The Grammy Award for Best Folk Album is a new category in the annual Grammy Awards ceremony from 2012.

It combines the previous Best Contemporary Folk Album

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. In 2007, this category was renamed Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album...

 and Best Traditional Folk Album

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album

The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording.An award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was also presented...

 categories.

According to the Grammy Awards organisation, the Best Folk Album category includes authentic folk material in both traditional vocal and instrumental styles, as well as contemporary material by artists who utilize traditional folk elements, sounds and instrumental techniques as the basis for their recordings. Folk music is primarily but not exclusively acoustic, often utilizing contemporary arrangements with production and sensibilities distinctly different from a pop approach.

2010s

• Grammy Awards of 2012

Nominees

• The Civil Wars
  The CIVIL warS
  The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down is an opera created in the early 1980s by director Robert Wilson to music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars and others...
  
   for Barton Hollow
  Barton Hollow
  -Album:-Singles:...
  
  
• Steve Earle
  Steve Earle
  Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....
  
   for I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
  I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
  "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" is a song written by Fred Rose and American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams, released by Williams in 1952. The last single to be released during Williams' lifetime, it reached #1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart posthumously in January...
  
  
• Fleet Foxes
  Fleet Foxes
  Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...
  
   for Helplessness Blues
  Helplessness Blues
  Helplessness Blues is the second studio album by Seattle, Washington-based folk band Fleet Foxes. It was released on May 3, 2011 as a follow-up to their eponymous 2008 Fleet Foxes album.-Summary:...
  
  
• Eddie Vedder
  Eddie Vedder
  Eddie Vedder is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. He is widely considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums...
  
   for Ukelele Songs
• Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
  
   for The Harrow & The Harvest
  The Harrow & The Harvest
  -Track listing:-Chart performance:...