Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Over 35 nominations for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards have been mastered at Gateway Mastering & DVD!

Adam Ayan is also nominated for a Grammy Award in the prestigious "Album of the Year" category, for his mastering work on the Vince Gill album "These Days". "These Days" is also nominated in the "Best Country Album" category. Below is a list of the 35 nominations for recordings mastered at Gateway Mastering & DVD by either Bob Ludwig (B) or Adam Ayan (A). For a complete list of nominees for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards check out: www.grammy.com.

2007 Grammy Award Nominations
2. Album of the Year: These Days / Vince Gill (A)
6. Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Dance Tonight / Paul McCartney (B)
8. Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals: Steppin’ Out / Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera (B)
11. Best Pop Vocal Album: Memory Almost Full / Paul McCartney (B)
14. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Cool Yule / Bette Midler (B)
15. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Timebomb / Beck (B)
15. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Only Mama Knows / Paul McCartney (B)
15. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Radio Nowhere / Bruce Springsteen (B)
16. Best Hard Rock Performance: The Pot / Tool (B)
20. Best Rock Song: Radio Nowhere / Bruce Springsteen (B)
21. Best Rock Album: Revival / John Fogerty (B)
21. Best Rock Album: Magic / Bruce Springsteen (B)
21. Best Rock Album: Sky Blue Sky / Wilco (B)
36. Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Nothing Better to Do / LeAnn Rimes (A)
36. Best Female Country Vocal Performance: Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love /
Trisha Yearwood (B)
37. Best Male Country Vocal Performance: If You’re Reading This / Tim McGraw (A)
38. Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocals: Proud of the House We Built /
Brooks and Dunn (A)
38. Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocals: How Long / Eagles (B)
39. Best Country Collaberation with Vocals: Because of You / Reba McEntire & Kelly Clarkson
(A)
41. Best Country Song: I Need You / Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Tony Lane & David Lee songwriters (A)
41. Best Country Song: If You’re Reading This / Tim McGraw, Brad Warren & Brett Warren
songwriters (A)
42. Best Country Album: These Days / Vince Gill (A)
42. Best Country Album: Let It Go / Tim McGraw (A)
61. Best Tropical Latin Album: La Llave De Mi Corazón / Juan Luis Guerra (A)
66. Best Traditional Blues Album: 10 Days Out / Kenny Wayne Shepherd featuring various
artists (B)
67. Best Contemporary Blues Album: Is It News / Doyle Bramhall (B)
67. Best Contemporary Blues Album: The Road to Excondido / JJ Cale & Eric Clapton (B)
69. Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: The Calling / Mary Chapin Carpenter (B)
75. Best Contemporary World Music Album: An Ancient Muse / Loreena McKennitt (B)
84. Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: Guaranteed (from
Into the Wild) Eddie Vedder (B)
92. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Beauty and Crime / Tchad Blake, Cameron Craig,
Emery Dobyns & Jimmy Hogarth engineers (Suzanne Vega) Mastered @ Gateway (B).
97. Producer of the Year, Classical: Judith Sherman / Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 (B)
98. Best Classical Album: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; Dick Sobotka, producer (James Levine, conductor; Boston Symphony
Orchestra) (B)
106. Best Classical Vocal Performance: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda
Songs. Peter Lieberson (James Levine, conductor; Boston Symphony Orchestra) (B)
107. Best Classical Contemporary Composition: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson:
Neruda Songs. Peter Lieberson (James Levine, conductor; Boston Symphony Orchestra) (B)
110. 10 Days Out – Blues from the Backroads (Kenny Wayne Shepherd & Various artists, Nobel
Jones, video director; Kenny Wayne Shepherd, video producer. (B)