Check out NPR Music‘s terrific memoriam of important musicians lost in 2009.

One of our favorite annual pastimes is reading Roger Angell’s humorous rhymes of the holidays-soon-departed. Angell is also one of America’s best baseball writers.

We’d like to extend our congratulations to many artists on the Songlines roster this year who have been nominated for Grammys (and the clients who represent them)!

Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King (RCA) — Album of the Year / Best Rock Album

Rosanne Cash and Bruce Springsteen, “Sea of Heartbreak” (Manhattan) — Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

Booker T. Jones, Potato Hole (Anti-) — Best Pop Instrumental Album

Bob Dylan, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” (Columbia) — Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

Coldplay, “Life in Technicolor II” (Capitol) — Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals / Best Short Form Music Video

Booker T. Jones, “Warped Sister” (Anti-) — Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Pearl Jam, “The Fixer” (Monkeywrench) — Best Rock Song

Depeche Mode, Sounds of the Universe (Capitol) — Best Alternative Music Album

The Greencards, “The Crystal Merchant” (Sugar Hill) — Best Country Instrumental Performance

Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux) — Best Americana Album

Bob Dylan, Together Through Life (Columbia) — Best Americana Album

Levon Helm, Electric Dirt (Vanguard) — Best Americana Album

Loudon Wainwright III, High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2nd Story Sound) — Best Traditional Folk Album

Neko Case, Middle Cyclone (Anti-) — Best Contemporary Folk Album / Best Recording Package

Depech Mode, “Wrong” (Capitol) — Best Short Form Music Video