Winners List, Links to: Audio, Reports, Press Releases, Photos + Billboard Article
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| Americana Music Association’s 12th Annual Honors
2013 CLICK to ENLARGE |
Folk
Alley and NPR Music returned to Nashville to present a webcast of the Americana Music Association’s 12th Annual Honors and Awards
ceremony presented by Nissan from historic Ryman Auditorium. on Wednesday,
Sept. 18, 2013.
The event,
hosted by Jim Lauderdale, included
performances by The McCrary Sisters (“Blowin’ in the Wind”), Robert
Hunter, Old Crow Medicine Show (“Wagon Wheel”), Dr. John, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Richard Thompson (“Good
Things Happen to Bad People,”), John
Fullbright, Shovels & Rope (“Birmingham”), Milk Carton Kids, JD McPherson, Mike Bub, Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison,
Holly Williams and Duane Eddy.
Original Buffalo Springfield members Stephen
Stills and Richie Furay also
came together to play the band’s iconic song “For What It’s Worth,” and
third-generation musician Holly Williams
offered a tribute to her late grandfather Hank Williams Sr.
Revered
Nashville songsmiths Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell took home Duo/Group
and Album of
the Year honors, while roots-rock newcomers Shovels & Rope, featuring Nashville native Cary Ann Hearst, won
Emerging Artist
and Song of the
Year awards.
The
Americana Honors & Awards house band led by Buddy Miller, included Don Was, Larry Campbell, Marco Giovino, John
Deaderick, Jim Hoke and the McCrary Sisters. Artists return to the stage to
perform "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" to close the event.
The
Americana Honors & Awards, aired live on AXS TV, NPR.org, Sirius/XM's "Outlaw Country" and
WSM. "Austin City Limits" will broadcast an edited special Nov. 23.
Voice of
America and Bob Harris of BBC2 will
broadcast overseas in the following weeks.
** Listen to a recording of the entire show (161
minutes), including performances by Shovels & Rope, Emmylou Harris &
Rodney Crowell, and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter at folkalley or npr.org
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| Americana Music Association’s 12th Annual Honors Montage - CLICK to ENLARGE |
AMA Honors &
Awards 2013: Winners
Album of the Year: “Old
Yellow Moon,” Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - Photo
(presented
by Rosanne Cash & Alejandro Escovedo)
Artist of the Year: Dwight
Yoakam (presented by Nicki Bluhm &
Sam Bush)
Duo Group of the Year: Emmylou
Harris & Rodney Crowell Photo
(presented
by Tift Merritt & Billy Bragg)
Song of the Year:
“Birmingham,” Shovels & Rope - Photo
(presented
by Joy Williams and Langhorne Slim - Photo)
Emerging Artist of the Year: Shovels
& Rope - Image
Instrumentalist of the Year: Larry
Campbell
(presented
by Jerry Douglas & Aoife O'Donovan - photo)
Trailblazer Award: Old
Crow Medicine Show (presented by actor Ed Helms - Photo
Spirit of Americana / Free Speech in Music
Award: Stephen Stills
(presented
by Ken Paulson and Richie Furay - Photo)
Lifetime Achievement for Instrumentalist: Duane
Eddy
(presented
by Bob Harris OBE - Photo)
Lifetime Achievement for Performance: Dr.
John (presented by Dan Auerbach)
Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriter: Robert
Hunter
President’s Award: Hank
Williams
(presented
by Ken Burns) accepted by Jett Williams and Holly Williams photo -
Lifetime Achievement Award for Executive: Chris
Strachwitz
(presented by Ry Cooder- photo)
Full listing of the 2013 Americana Music
Association Awards Nominees
Press Release: Stephen Stills, Richie Furay,
Ed Helms. Ken Burns join Americana Honors & Awards Show, Sept. 18
Reviews:
Nashville Scene.com Review: Americana Awards
and Honors Show at the Ryman, 9/18/13
The Telegraph - Emmylou Harris and Rodney
Crowell win two trophies at Americana Awards
Wall Street Journal When a Shelter Becomes a Home...The Americana Music Association's
annual awards show Wednesday celebrates a young but growing genre that was once
a refuge for roots music veterans.....
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| Americana Music Association’s 12th Annual Honors Red Carpet Montage - CLICK to ENLARGE |
Photo's
The Tennessean Gallery photos: Americana Honors
& Awards red carpet 2013
The Tennessean Gallery photos: Americana Honors
& Awards 2013
Khou.com Gallery photos (51 pic)
Getty Images Search Gallery
Lennon Stella and Maisy Stella ("Maddie and
Daphne" on the ABC series Nashville) perform live 12th Annual Americana
Music Honors And Awards Ceremony - Photo
BBC
Radio's Bob Harris presents Duane Eddy with the Lifetime
Achievement for Instrumentalist - Photo - Photo
Red Carpet
Suzy
Bogguss, Jerry Douglas and Martina McBride - Photo
Nicki
Bluhm - Photo
Tim Bluhm
and Nicki Bluhm (Indie country/folk duo) - Photo
Rodney
Crowell, Emmy Lou Harris and Brian Ahern - Photo
Charles
Esten (“Deacon” from ABC series Nashville) - Photo
Jed Hilly
and Ed Helms - Photo
Martina
McBride - Photo
Aoife
O'Donovan - Photo
Lennon
Stella and Maisy Stella ("Maddie and Daphne" on the ABC series
Nashville) - ** Photo
Maisy
Stella, Lennon Stella & Charles Esten - ** Photo
Joy
Williams & the Americana Music Association's Jed Hilly - Photo
BBC
Radio's Bob Harris and Holly Williams - Photo
Bruce
Robison and Kelly Willis - Photo
Holly
Williams and BBC Radio's Bob Harris - Photo
Joy
Williams - Photo
Tweets
FolkAlley.com
@FolkAlley #Americanafest Stephen Stills & Richie Furay - ROCKIN' "For
What It's Worth" !! Yeah!!!
Americana Music
@AmericanaFest Congratulations to @shovelsandrope, the 2013 winners of Emerging
Artist of the year! @TheRyman #americanafest
Clare Bowen @clarembee @AmericanaFest
at @TheRyman. Now THAT'S music. pic.twitter.com/h0yDFXVuX3
Bob Harris Country
@BHarrisCountry And of course we bow down to @crowmedicine @WhisperingBob #americanafest http://twitpic.com/de49i5
Bob Harris Country
@BHarrisCountry What a night! @WhisperingBob with Stephen Stills everyone!
#americanafest http://twitpic.com/de495s
Martina McBride
@martinamcbride Such an AMAZING night of music tonight at the @AmericanaFest.
Inspiring and beautiful performances. So happy to be there!
JD McPherson
@jdmcphersonjr Had a blast yesterday at @AmericanaFest , so good to see my
Oklahoma compadre @johnrfullbright and many other giants perform!
Dwight Yoakam
@DwightYoakam Thank you to @AmericanaFest for the enormous honor you have given
me & 3 Pears. I am humbled by having been given Artist of The Year Award.
Related Article:
Billboard:
When Country Becomes Americana
What’s a country artist to do when
the hits stop coming?
In
another era, the options were to retire a la Barbara Mandrell or to keep
playing the oldies in a scaled-down manner, as did the subject of John Anderson’s
“Would You Catch a Falling Star.”
The new
option is to experiment a little, maintain some uncertain tie to roots music
and rebrand as an Americana artist.
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| Rodney & Emmylou Click to enlarge (Getty Photo) |
Emmylou Harris and Dwight Yoakam, both of whom commanded
attention from mainstream country radio with adventurous recordings earlier in
their careers, occupy two of the four artist of the year slots on the ballot
for this year’s American Music Honors & Awards, which will be presented
Sept. 18 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
Harris and Rodney Crowell, who scored five No. 1 country singles with his 1988
album “Diamonds & Dirt”, are also up for Americana album for Old Yellow
Moon.
It’s
hardly the first time the Americana Music Assn. embraced a country act on the
backside of a successful commercial run. Johnny
Cash received three posthumous Americana awards in 2003 for the work he did
with producer Rick Rubin. Loretta Lynn was a double-winner the next year after working
with Jack White. Rosanne Cash likewise earned an album of the year trophy in
2010 for The List.
Not that
every country artist could segue into Americana. It’s hard to imagine the genre
embracing Moe Bandy, Earl Thomas Conley or SHeDAISY.
It’s sort
of like criminology—one has to prove intent. In the case of
Americana, it’s the intent to risk commercial reputation in favor of artistic pursuit.
“I look at the Americana genre,
and I think it’s really an art form compared with commercial art,”
Americana Assn. executive director Jed Hilly says. “I think that the country music genre as we
know it today has moved into more of the commercial art form. It’s not a
criticism, it’s just a fact”.
“The artists in the Americana world, they really work like a
sculptor, or a painter or an artist. They’re reaching back into
history, in some ways, to get their inspiration. And there’s no question in my
mind that Dwight, Emmy, they studied the masters, the same way Picasso studied
the masters. They’re inspired by Charlie Louvin, they’re inspired by Hank
Williams. That’s my take on why they live in the Americana genre.”
Mirriam-Webster
officially added Americana to the dictionary in 2011, defining it as “a genre
of American music having roots in early folk and country music.” Americana
likewise embraces other rootsy forms—blues, black gospel and bluegrass, for
example—but it’s still somewhat murky to many outsiders, despite Hilly’s
insistence otherwise.
Yoakam’s presence in the category
adds to the confusion. Warner Music Nashville never worked his
critically lauded 2012 album 3 Pears to country radio (he is, reportedly, no
longer on the label), and there’s reason to believe it never would have
received much attention at mainstream radio.
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| Jed Hilly |
Yet if
you strip away the imaging and marketing, and consider 3 Pears solely on its
sonic merits, it’s not unlikely that his raucous brand of country could be
accepted by the actual listener right alongside Jason Aldean and Florida
Georgia Line.
Americana
generally distances itself from such mainstream acts, though it welcomed Dierks Bentley to its stage when he
worked his bluegrass/alt-country album Up on the Ridge. And it’s not entirely
impossible other one-off forays outside the mainstream would be accepted. Hilly
hasn’t heard Alan Jackson’s The Bluegrass Album and could only react to George
Strait’s recent hint that a Western swing-style album may be in his future.
“Great, if Alan
Jackson is exploring the roots,” Hilly says. “Kudos to him, kudos to George, for pushing
the envelope. That’s what an artist does.” There’s that art thing
again. Part of the reason Americana remains a little hazy—who decides whether the
primary motivation is art or commerce?
Even the
artist in question may not know the answer.
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