Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel and Robert Plant were just some of the early Grammy Award winners announced prior to the start of the televised ceremony.
Before the Grammy Awards gets officially underway, the board announces a group of winners at the pre-awards shows.The winners so far are:
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical - Rick Rubin (Death Magnetic, Home Before Dark, Mercy, Seeing Things, Weezer)
Best Rock Song - Girls In Their Summer Clothes - Bruce Springsteen, songwriter
Best Rock Instrumental Performance - Peaches En Regalia - Zappa Plays Zappa Featuring Steve Vai & Napoleon Murphy Brock
Best Metal Performance - My Apocalypse - Metallica
Best Pop Instrumental Album - Jingle All The Way - B??la Fleck & The Flecktones
Best Pop Instrumental Performance - I Dreamed There Was No War - Eagles
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance - You've Got The Love I Need - Al Green Featuring Anthony Hamilton
Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals - Stay With Me (By The Sea) - Al Green Featuring John Legend
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album - Still Unforgettable - Natalie Cole
Best Country Album - Troubadour - George Strait
Best Bluegrass Album - Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 And 1947 - Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Best Country Instrumental Performance - Cluster Pluck - Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee, Brent Mason
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals - Killing The Blues - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Best Reggae Album - Jah Is Real - Burning Spear
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album - Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Best Traditional Folk Album - At 89 - Pete Seeger
Best Traditional Blues Album - One Kind Favor - B.B. King
Best Contemporary Blues Album - City That Care Forgot - Dr. John And The Lower 911
Best Long Form Music Video - Runnin' Down A Dream - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Peter Bogdanovich, video director; Skot Bright video producer
Best Traditional Gospel Album - Down In New Orleans - Blind Boys Of Alabama
Best comedy Album - It's Bad For Ya - George Carlin
Best Polka Album - Let The Whole World Sing - Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra
Best Contemporary World Music Album - Global Drum Project - Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) - Here's That Rainy Day (Natalie Cole) - Nan Schwartz, arranger (Natalie Cole)
Best Instrumental Arrangement - Define Dancing (From Wall-E) - Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman, arrangers
Best Recording Package - Death Magnetic (Metallica) - Bruce Duckworth, Sarah Moffat & David Turner, art directors
Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media - Down To Earth (From Wall-E) - Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman.
