Mavis Staples, Booker T Score GRAMMY Nods

525 Worldwide clients Mavis Staples and Booker T Jones have each been awarded Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Awards, Mavis (with the Staple Singers) in 2005 and Booker T (with the MGs) in 2007. Wednesday night, they showed they aren't about to stop there, as each was honored with nominations for the 52d Annual GRAMMY Awards, to be held January 31, 2010 in Los Angeles.

Booker T received two nominations for his April 2009 release Potato Hole, including Best Pop Instrumental Album. The track 'Warped Sister' from the album was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental. Potato Hole was Booker T's first new album in nearly two decades.

Mavis, a multiple past-nominee for duets and guest appearances, received her first-ever nomination for a solo project, as her November 2008 release Live: Hope at the Hideout (the first live concert release of her 50-plus year career) was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Mavis also has a track on the album O Happy Day, nominated for Best Traditional Gospel Album. She sings 'Waiting for My Child to Come Home' with Patty Griffin on that set.

Both Potato Hole and Live: Hope at the Hideout were released by ANTI- Records.

Trombone Shorty, a 525 client co-managed with The Rosebud Agency, also appears as a featured guest artist on Buckwheat Zydeco's album Lay Your Burden Down, nominated for Best Zydeco or Cajun Album.