Dailey & Vincent, a bluegrass duo boasting Smithville resident Darrin Vincent as one of its members, is nominated for an Album of the Year Grammy award this year.
Since Vincent and Jamie Dailey launched their career as a bluegrass duo in 2007 on Rounder Records, they have received more than 30 Awards and were named the International Bluegrass Music Association’s “Entertainers of the Year” for three consecutive years.
Dailey & Vincent also received a GMA Dove Award Nomination for Best Bluegrass Album for “Singing From the Heart,” an all acappella collection of gospel songs whose profits went to benefit the Tennessee Bible College in Cookeville.
Before forming the successful duo, Vincent was guitar and mandolin player and harmony vocalist with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, and Dailey was the lead singer and guitarist for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.
Vincent told the Review that although he won Grammies in past years with Skaggs And Kentucky Thunder, including the 1999 Best Bluegrass Album award, the 2000  Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album award, the 2003     Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal award, and Best Bluegrass Album honors in 2004 and 2006, it would be a special  honor to place the a Daily & Vincent trophy on his Grammy shelf.
“I’ve got five from when I was with Ricky (Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder) on my mantle,” he said. “It’s not that I’m not proud of the awards we won with Ricky, but it sure would be great for Jamie and I to win one of our own.”
Vincent said that he is awed by the fact that the nominations alone place the group in such distinguished company.
“Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Allison Krauss and Ricky have all won the award in the past. That's some big company,” Vincent told the Review.
Daily & Vincent have released four albums,  “Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers,”  “Dailey & Vincent,” which was IBMA Album of the Year in 2008, “Brothers From Different Mothers,” and “Singing From the Heart.”
The duo also hosts an annual homecoming concert in Gainesboro, which benefits the Dailey & Vincent Helping Hands Fund.
The fund helps underprivileged children in Jackson and DeKalb counties.
Vincent will have to wait along with everyone else until the broadcast of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 10 to find out who will take the award home.
The show will be broadcast live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS at 8 p.m. and will be hosted for the second time by LL Cool J.