Bowie, Haggard among honorees

David Bowie, Cream, Merle Haggard, Robert Johnson, Jessye Norman, Richard Pryor and the Weavers have been named recipients of the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors “lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium,” the academy said Tuesday.

Record executive Chris Blackwell, country record producer Owen Bradley and recording engineer Al Schmitt will receive the Trustees Award, which recognizes non-performers, and Bell Labs/Western Electric and Tom Dowd have been named recipients of the Technical Grammy Award.

-- Richard Cromelin