Best Contemporary Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Contemporary Folk Recording

42nd Annual Grammy Awards • 2000

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1998 and Aug 30, 1999

Tom Waits won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album incl. Best Ethnic or Contemporary Folk Recording with "Mule Variations"

Winner

Nominees

Year	Winner	Work
2011	Ray LaMontagne	God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise	All Nominees
2010	Steve Earle	Townes	All Nominees
2009	Robert Plant, Alison Krauss	Raising Sand	All Nominees
2008	Steve Earle	Washington Square Serenade	All Nominees
2007	Bob Dylan	Modern Times	All Nominees
2006	John Prine	Fair & Square	All Nominees
2005	Steve Earle	The Revolution Starts...Now	All Nominees
2004	Warren Zevon	The Wind	All Nominees
2003	Nickel Creek	This Side	All Nominees
2002	Bob Dylan	Love And Theft	All Nominees
2001	Emmylou Harris	Red Dirt Girl	All Nominees
2000	Tom Waits	Mule Variations	All Nominees
1999	Lucinda Williams	Car Wheels On A Gravel Road	All Nominees
1998	Bob Dylan	Time Out Of Mind	All Nominees
1997	Bruce Springsteen	The Ghost Of Tom Joad	All Nominees
1996	Emmylou Harris	Wrecking Ball	All Nominees
1995	Johnny Cash	American Recordings	All Nominees
1994	Nanci Griffith	Other Voices/Other Rooms	All Nominees
1993	The Chieftains	Another Country	All Nominees
1992	John Prine	The Missing Years	All Nominees
1991	Shawn Colvin	Steady On	All Nominees
1990	Indigo Girls	Indigo Girls	All Nominees
1989	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	All Nominees
1988	Steve Goodman	Unfinished Business	All Nominees
1987	Al Bunetta, Dan Einstein, Hank Neuberger	Tribute To Steve Goodman	All Nominees