Thank you!

...I most definitely do rock (and alternative/psychedelic/punk), in the literal sense, since 1978.

One thing that disappointed me about the 60th Grammy Awards is that, in all of the major top level categories, there is not ONE SINGLE rock-based artist nominated.

Those categories would be: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best New Artist, etc - basically the stuff they show on the live TV broadcast.

I cannot remember that happening ever before in 25 years as a NARAS mamber. SAD!

Thanks so much for your vote and for letting us know! Here's hoping he wins!

Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run

Confessions Of A Serial Songwriter
Shelly Peiken

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Bernie Sanders)
Bernie Sanders And Mark Ruffalo

The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher

[link: https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/60th-annual-grammy-awards]

You have to scroll quite a way down the page to get to the Spoken Word category.

If Bernie wasn't nominated, I probably would have gone with Neil Degrasse Tyson, or maybe Springsteen.

Not those nominated this year -- but the Sanders/Ruffalo collaboration may face some pretty stiff competition.

...I have noticed that past winners going back to 2003 included:

2003 - Al Franken, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

2004 - Bill Clinton, My Life

2005 & 2007 - Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father & The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream

2006 & 2015 - Jimmy Carter, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis & A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

2008 - Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

2010 - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook)

2013 - Stephen Colbert, America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't

So, 9 of the last 13 years, liberal, politically oriented works won. The Recording Academy leans pretty left.