Singer Beth Hart and guitarist Joe Bonamassa were nominated for Seesaw, their second album as a duo. It's one of two albums that Hart released in 2013 (the other being her solo effort, Bang Bang Boom Boom). A few years ago, the idea that she would have two albums and a shot at a GRAMMY would have been unlikely at best. Hart was an up-and-coming singer-songwriter in the '90s, headlining Lollapalooza's second stage back when it was summer tour and not one of Chicago's biggest tourist attractions. She had a hit single in 1999 with "L.A. Song (Out Of This Town)", a staple on adult contemporary radio that year.

And then things went bad, as they often do in this business. Drugs, alcohol and a (then-) unmedicated bipolar disorder ran her career into the ground. A lackluster performance on Leno led to her losing her record deal, and things got worse even from there.

In a conversation with Radio.com last year, Hart described how she came back from the abyss. "At some point, instead of me dying or living on the street, there was something in me that said you've got to fight back, you've got to get some help," she said. "That wouldn't have happened without my husband [her former road manager, Scott Guetzkow]. But music was over for me. I had no record deal, no touring, no nothing, I couldn't leave the house, I had agoraphobia. But after a year and a half of therapy� I called my manager and said I really want to start working again. This was in 2001 or so."

She released a new album Leave A Light On in 2003, and offers starting coming in from concert promoters in Europe. "I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm gonna get a second chance,'" she recalls. "And then we started working a lot, and that's where I've been for the last ten years."

It took a while before she even attempted performing stateside again. "I still was terrified to come here, even though I live here," she said. "It was like, 'Oh my God, I'll become a drug addict again, I'll freak out again if I'm in the United States.'

"And then a couple of years ago, something switched in my brain where I thought, 'Bull****, I'm a human being, things happen.' Could it happen again? Sure, it could happen again. But why would that keep me from at least trying. Why? The next thing I know, I had a [record] deal for the States, and we're putting Bang Bang Boom Boom out here. If nothing else comes from it, just that story right there has brought me so much joy and healing. I can't complain about one thing."