Which album won the first Grammy for Best Country Album in 1965?

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Roger Miller’s Dang Me/Chug-A-Lug won the first Grammy Award for Best Country Album in 1965.

The album combined two successful Roger Miller releases, Dang Me and Chug-A-Lug, and represented the witty, conversational country style that made Miller one of Nashville’s most distinctive singers and songwriters. The award came when the Grammys were still developing their genre album categories.

The category was initially presented as Best Country & Western Album. Its name later changed as the Recording Academy’s terminology shifted from “country and western” to the shorter “country.”

This result is easy to mix up with Miller’s other Grammy success. He also won major awards for individual songs, including “Dang Me,” but this question concerns the inaugural album category and its combined title.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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