Bragg Creek native Shawn Everret won the Grammy award for Best Engineered Album, Non Classical, at Monday night's award show.

The award was for Everret and head engineer Bob Ludwig's work on the Alabama Shakes album Sound and Colour.

He says it is something you don't think about and then when it happens, you go "Wow, you can actually win one of these."
 
"It seems completely foreign until it happens and then it comes crashing down into your own reality," Everret says.

Everret says Sound and Colour was worked on in two week intervals where they would head to Nashville and work for two weeks, then take a break and go work on something else.

It took around seven months to record the album on that schedule and he says it took him around another month to mix everything together.

"That was one of the first records I worked on that everyone involved was really cool with everyone taking their time to do it the way that we wanted to do it, so that by the time that it left our hands, it kind of felt like we had gone over it so much that we were pretty excited about what we had made."

Everret says Sound and Colour is one of the only albums he has worked on that he can listen to and not feel like something was left out or could be tweaked.

He is also nominated for this year's Juno Awards Engineer of the Year award for "Don't Wanna Fight" and "All Your Love" from the same album.

Everret says being nominated for a Juno is an honour.

"Growing up you watch the Junos, and being a musician you would say it would be rad if I could win a Juno, and now it is kind of cool to get to come back and go to the show, hang out and maybe win," Everret says.

He says with big Canadian artists like The Weeknd, Justin Bieber and Drake being at the Grammys it almost felt like being at the Junos.