MUMBAI: One wonders if A R Rahman is on an award piling spree this year.

This time it's the 'Grassroot Grammy' held in the US where he was nominated with another music icon from the South, Ilayaraja. The oscar winning musician bagged the prize for his soundtrack in the Tamil film "Godfather" in the 'Best Indian album' category at the 'Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Awards' held this year in Nashville, US on 29 August. Bangla band 'Krosswindz' were among others nominated in the category.

Rahman also won the third place in the 'Best Indian Song' category for 'Innisai' (Radio Mix) from "Godfather" while his 'Illamai' was fifth in the same category. Whereas, Ilyaraja's "Music Journey: Live in Italy" stood third in the 'Best Indian album' category. Classical music also received the recognition after Shweta Jhaveri's "Avishkar" clinched the first position in the 'Indian Classical and Traditional Album' category.

Just Plain Folks Music Awards is an international, large-scale, non-profit music awards programme hosted by the Just Plain Folks organisation to recognise the music made by the other 98 per cent of the music world often ignored by the mainstream televised music awards shows.... This year, Just Plain Awards received 42,000 albums and 5,60,000 songs as entries from all over the world. The winners of the awards were announced in Nashville, US on 29 August,2009.