The Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album has been an award category at the annual

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. The award was first approved by the board of trustees of the Grammy Awards in June 2014.Grammy.com, 12 June 2014
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, the award was introduced to "provide a category for traditional Southern gospel and other "roots" gospel albums as both a protector of the heritage of this music and an acknowledgement of the growing interest and support of these genres." It is similar to the Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album category which was active from 1991 to 2011. The category is open for solo artists, duos, groups and other collaborations and is for albums only. In the Gospel genre field, it will sit with other categories such as

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. The Grammy is awarded to the performer(s) on the winning recording. If there is no identifiable artist (e.g. in soundtrack or ''various artist'' albums), the award is given to the (compilation) producer(s).

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Artists with multiple nominations

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* Karen Peck and New River

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Recipients

Artists with multiple nominations

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