Blake Shelton and The Band Perry to join Glen Campbell for special Grammy performance
Blake Shelton
The Band Perry
Glen Campbell
Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and five-time Grammy winner Glen Campbell — currently on the road for his “Goodbye Tour” — will join current Grammy nominees The Band Perry and Blake Shelton, who lives in Tishomingo, for a special performance on the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.
Hosted by two-time Grammy Award winner and “NCIS: Los Angeles” star LL Cool J, the Grammy Awards take place live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 on the CBS Television Network.
Shelton. an Ada native, is nominated for two awards: Best Country Solo Performance for “Honey Bee” and Best Country Album for “Red River Blue.” Also, his chart-topping rendition of “God Gave Me You,” written by contemporary Christian singer Dave Barnes, also earned a nod for best country song, an award presented to songwriters.
The Band Perry is nominated for Best New Artist.
A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Campbell announced in 2011 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and released his swan song album, “Ghost on the Canvas.” Before he was the “Rhinestone Cowboy” hitmaker, Campbell was part of The Wrecking Crew, a group of top-notch session players who performed on myriad albums in the 1960s.
As part of The Wrecking Crew, Campbell played on Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night,” the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” the Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville” and many other hits across multiple genres.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, Campbell became a huge and influential country music star, and his country-pop sound helped usher the format into the mainstream. Several of his biggest hits in that era, including “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston,” came from the pen of songwriting star and Elk City native Jimmy Webb.
Shelton and Webb performed “Wichita Lineman” in 2007 during the Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular concert.
Previously announced performers for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards include current Grammy nominees Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay and Rihanna, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, Paul McCartney, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift.
Shelton, Aldean, The Band Perry and Minaj will perform on the Grammy broadcast for the first time, while Clarkson, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Mars, McCartney, Rihanna and Swift are returning to the Grammy stage.
LL Cool J has hosted “The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! – Countdown to Music’s Biggest Night” since its inception in December 2008. This is his first time hosting the annual Grammy Awards broadcast.
Additional performers, presenters and special segments will be announced soon.
-BAM
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