NOTE: All the following are "Of The Year:" The winners are highlighted: The rest were the competition. Bluegrass Song Writer: Larry Cordle and Larry Shell; Wayne Taylor; Billy Smith; Tim Stafford; Carl Jackson; Aubrey Haynie Bluegrass Album: - Back Home Again; Rhonda Vincent, Rounder Records
- Talkin' To Myself; Lonesome River Band, Sugar Hills Records (Review)
- Follow Me Back To The Fold; Mark Newton, Rebel Records
- Murder, Music Row; Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, Shell Point Records
(Review) - John & Mary; IIIrd Tyme Out, Rounder Records (Review)
- There'll Always Be A Rocking Chair; David Parmley& Continental Divide, Pinecastle Records
Bluegrass Performers: - Bass Fiddle:
Wayne Taylor; Marshall Wilburn; Mike Bub; Mike Anglin; Ray Deaton; Missy Raines - Dobro:
Gene Wooten; Jerry Douglas; Rob Ickes Tim Graves; Josh Graves; Phil Leadbetter - Guitar:
Tim Stafford; James Alan Shelton; Bryan Sutton Kenny Smith; John Chapman; Tony Rice - Mandolin:
Wayne Benson; Don Rigsby; Shawn Lane; Ronnie McCoury Alan Bibey; Ricky Skaggs; - Banjo:
Rob McCoury; Steve Dilling; Jim Mills; Sammy Shelor; J D Crowe; Terry Baucom. - Fiddle:
Jason Carter; Stuart Duncan; Mike Hartgrove; Glen Duncan; Rickie Simpkins; Aubrey Haynie
Vocalists: - B>Female Contemporary:
Rhonda Vincent; Sonya Isaacs; Tina Adair; Laurie Lewis; Alison Krauss; Jeanette Williams - Female (Traditional):
B>Dale Ann Bradley; Lynn Morris; Claire Lynch Polly Lewis; Suzanne Thomas; Valerie Smith - Male (Contemporary):
Larry Stephenson; Barry Scott; Russell Moore; Charlie Waller; Steve Gulley; Ronnie Bowman - Male (Traditional):
Don Rigsby; Larry Sparks; Vern Young; Del McCoury James King; David Parmley
Gospel Group (Contemporary): IIIrd Tyme Out; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; The Isaacs; SitzeFamily Mountain Heart; Marksmen Quartet Gospel Group (Traditional): Lewis Family; Jerry & Tammy Sullivan; Village Singers; Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Paul Williams & The Victory Trio Gospel Group (Overall): Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; The Isaacs; Lewis Family; Marksmen Quartet Mountain Heart; IIIrd Tyme Out Bluegrass Vocal Group: IIIrd Tyme Out; Blue Highway; Lonesome RiverBand; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Mountain Heart; Larry Stephenson Band Bluegrass Instrumental Group: Del McCoury Band; Lonesome River Band; Blue Highway David Parmley & Continental Divide; Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder; IIIrd Tyme Out Bluegrass Band (Overall): Lonesome River Band; IIIrd Tyme Out; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time Del McCoury Band; David Parmley & Continental Divide Entertaining Group: Rarely Herd; David Parmley & Continental Divide; Lonesome River Band; IIIrd Tyme Out; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver; Goldwing Express Entertainer: Little Roy Lewis; Larry Sparks; Jeff WeaverRon Thomason; Del McCoury; Randall Hylton Song: - Murder, Music Row - Larry Cordle & Lonesome StandardTime; written by Larry Cordle, Larry Shell, Shell Point Records; (Review)
- John & Mary - IIIrd Tyme Out; written by Wayne Benson, Russell Moore, Donnie Carver, Rounder Records; (Review)
- Don't Come Out Of The Hole- Blue Highway; written by Wayne Taylor, Ceili Records;
- Heartbreak Town - Ronnie McCoury; written by Ronnie McCoury, Rounder Records;
- Lonesome Wind Blues -Rhonda Vincent; Written byWayne Raney, Rounder Records;
- There'll Always Be A Rocking Chair - Continental Divide; written by Billy Smith, Pinecastle Records.
Bluegrass Promoter: Norman Adams Bluegrass Radio Station: WSM-AM, Nashville Bluegrass DJ: Eddie Stubbs, WSM-AM, Nashville Bluegrass Club Newsletter:Spring Creek Bluegrass Newsletter, Spring, Texas
 5th Feb 2001
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