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Posted on: Friday, December 8, 2006

Top category nominees

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Hawaiian music album: "Generation Hawai'i," Amy Hanaiali'i; "Grandmaster Slack Key Guitar," Ledward Ka'apana; "The Wild Hawaiian," Henry Kapono; "Hawaiian Slack Key Kings," various artists; "Legends of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar — Live From Maui," various artists.

Record of the year: "Be Without You," Mary J. Blige; "You're Beautiful," James Blunt; "Not Ready to Make Nice," Dixie Chicks; "Crazy," Gnarls Barkley; "Put Your Records On," Corinne Bailey Rae.

Album of the year: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks; "St. Elsewhere," Gnarls Barkley; "Continuum," John Mayer; "Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers; "FutureSex/LoveSounds," Justin Timberlake.

Song of the year: "Be Without You," Johnta Austin, Mary J. Blige, Bryan-Michael Cox and Jason Perry (Mary J. Blige); "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson (Carrie Underwood); "Not Ready to Make Nice," Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks); "Put Your Records On," John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou and Corinne Bailey Rae (Corinne Bailey Rae); "You're Beautiful," James Blunt, Amanda Ghost and Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt).

New artist: James Blunt; Chris Brown; Imogen Heap; Corinne Bailey Rae; Carrie Underwood.

Pop Vocal Album: "Back to Basics," Christina Aguilera; "Back to Bedlam," James Blunt; "The River in Reverse," Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint; "Continuum," John Mayer; "FutureSex/Love Sounds," Justin Timberlake.

Rock album: "Try," John Mayer Trio; "Highway Companion," Tom Petty; "Broken Boy Soldiers," The Raconteurs; "Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers; "Living With War," Neil Young.

Alternative music album: "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," Arctic Monkeys; "At War With the Mystics," the Flaming Lips; "St. Elsewhere," Gnarls Barkley; "Show Your Bones," Yeah Yeah Yeahs; "The Eraser," Thom Yorke.

R&B album: "The Breakthrough," Mary J. Blige; "Unpredictable," Jamie Foxx; "Testimony: Vol. 1, Life and Relationship," India.Arie; "3121," Prince; "Coming Home," Lionel Richie.

Rap album: "Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor," Lupe Fiasco; "Release Therapy," Ludacris; "In My Mind," Pharrell; "Game Theory," the Roots; "King," T.I.

Country album: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks; "Like Red on a Rose," Alan Jackson; "The Road to Here," Little Big Town; "You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker," Willie Nelson; "Your Man," Josh Turner.

Latin pop album: "Adentro," Arjona; "Lo Que Trajo El Barco," Obie Bermodez; "Individual," Fulano; "Trozos De Mi Alma 2," Marco Antonio Solis; "Limon Y Sal," Julieta Venegas.

Contemporary jazz album: "The Hidden Land," Bela Fleck and the Flecktones; "People People Music Music," Groove Collective; "Rewind That," Christian Scott; "Sexotica," Sex Mob; "Who Let the Cats Out?," Mike Stern.

Classical album: "Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9," Bernard Haitink, conductor, James Mallinson producer (London Symphony Orchestra); "Lieberson: Rilke Songs, the Six Realms, Horn Concerto," David Starobin, producer (the Odense Symphony Orchestra); "Mahler: Symphony No. 7," Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, Andreas Neubronner, producer (San Francisco Symphony; "Martha Argerich and Friends: Live From the Lugano Festival 2005," Martha Argerich and Friends, Ulrich Ruscher, producer; "Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito," Rene Jacobs, conductor, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Bernarda Fink, Sergio Foresti, Sunhai Im, Mark Padmore and Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Martin Sauer, producer (Freiburger Barockorchester)