Country rebels The Dixie Chicks ruled this year’s Grammys with five wins, including the three biggies–Record, Song and Album of the Year. Also scoring well were Hip-Hop/R&B queen Mary J. Blige, alterna-funk-rock heroes The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and neo-soul-pop newcomers Gnarls Barkely with three Grammys each on Sunday (February 11th) during ceremonies at The Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The Dixie Chicks took both Record of the Year and Song of the Year honors for their unapologetic “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which also was named Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, while their release, “Taking the Long Way”, was Best Country Album and, at the end of the night, Album of the Year. All of this made producer Rick Rubin Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.

Blige won Best R&B Song and Female R&B Vocal Performance for “Be Without You,” and her acclaimed “The Breakthrough” was Top R&B album.

The Peppers won Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal and also Best Rock Song for “Dani California,” and the album, “Stadium Arcadium,” won Best Boxed Set or Special Limited Edition Package.

Gnarls Barkley took Best Alternative Music Album for “St. Elsehwere,” plus Best Urban/Alternative Performance and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the song of the summer 2006, “Crazy.”

Singer/guitar-slinger John Mayer won Pop Vocal Album for “Continuum” and Male Pop Vocal Performance for his social consciousness groove, “Waiting on the World to Change”. Former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, now a rising star of Country, was named Best New Artist.

Best Female Pop Vocal went to Christina Aguilera for “Ain’t No Other Man”; The Black Eyed Peas won Pop Group or Duo Performance for “My Humps”; and Best Pop Vocal Collaboration was old guard and older guard–Tony Bennet and Stevie Wonder on “For Once In My Life” from Bennett’s duets album last year.

Other wins included Justin Timberlake (battling the flu) scoring Best Dance Recording for “Sexy Back”; Bob Dylan, who was shut out from Best Album nomination status, did receive Best Solo Rock Vocal honors for “Someday Baby” off “Modern Times”, named Best Contemporary Folk Album, even though it was blues-rock, really. Bruce Springsteen also took two, his “Seeger Sessions” release named Best Traditional Folk album, and the documentary “Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run” best Long Form Music Video.

OK Go’s “treadmill hit”, “There It Goes Again”, won Short Form Music Video. The top Musical Album for Children was “Catch That Train” by Dan Zanes and Friends. Best Score Soundtrack Album went to veteran John Williams for his evocative work on “Memoirs of a Geisha”. Best Musical Show Album was “Jersey Boys” (that is, remakes of Four Seasons’s hits).

The complete list of winners can be found at Grammy.com