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EPK - AWARDS
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These are some of the awards that Grant has won over the years. The list scrolls.
Award Org | Year | Type | Work | Award Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
InterContinental Music Awards | 2025 | Winner | "She Walked" | Best American Roots Song |
InterContinental Music Awards | 2025 | Winner | “Scarborough Fair (Reprise)" | Best Instrumentalist |
Elite Music Awards | 2025 | Winner | "Wade in the Water" | Producer of the Year |
InterContinental Music Awards | 2025 | Winner | "Your Fire" | Best American Roots Song |
Radio Music Awards | 2025 | Winner | "Lord Knows I Cried" | Best Blues Recording |
New England Songwriting Competition | 2025 | Winner | "Lord Knows I Cried" | Best Blues Song |
Global Music Awards | 2025 | Silver Medal | MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES | Best Album |
Global Music Awards | 2025 | Silver Medal | MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES | Best Album Concept |
International Songwriting Competition | 2025 | Semifinalist | "Babylon is Falling" (Kevin Lucas & Grant Maloy Smith) | Best AAA Song |
International Songwriting Competition | 2025 | Semifinalist | "All I Gotta Do" | Best Blues Song |
SIMI Music Video Festival | 2025 | Official Selection | "Scarborough Fair (reprise)" | Best Music Video |
World Entertainment Awards | 2025 | Nominee | Scarborough Fair (Reprise) | Best Duo (Grant Maloy Smith and Kevin Lucas) |
HIMA (Hollywood Independent Music Awards) | 2025 | Nominee | "All I Gotta Do" | Best Blues Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2025 | Nominee | "Jericho" | Best Alternative Recording (with Kevin Lucas) |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2025 | Nominee | "Jericho" | Best Alternative Artist (with Kevin Lucas) |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2025 | Nominee | "Wade In The Water" | Best Gospel Recording |
World Entertainment Awards | 2025 | Nominee | Memphis (feat. Janis Ian) | Best Americana Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2025 | Nominee | PENNY BALLADS | Album of the Year |
HIMA (Hollywood Independent Music Awards) | 2025 | Nominee | "Memphis" (feat. Janis Ian) | Best Americana/Roots |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2025 | Nominee | "Wade In The Water" | Best Gospel Artist (with Kevin Lucas) |
World Entertainment Awards | 2025 | Nominee | Mississippi: American Stories | Best Americana Album |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2025 | Nominee | "Wade In The Water" | Best Gospel Producer |
ISSA (International Singer-Songwriters Association) | 2025 | Nomination | MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES | Vocalist of the Year |
ISSA (International Singer-Songwriters Association) | 2025 | Nomination | "All I Gotta Do" | Single of the Year |
ISSA (International Singer-Songwriters Association) | 2025 | Nomination | MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES | Album of the Year |
ISSA (International Singer-Songwriters Association) | 2025 | Nomination | MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES | Best Emerging Artist |
InterContinental Music Awards | 2025 | Finalist | "Lord Knows I Cried" | Best Blues Song |
HMFA Holiday Music & Film Awards | 2024 | Winnner | "O Holy Night" | Best Americana Christmas Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Mother Mother" | Best Americana Song |
IMC Radio Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Scarborough Fair (Reprise)" | Best Folk Producer |
IMC Radio Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Scarborough Fair (Reprise)" | Best Folk Group (Grant Maloy Smith and Kevin Lucas) |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "You Don't Love Me Anymore" | Best Country Song |
IMC Radio Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Scarborough Fair (Reprise)" | Best Folk Song |
IMC Radio Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Scarborough Fair (Reprise)" | Best Folk Recording |
InterContinental Music Awards | 2024 | Winner | "River of Ages" | Best American Roots Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Lord Knows I Cried" (dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) | Best Special Recording |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "All I Gotta Do" | Best Americana Artist |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "All I Gotta Do" | Best Americana Recording |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "You Don't Love Me Anymore" | Best Country Recording |
World Songwriters Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Scarborough Fair (reprise)" | Best Music Video |
IMC Radio Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Scarborough Fair (Reprise)" | Best Folk Recording |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Caernarvon Levee (feat. Carrie McDowell)" | Best Americana Group |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES | Artist of the Year |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Winner | "Memphis (feat. Janis Ian)" | Best Americana Producer |
Elite Music Awards | 2024 | Second Place | MISSISSIPPI: AMERICAN STORIES | Album of the Year |
HMFA Holiday Music & Film Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "Joy to The World" | Best Gospel Christmas Song |
The Artists Music Guild | 2024 | Nominee | OUR COUNTRY, VOL. I | Album of the Year |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "Lord Knows I Cried" | Best Special Recording |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "Lord Knows I Cried" (dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) | Best Blues Song |
Elite Music Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "Memphis" (feat. Janis Ian) | Collaboration of the Year |
Elite Music Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "Lord Knows I Cried" | Producer of the Year |
HMFA Holiday Music & Film Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "All on Christmas Day" | Best Country Christmas Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "Mississippi: American Stories" | Album of the Year |
The Artists Music Guild | 2024 | Nominee | "Scarborough Fair (reprise)" | Music Video of the Year |
HMFA Holiday Music & Film Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "In The Bleak Midwinter" | Best Jazz Christmas Song |
Elite Music Awards | 2024 | Nominee | "Scarborough Fair (reprise)" | Best Music Video |
Akademia Awards | 2023 | Winner/Inductee | Lifetime Achievement | The Akademia Hall of Fame Award |
Akademia Awards | 2023 | Winner | "The Woman God Made For Me" | Best Country Song |
Radio Music Awards | 2023 | Winner | "The Woman God Made For Me" | Best Contemporary Christian Recording |
Radio Music Awards | 2023 | Winner | "The Woman God Made For Me" | Best Contemporary Christian Producer |
Mid-Atlantic Song Contest | 2023 | Silver Medal | "Cahokia Winds" (with Kevin Lucas) | Best Music Video |
Josie Music Awards | 2023 | Nominee | "All On Christmas Day" | Holiday Song of the Year |
Hollywood Ind. Music Awards | 2023 | Nominee | "Joy To The World" | Best Holiday Song |
Akademia Awards | 2023 | Grand Award Winner | THE CHRISTMAS HEART | Best Christian / Gospel Album |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Winner | “O Holy Night” | Best Contemporary Christian Artist |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Winner | “Joy To The World” | Recording of the Year |
Akademia Awards | 2022 | Winner | APPALACHIA: AMERICAN STORIES | Best Americana Album |
Radio Music Awards | 2022 | Winner | "Down To Hatchabee Road" | Best Americana Artist |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Winner | "Cahokia Winds" (with Kevin Lucas) | Best Video |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Winner | Lifetime Achievement | President's Award |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Winner | “Joy To The World” | Best Gospel Recording |
Global Music Awards | 2022 | Silver Medal | "Down To Hatchabee Road" | Best Music Video |
Global Music Awards | 2022 | Silver Medal | "Down To Hatchabee Road" | Best Americana Song |
Global Music Awards | 2022 | Silver Medal | "The Coal Comes Up" | Best Music Video |
Global Music Awards | 2022 | Silver Medal | "The Coal Comes Up" | Best Americana Song |
Unsigned Only Music Competition | 2022 | Semi-finalist | "Down To Hatchabee Road" | Best Americana Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Nominee | "Go Tell It On The Mountain" | Best Gospel Recording |
Marlin Awards | 2022 | Nominee | "In This Together" (Stephen John and Friends) | Outstanding Inspirational Recording Duo Group |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Nominee | "On This Day" | Best Country Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Nominee | “O Holy Night” | Best Contemporary Christian Recording |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Nominee | "All On Christmas Day” | Best Country Artist |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Nominee | “Silent Night” | Best Jazz Recording |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2022 | Nominee | “In The Bleak Midwinter” | Best Jazz Artist |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | 2022 | Nominee | "Cahokia Winds" (with Kevin Lucas) | Best Music Video |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2021 | Winner | "I Found Faith" | Best Gospel Recording |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2021 | Winner | "The Coal Comes Up" | Best Americana Video |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | 2021 | Winner | "Down To Hatchabee Road" | Best Americana Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2021 | Nominee | APPALACHIA: AMERICAN STORIES | Best Americana Album |
SAW Awards | 2021 | Honorable Mention | "Waiting For The Good Old Days Again" | Best COVID-19 Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2020 | Winner | “Way Down Low” | Best Folk Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2020 | Winner | Lifetime Achievement | Hall of Fame Inductee |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2020 | Winner | “Way Down Low” | Best Americana Songwriter |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2020 | Winner | “Way Down Low” | Best Americana Song |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2020 | Winner | "I See You" | Best Video under $5k |
International Songwriter Day | 2020 | Official Selection | "I See You" | Best Song |
Josie Awards | 2020 | Nominee | Artist of the Year | |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | 2020 | Nominee | “I Reckon” | Best Country Artist |
Josie Awards | 2020 | Nominee | Entertainer of the Year, Male | |
Josie Awards | 2020 | Nominee | OUR COUNTRY, VOL. I | EP of the Year, Country |
IMC Radio Music Awards | 2019 | Winner | "I Reckon" | Best Americana Artist |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2019 | Winner | "I Reckon" | Best Classic Country Artist |
Clouzine Awards | 2019 | Winner | "Always" (Wendy Loomis) | Best Christian Song |
NewSong Music/LEAF | 2019 | Nominee | Best Singer/Songwriter | |
AMG Heritage Awards | 2019 | Nominee | "Man Of Steel" | Song of the Year |
NewSong Music/LEAF | 2019 | Nominee | Best Music Performance and Songwriter | |
AMG Heritage Awards | 2019 | Nominee | Songwriter of the Year | |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2019 | Nominee | "Man Of Steel" | Best Classic Country Artist |
AMG Heritage Awards | 2019 | Nominee | Best New Artist of the Year | |
NewSong Music Awards | 2019 | Nominee | Best Songwriter | |
AMG Heritage Awards | 2018 | Nominee | Songwriter of the Year | |
AMG Heritage Awards | 2018 | Nominee | Male Vocalist of the Year | |
Indie Acoustic Project | 2018 | Finalist | DUST BOWL: AMERICAN STORIES | Best CD of 2017 |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2017 | Winner | Best Americana Artist | |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | 2017 | Winner | "Old Black Roller" | Best Americana/Folk/Acoustic Song |
The Grammys | 2017 | Winner | "Spoken at Midnight" (Ted Nash) | Certificate, Grammy Awards |
The Grammys | 2017 | Winner | PRESIDENTIAL SUITE (Ted Nash) | Certificate, Grammy Awards |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2017 | Winner | "Old Black Roller" | Best American Roots Song |
Josie Music Awards | 2017 | Nominee | Folk/Bluegrass/Americana Artist of the Year | |
USA Songwriting Competition | 2016 | Winner | SXSW Showcase Performer | |
Indie Music Channel Awards | 2016 | Winner | Best Folk Artist | |
Song Of The Year | 2016 | Semi-finalist | "You Don't Have To Love Me Back" | Best Song |
IMSTA Songwriting Competition | 2016 | Finalist | Best Songwriter | |
Connecticut Folk Festival Grassy Hill Songwriter Awards | 2016 | Finalist | Best Songwriter | |
Singer Universe | 2015 | Winner | "Your Fire" | Best Vocalist |
ASA Australian Songwriters Awards | 2015 | Finalist | "Your Fire" | Best Songwriter |
Unsigned Only | 2014 | Winner | Best Artist | |
Singer Universe | 2014 | Winner | "Old Black Roller" | Best Vocalist |
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