Beyonce Vindicated, Wins Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”

February 2, 2025 9:13 pm

By Roger Friedman

Beyonce won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album tonight at the Grammys.

Earlier, she won Best Country Song.

Beyonce was such a shoo-in that Taylor Swift did the presentation.

It was a vindication for Beyonce after being shunned by the Country Music Awards.

Her husband Jay Z last year chastised the Grammy audience for not giving Beyonce enough awards. Tonight he smiled.

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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