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Hear This Year's Grammy Nominees On World Cafe

XPN | By Bruce Warren

Published December 7, 2016 at 10:00 AM EST

Clockwise from top left: Iggy Pop (Andreas Neumann), Sturgill Simpson, The Record Company (Galea McGregor / WXPN)

On Tuesday morning, the nominees for the 59th Grammy Awards were announced. Out of all the nominations, the category World Cafeis watching most closely is Best Alternative Music Album; those nominees are David Bowie, Bon Iver, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop and Radiohead.

But we have favorites nominated in many other categories, too. Among them are Adele, Anderson .Paak, Sturgill Simpson, The Record Company, Snarky Puppy, Alabama Shakes, William Bell, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, The Avett Brothers and more. Below, listen to sessions with Grammy nominees who've been recent guests on World Cafe.

A complete list of nominees is available on the Grammys website. The telecast, hosted by James Corden, airs Sunday, Feb. 12 on CBS.

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Bruce Warren

Bruce Warren is assistant general manager for programming of WXPN in Philadelphia. Besides serving as executive producer of World Café, Warren also contributes to Paste magazine and writes for two blogs: Some Velvet Blog and WXPN's All About The Music Blog.

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