ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS (ASRC)
BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN RECORDED COUNTRY OR ROOTS MUSIC
Scott B. Bomar, The Bakersfield Sound (Bear Family Records)
John Broven, South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous (Pelican Publishing)
Heath Carpenter, The Philosopher King: T Bone Burnett and the Ethic of a Southern Cultural Renaissance (University of Georgia Press)
Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, Country Music: An Illustrated History (Knopf)