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Americana Music Festival on PBS this weekend

Ry Cooder at the Americana music Honors and Awards show

Ry Cooder at the Americana Music Honors and Awards show

The Americana Music Association’s Honors and Award show at the Ryman Auditorium is one of our favorite events of the year, and highlights from the September show  will be shared with a national audience on a special edition of Austin City Limits that begins airing Nov. 22. Performers include Robert Plant, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Rosanne Cash and Flaco Jimenez.

It’s no easy task to distill the best moments of a nearly three-hour event, but the ACL   emphasis is on the music and not the awards. Here’s the setlist shared by the Americana Music Association:
  • Rosanne Cash – “A Feather’s Not A Bird”
  • Parker Millsap – “Truck Stop Gospel”
  • Loretta Lynn – “Coal Miner’s Daughter”
  • The Milk Carton Kids – “Snake Eyes”
  • Buddy Miller  and Jim Lauderdale with the McCrary Sisters – “You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover”
  • Flaco Jiménez – “Ingrato Amor”
  • Jackson Browne – “Long Way Around”
  • St. Paul & The Broken Bones – “Call Me”
  • Valerie June – “You Can’t Be Told”
  • Patty Griffin and Robert Plant – “Ohio”
  • Taj Mahal – “Statesboro Blues”
  • Jason Isbell – “Cover Me Up”
  • Sturgill Simpson – “Life Of Sin”

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Holly Williams, BR5-49 added to festival

ama_logo_button_redThe Americana Music Association has announced a third wave of artists for its upcoming festival and conference in Nashville, including Aaron Lee Tasjan, BR5-49, Holly Williams, Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons, Luther Dickinson, Michaela Anne, Paul Burch, Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band.

BR5-49 has widely been credited as the musical catalyst that helped turn around Nashville’s once-decaying Lower Broadway in the ’90s, and paved the way for the city’s current vibrant music scene.

Holly Williams, another Nashville resident, is the granddaughter of Hank Williams and daughter of Hank Jr.

You’ll find the full schedule for the Sept. 17-21 festival here.