How Tyler Childers, Jack Harlow, Sturgill Simpson & Chris Stapleton fared at 2022 Grammys

Let's hear it for the boys.

Kentucky natives Tyler Childers, Jack Harlow, Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton were all up for awards at the 64th annual Grammy Awards Sunday evening broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

But only Stapleton emerged victoriously.

Stapleton, a five-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician was nominated, and won, in three categories this year, including Best Country Album ("Starting Over"), Best Country Song (“Cold”) and Best Country Solo Performance (“You Should Probably Leave”).

Accepting his award for Best Country Album, Stapleton told the audience he has five children and was missing his 4-year-old twin's birthday to be at the award ceremony.

"I'm thinking a lot about sacrifices," he said. "I don't know how it is for everybody. ... It hurts sometimes but I hope it's making the world a better place."

The nominations add to a monumental year for Stapleton, who was named "Male Artist of the Year" at the Academy of Country Music Awards on March 7.

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Six-time nominee and Jackson, Kentucky native Simpson went head-to-head against Stapleton in the Best Country Album category, hoping to take home the win for his album "The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita." He was also nominated for Best Bluegrass Album for "Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)."

Lawrence County native and two-time Grammy nominee Childers hoped to take home his first win for Best Folk Album ("Long Violent History").

Also up for a couple of Grammy Awards is Atherton High School graduate Harlow. The Louisville native, who recently performed at five sold-out concerts in Louisville and had been announced as a headliner for the 2022 Forecastle Festival, received two 2022 Grammy nominations. The rapper was also nominated last year.

This year, Harlow is nominated in the Best Melodic Rap Performance category for his feature on pop star Lil Nas X's single "Industry Baby." Lil Nas X's album "Montero" is also up for Album of the Year, which gives Harlow another nomination as a featured artist and songwriter.

"Industry Baby," which was released in July, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Harlow's first number one song in October.

Both Harlow and Stapleton were also featured performers during the three-hour broadcast Sunday night.

The 2022 Grammy for Best Opera Recording was awarded to a graduate of New Albany High School and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Karen Kamensek, who conducted the award-winning piece “Philip Glass' Akhnaten," a modern opera, accepted the trophy along with stars J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James, and Dísella Lárusdóttir, producer David Frost, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; and The Metropolitan Opera Chorus.

As a side note, "The Queen's Gambit," a Netflix limited series set in Lexington, Kentucky, won a 2022 Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media. Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera said that rather than writing music about the game of chess, he wrote the score to reflect what the main character was experiencing during various scenes in the story.

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"So if Beth was falling in love I wrote music reflective of that," Rivera said after the awards. "Or when she was engaged in a difficult competition I wrote to that situation, a lot easier than writing a score for a game of chess."

Here's a breakdown of all the categories where the Kentucky natives were nominated. Winners are in bold:

2022 Grammy Award winners

Best Country Solo Performance

• Chris Stapleton: "You Should Probably Leave"

• Kacey Musgraves: "camera roll"

• Jason Isbell: "All I Do Is Drive"

• Mickey Guyton: "Remember Her Name"

• Luke Combs: "Forever After All"

Best Country Song

• Mickey Guyton, Blake Hubbard, Jarrod Ingram & Parker Welling: "Remember Her Name"

• Cameron Bartolini, Walker Hayes, Josh Jenkins & Shane Stevens: "Fancy Like"

• Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley & Thomas Rhett: "Country Again"

• Dave Cobb, J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon & Chris Stapleton: "Cold"

• Ian Fitchuk, Kacey Musgraves & Daniel Tashian: "camera roll"

• Jessie Jo Dillon, Maren Morris, Jimmy Robbins & Laura Veltz: "Better Than We Found It"

Best Country Album

• Chris Stapleton: "Starting Over"

• Sturgill Simpson: "The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita"

• Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall & Jack Ingram: "The Marfa Tapes"

• Mickey Guyton: "Remember Her Name"

• Brothers Osborne: "Skeletons"

Best Bluegrass Album

• Billy Strings: "Renewal"

• Rhonda Vincent: "Music Is What I See"

• Sturgill Simpson: "Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)"

• The Infamous Stringdusters: "A Tribute To Bill Monroe"

• Béla Fleck: "My Bluegrass Heart"

Best Folk Album

• Sarah Jarosz: "Blue Heron Suite"

• Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi: "They're Calling Me Home"

• Madison Cunningham: "Wednesday (Extended Edition)"

• Tyler Childers: "Long Violent History"

• Mary Chapin Carpenter: "One Night Lonely [Live]"

Best Melodic Rap Performance

• Kanye West Featuring The Weeknd & Lil Baby: "Hurricane"

• Tyler, The Creator Featuring Youngboy Never Broke Again & Ty Dolla $ign: "Wusyaname"

• Lil Nas X Featuring Jack Harlow: "Industry Baby"

• Doja Cat: "Need To Know"

• J. Cole Featuring Lil Baby: "P R I D E . I S . T H E . D E V I L"

Album of the Year

• Kanye West: "Donda"

• Lil Nas X (with featured artist Jack Harlow): "Montero"

• Justin Bieber: "Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)"

• Doja Cat: "Planet Her (Deluxe)"

• H.E.R.: "Back Of My Mind"

• Jon Batiste: "We Are"

• Olivia Rodrigo: "Sour"

• Taylor Swift: "Evermore"

• Billie Eilish: "Happier Than Ever"

• Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: "Love For Sale"

Reach Kirby Adams at kadams@courier-journal.com or Twitter @kirbylouisville.

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