The 1920 Rainbo Orchestra Sides - Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra (Archeophone)
• Alec Palao for I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969–70 - diverse artister (Light In The Attic)
• Scott B. Bomar for The Other Side of Bakersfield: 1950- og 60-tallet Boppers and Rockers fra 'Nashville West' - forskjellige artister ( Bear Family )
• Jon Kirby for Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound - diverse artister (Numero)
• Scott Blackwood for The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records , Volume One (1917-27) - forskjellige artister (Third Man / Revenant )

• James P. Leary for Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946 - diverse artister (Dust-to-Digital / University of Wisconsin Press)
• Jeff Place for Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection - Lead Belly (Smithsonian Folkways)
• Ted Olson for Portrait of an American Singer - Tennessee Ernie Ford ( Bear Family )
• Ryan Barna for Songs of the Night: Dance Recordings, 1916–1925 - Joseph C. Smiths Orchestra (Archeophone)

• Mikal Gilmore for The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection - Kris Kristofferson (Legacy)
• Ted Olson & Tony Russell for The Knoxville Sessions, 1929–1930: Knox County Stomp - forskjellige artister ( Bear Family )
• Rob Sevier og Ken Shipley for Ork Records: New York, New York - forskjellige artister (Numero)
• Richard Martin for Waxing the Gospel: Mass Evangelism and the Phonograph, 1890–1900 - diverse artister (Archeophone)

• Wayne Bledsoe & Bradley Reeves for Arthur Q.Smith: The Trouble With the Truth - diverse artister ( Bear Family )
• Ted Olson for Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition - diverse artister (Great Smoky Mountains Association)
• Wright for The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin - Richard Dowling (Rivermont)
• David Giovannoni for Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville , oppfinner av lydopptak: En toårig hyllest - forskjellige artister (arkeofon)
• Michael Corcoran for Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams - Washington Phillips (Dust-to-Digital)

• James P. Leary for Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924 - forskjellige artister (Archeophone)
• Richard Martin & Ted Olson for 4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897: Foundational Recordings of America's Iconic Instrument - Charles A. Asbury (Archeophone)
• Ben Ratliff for The 1960 Time Sessions - Sonny Clark Trio (Tompkins Square)
• David Gilbert for The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra - diverse artister (Archeophone)
• Amanda Petrusich for Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition) - Bob Dylan (Columbia / Legacy)

• The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions av Judy Cantor-Navas, albumtekst (forskjellige artister)
• The Gospel According to Malaco av Robert Marovich, albumtekst (forskjellige artister)
• Pedal Steel + Four Corners av Brendan Greaves, albumtekst (Terry Allen And The Panhandle Mystery Band)
• Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection av Jeff Place, albumtekst ( Pete Seeger )

• På Minstrel Show: Minstrel Routines from the Studio, 1894–1926 av forskjellige artister (forfatter: Tim Brooks)
• The Bakersfield Sound: Contry Music Capital of the West, 1940–1974 av forskjellige tolker (forfatter: Scott B. Bomar)
• The Missing Link: How Gus Haenschen Got Us from Joplin to Jazz and Shaped the Music Business (Forfatter: Colin Hancock)
• Out of a Clear Blue Sky av Nat Brusiloff (Forfatter: David Sager)