In 2021, McKenna won her third Best Country Song Grammy for co-writing “Crowded Table,” performed by the Highwomen, with Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby. She also won back-to-back Grammys for Best Country Song: for “Girl Crush,” performed by Little Big Town, in 2016 and “Humble and Kind,” performed by Tim McGraw, in 2017. In 2017, McKenna became the first woman to win the Academy of Country Music’s Songwriter of the Year award and the first woman to win the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year award two years in a row. This year, she was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Song for co-writing “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault),” performed by Taylor Swift. In addition to her career as a solo artist, McKenna continues to enjoy success as one of the music industry’s most in-demand songwriters.
McKenna’s 2016 album, The Bird & The Rifle, was nominated for three Grammy awards as well as three Americana Music Association awards. Club, the Washington Post and Rolling Stone. Her previous album, The Tree (2018), was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2019 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards and received widespread critical acclaim, including landing on “Best of 2018” lists by Entertainment Weekly, Paste, Slate, The A.V.
On her latest release, The Balladeer (2020), Lori McKenna offers her most uplifting and uptempo album in a catalog that spans more than 20 years.
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