Grammy for bedste mandlige country vokalpræstation

Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance er en amerikansk pris der uddeles af Recording Academy for årets bedste udgivelse af en mandlig country-sanger. Prisen går til sangeren. Prisen har været uddelt siden 1965.

Prisens navn har været ændret et par gange:

• Fra 1965 til 1967 hed prisen Best Country & Western Vocal Performance – Male
• I 1968 hed prisen Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male
• Fra 1969 til 1994 hed prisen Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
• Siden 1995 har prisen været Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Modtagere af Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Year	Artist	Work	Nominees
1965	Roger Miller	"Dang Me"	Bobby Bare – "Four Strong Winds" Johnny Cash – "I Walk the Line" George Hamilton IV – Fort Worth, Dallas or Houston Sonny James – You're the Only World I Know Hank Locklin – Hank Locklin Sings Hank Williams Buck Owens – "My Heart Skips a Beat"
1966	Roger Miller	"King of the Road"	Eddy Arnold – "Make the World Go Away" Bobby Bare – "Talk Me Some Sense" Carl Belew – "Crystal Chandelier" Jim Reeves – "Is It Really Over?"
1967	David Houston	"Almost Persuaded"	Ben Colder – "Almost Persuaded No. 2" Jack Greene – "There Goes My Everything" Charley Pride – "Just Between You and Me" Jim Reeves – "Distant Drums"
1968	Glen Campbell	"Gentle on My Mind"	Jim Ed Brown – "Pop a Top" Jack Greene – "All the Time" Charley Pride – "Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger" Porter Wagoner – "The Cold Hard Facts of Life"
1969	Johnny Cash	"Folsom Prison Blues"	Glen Campbell – "I Wanna Live" Henson Cargill – "Skip a Rope" Roger Miller – "Little Green Apples" Porter Wagoner – "The Carroll County Accident"
1970	Johnny Cash	"A Boy Named Sue"	Clay Hart – "Spring" Bobby Lewis – "From Heaven to Heartache" Charley Pride – "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)" Jerry Reed – "Are You from Dixie ('Cause I'm from Dixie Too)"
1971	Ray Price	"For the Good Times"	Johnny Cash – "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" Merle Haggard – Okie from Muskogee Charley Pride – Charley Pride's 10th Album Jerry Reed – "Amos Moses"
1972	Jerry Reed	"When You're Hot, You're Hot"	Freddie Hart – "Easy Loving" Johnny Paycheck – "She's All I Got" Ray Price – "I Won't Mention It Again" Charley Pride – "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'"
1973	Charley Pride	Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs	Merle Haggard – "It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)" Waylon Jennings – "Good Hearted Woman" Jerry Lee Lewis – "Chantilly Lace" Charlie Rich – "I Take It on Home"
1974	Charlie Rich	"Behind Closed Doors"	Tom T. Hall – "(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine" Kris Kristofferson – "Why Me" Charley Pride – "Amazing Love" Johnny Russell – "Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer"
1975	Ronnie Milsap	"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"	Glen Campbell – "Bonaparte's Retreat" Roy Clark – The Entertainer Waylon Jennings – "I'm a Ramblin' Man" Charley Pride – Country Feelin'
1976	Willie Nelson	"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"	Glen Campbell – "Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.)" John Denver – "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" Freddy Fender – "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" Waylon Jennings – "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" Ray Stevens – "Misty"
1977	Ronnie Milsap	"(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man"	Mac Davis – "Forever Lovers" Larry Gatlin – "Broken Lady" Waylon Jennings – "Are You Ready for the Country" Willie Nelson – "I'd Have to Be Crazy"
1978	Kenny Rogers	"Lucille"	Larry Gatlin – "I Don't Wanna Cry" Waylon Jennings – "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" Ronnie Milsap – "It Was Almost Like a Song" Jerry Jeff Walker – "Mr. Bojangles"
1979	Willie Nelson	"Georgia on My Mind"	Waylon Jennings – "I've Always Been Crazy" Ronnie Milsap – "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" Johnny Paycheck – "Take This Job and Shove It" Elvis Presley – "Softly, as I Leave You" Kenny Rogers – "Love or Something Like It"
1980	Kenny Rogers	"The Gambler"	Willie Nelson – "Whiskey River" Charley Pride – "Burgers and Fries/When I Stop Leavin' (I'll Be Gone)" Eddie Rabbitt – "Every Which Way but Loose" Hank Williams Jr. – "Family Tradition"
1981	George Jones	"He Stopped Loving Her Today"	George Burns – "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" Johnny Lee – "Lookin' for Love" Willie Nelson – "On the Road Again" Eddie Rabbitt – "Drivin' My Life Away"
1982	Ronnie Milsap	"(There's) No Gettin' Over Me"	"I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" – John Anderson "Somewhere over the Rainbow" – Willie Nelson "Step by Step" – Eddie Rabbitt "Still Doin' Time" – George Jones
1983	Willie Nelson	"Always on My Mind"	Ronnie Milsap – "He Got You" Jerry Reed – "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)" Kenny Rogers – "Love Will Turn You Around" Ricky Skaggs – "Heartbroke"
1984	Lee Greenwood	"I.O.U."	Ray Charles – "Born to Love Me" Earl Thomas Conley – "Holding Her and Loving You" Vern Gosdin – "If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)" Ronnie Milsap – "Stranger in My House" Kenny Rogers – "All My Life"
1985	Merle Haggard	"That's the Way Love Goes"	Lee Greenwood – "God Bless the USA" Willie Nelson – "City of New Orleans" Ricky Skaggs – "Country Boy" Hank Williams Jr. – "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"
1986	Ronnie Milsap	"Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)"	Lee Greenwood – "I Don't Mind the Thorns (If You're the Rose)" Mel McDaniel – "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On" Willie Nelson – "Forgiving You Was Easy" Ricky Skaggs – "You Make Me Feel Like a Man"
1987	Ronnie Milsap	Lost in the Fifties Tonight	Steve Earle – "Guitar Town" Randy Travis – "Diggin' Up Bones" Hank Williams Jr. – "Ain't Misbehavin'' Dwight Yoakam – "Guitars, Cadillacs"
1988	Randy Travis	Always & Forever	Steve Earle – "Exit 0" George Strait – "All My Ex's Live in Texas" Hank Williams Jr. – "Born to Boogie" Dwight Yoakam – "Hillbilly Deluxe"
1989	Randy Travis	Old 8x10	Rodney Crowell – Diamonds & Dirt Lyle Lovett – "Pontiac" Dan Seals – "Addicted" Dwight Yoakam – Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
1990	Lyle Lovett	Lyle Lovett and His Large Band	Clint Black – "Killin' Time" Rodney Crowell – "After All This Time" Randy Travis – "It's Just a Matter of Time" Keith Whitley – "I'm No Stranger to the Rain"
1991	Vince Gill	"When I Call Your Name"	Garth Brooks – "Friends In Low Places" Doug Stone – "I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box)" Randy Travis – "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart" Dwight Yoakam – "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose"
1992	Garth Brooks	Ropin' the Wind	Billy Dean – "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" Vince Gill – Pocket Full of Gold Alan Jackson – "Don't Rock the Jukebox" Travis Tritt – "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)"
1993	Vince Gill	"I Still Believe in You"	Garth Brooks – The Chase Billy Ray Cyrus – "Achy Breaky Heart" Randy Travis – "Better Class of Losers" Travis Tritt – "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man"
1994	Dwight Yoakam	"Ain't That Lonely Yet"	Garth Brooks – "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" Alan Jackson – "Chattahoochee" George Jones – "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" Aaron Neville – "The Grand Tour"
1995	Vince Gill	"When Love Finds You"	David Ball – "Thinkin' Problem" John Berry – "Your Love Amazes Me" John Michael Montgomery – "I Swear" Dwight Yoakam – "Pocket of a Clown"
1996	Vince Gill	"Go Rest High on That Mountain"	John Berry – "Standing on the Edge of Goodbye" Alan Jackson – "Gone Country" John Michael Montgomery – "I Can Love You Like That" Dwight Yoakam – "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
1997	Vince Gill	"Worlds Apart"	Clint Black – "Like the Rain" Junior Brown – "My Wife Thinks You're Dead" Lyle Lovett – "Private Conversation" Dwight Yoakam – "Nothing"
1998	Vince Gill	"Pretty Little Adriana"	Clint Black – "Something That We Do" Johnny Cash – "Rusty Cage" Willie Nelson – "Peach Pickin' Time Down In Georgia" George Strait – "Carrying Your Love with Me"
1999	Vince Gill	"If You Ever Have Forever in Mind"	Clint Black – "Nothin' but the Taillights" Garth Brooks – "To Make You Feel My Love" Steve Wariner – "Holes in the Floor of Heaven"
2000	George Jones	"Choices"	Vince Gill – "Don't Come Cryin' to Me" Lyle Lovett – "That's Right (You're Not from Texas)" Tim McGraw – "Please Remember Me" Dwight Yoakam – "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
2001	Johnny Cash	"Solitary Man"	Vince Gill – "Feels Like Love" Billy Gilman – "One Voice" Tim McGraw – "My Best Friend" Dwight Yoakam – "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (live)"
2002	Ralph Stanley	"O Death"	Ryan Adams – "Lovesick Blues" Johnny Cash – "I Dreamed About Mama Last Night" Lyle Lovett – "San Antonio Girl" Tim McGraw – "Grown Men Don't Cry" Willie Nelson – "Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)"
2003	Johnny Cash	"Give My Love to Rose"	Pat Green – "Three Days" Alan Jackson – "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" Joe Nichols – "The Impossible" Brad Paisley – "I'm Gonna Miss Her"
2004	Vince Gill	"Next Big Thing"	Ray Benson – "Annabelle" Lyle Lovett – "My Baby Don't Tolerate" Tim McGraw – "She's My Kind of Rain" Joe Nichols – "Brokenheartsville" Randy Travis – "Three Wooden Crosses"
2005	Tim McGraw	"Live Like You Were Dying"	Johnny Cash – "Engine One-Forty-Three" Lyle Lovett – "In My Own Mind" Willie Nelson – "You Are My Flower" Keith Urban – "You'll Think of Me"
2006	Keith Urban	"You'll Think of Me"	George Jones – "Funny How Time Slips Away" Toby Keith – "As Good as I Once Was" Delbert McClinton – "Midnight Communion" Willie Nelson – "Good Ol' Boys" Brad Paisley – "Alcohol"
2007	Vince Gill	"The Reason Why"	Dierks Bentley – "Every Mile a Memory" George Strait – "The Seashores of Old Mexico" Josh Turner – "Would You Go with Me" Keith Urban – "Once in a Lifetime"
2008	Keith Urban	"Stupid Boy"	Dierks Bentley – "Long Trip Alone" Alan Jackson – "A Woman's Love" Tim McGraw – "If You're Reading This" George Strait – "Give It Away"
2009	Brad Paisley	"Letter to Me"	Trace Adkins – "You're Gonna Miss This" Jamey Johnson – "In Color" James Otto – "Just Got Started Lovin' You" George Strait – "Troubadour"
2010	Keith Urban	"Sweet Thing"	Trace Adkins – "All I Ask for Anymore" Billy Currington – "People Are Crazy" Jamey Johnson – "High Cost of Living" George Strait – "Living for the Night"
2011	Keith Urban	"'Til Summer Comes Around"	Jamey Johnson – "Macon" Toby Keith – "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Sang)" David Nail – "Turning Home" Chris Young – "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Sang)"

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