Best Americana album

• Jackson Browne - Downhill From Everywhere
• John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band - Leftover Feelings
• Los Lobos – Native Sons (Pemenang)
• Allison Russell - Outside Child
• Yola - Stand for Myself

Best contemporary blues album

• The Black Keys featuring Eric Deaton and Kenny Brown – Delta Kream
• Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea
• Shemekia Copeland – Uncivil War
• Steve Cropper – Fire It Up
• Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – 662 (Pemenang)

Best traditional blues album

• Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years of Blues
• Blues Traveler – Traveler’s Blues
• Cedric Burnside – I Be Trying (Pemenang)
• Guy Davis – Be Ready When I Call You
• Kim Wilson – Take Me Back

Best bluegrass album

• Billy Strings - Renewal
• Béla Fleck – My Bluegrass Heart (Pemenang)
• The Infamous Stringdusters - A Tribute to Bill Monroe
• Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
• Rhonda Vincent - Music Is What I See

Best folk album

• Mary Chapin Carpenter - One Night Lonely (Live)
• Tyler Childers - Long Violent History
• Madison Cunningham - Wednesday (Extended Edition)
• Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – They’re Calling Me Home (Pemenang)
• Sarah Jarosz - Blue Heron Suite

Best reggae album

• Etana - Pamoja
• Gramps Morgan - Positive Vibration
• Sean Paul - Live N Livin
• Jesse Royal - Royal
• Soja – Beauty in the Silence (Pemenang)
• Spice - 10

Best jazz vocal album

• The Baylor Project – Generations
• Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter – SuperBlue
• Nnenna Freelon – Time Traveler
• Gretchen Parlato – Flor
• Esperanza Spalding – Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Pemenang)

Best jazz instrumental album

• Jon Batiste - Jazz Selections: Music From and Inspired by Soul
• Terence Blanchard Featuring The E Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet - Absence
• Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Skyline (Pemenang)
• Chick Corea, John Patitucci and Dave Weckl - Akoustic Band Live
• Pat Metheny - Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)

Best Latin jazz album

• Eliane Elias With Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés – Mirror Mirror (Pemenang)
• Carlos Henriquez – The South Bronx Story
• Arturo O’Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra – Virtual Birdland
• Dafnis Prieto Sextet – Transparency
• Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo – El Arte del Bolero

Best new age album

• Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster and Tom Eaton - Brothers
• Stewart Copeland and Ricky Kej - Divine Tides (Pemenang)
• Wouter Kellerman and David Arkenstone - Pangaea
• Opium Moon - Night + Day
• Laura Sullivan - Pieces of Forever

Best global music album

• Rocky Dawuni - Voice of Bunbon Vol. 1.
• Daniel Ho & Friends - East West Players Presents: Daniel Ho & Friends Live in Concert
• Angélique Kidjo - Mother Nature (Pemenang)
• Femi Kuti, Made Kuti - Legacy +
• Wizkid - Made in Lagos: Deluxe Edition

Best global music performance

• Arooj Aftab – Mohabbat (Pemenang)
• Angélique Kidjo and Burna Boy – Do Yourself
• Femi Kuti – Pà Pá Pà
• Yo-Yo Ma and Angélique Kidjo – Blewu
• Wizkid featuring Tems – Essence

Best regional Mexican music album

• Aida Cuevas – Antología de la Musica Ranchera, Vol. 2
• Vicente Fernández – A Mis 80’s (Pemenang)
• Mon Laferte – Seis
• Natalia Lafourcade – Un Canto por México, Vol. II
• Christian Nodal – Ayayay! (Súper Deluxe)

Best gospel album

• Jekalyn Carr – Changing Your Story
• Tasha Cobbs Leonard – Royalty: Live at the Ryman
• Maverick City Music – Jubilee: Juneteenth Edition
• Jonathan McReynolds and Mali Music – Jonny X Mali: Live in LA
• CeCe Winans – Believe for It (Pemenang)