One of the more impressive sights in the Country Music Hall of Fame is the cluster of 11 Grammy Awards credited to Roger Miller, the first country act to shake up the awards show scene as a crossover star. The artist won all 11 in a mere two years (1965 and 1966), off the strength of his critical and commercial hits “Dang Me” and “King of the Road.”
Prior to Miller’s run of Grammy Awards success, country singers competed with popular folk artists for just one award: Best Country & Western Single. Winners of the lone country-specific trophy in the all-genre awards show’s first six years included legends (Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins, Jimmy Dean and Bobby Bare) and a couple of less likely selections (the Kingston Trio and Burl Ives). In 1965, however, the number of country-focused Grammy Awards categories broadened with the introduction of the short-lived Best New Country & Western Artist trophy, won that year by Miller and only handed out once more, to the Statler Br
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