Americana Music Association

8th Annual American Music Festival & Conference

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant Robert Plant and Alison Krauss combined their distinctive and celebrated voices on 2007’s Raising Sand, produced by T-Bone Burnett and released on Rounder Records. The unique selection of songs showcases the otherworldly combination of Plant and Krauss’ vocals supported by a superb band. The Grammy-nominated Raising Sand debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, and the duo will be on tour in the UK in May.

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Dwight Yoakam Grammy-winning artist Dwight Yoakam, also a noted actor, recorded his latest album as a tribute to his friend, the late Buck Owens. Dwight Sings Buck features fifteen of Owens’ greatest songs, lovingly reimagined by Yoakam. Yoakam has sold more than 23 million albums worldwide and will appear at the Stagecoach festival in May.

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John Fogerty After a 30-year battle with his former label over his catalog, the former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty released the critically acclaimed Revival in October. Revival, his first album of new material in years, earned the Songwriters Hall of Fame member yet another Grammy nomination.

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Steve Earle Steve Earle’s latest, Washington Square Serenade, is an ode to the ‘60s-era Greenwich Village, a neighborhood that Earle now calls home. Earle recorded the Folk/Americana Grammy-nominated Serenade at Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios, and while the album contains Earle’s trademark unapologetically political songs, this is a much more personal album, including a duet with wife Allison Moorer. Earle is currently on tour throughout the UK and Europe, and will hit North America in early spring.

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Levon Helm “Levon represents everything in American music that appeals to me,” says studio ace Larry Campbell. “All genres within what is called Americana—rock ’n’ roll, blues, country, bluegrass, old-time music and soul—he can do with authority. Levon starts singing it and you believe it.” Check out Helm’s Grammy-nominated Dirt Farmer; produced by Campbell, this utterly timeless, altogether mesmerizing album is Levon’s first solo studio recording in a quarter century.

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Levon Helm, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant Take Top Honors at 7th Annual Americana Music Honors & Awards show

Levon Helm and Alison Krauss & Robert Plant were among the winners at the Americana Music Association's 7^th Annual Honors & Awards show at Nashville's Historic Ryman Auditorium. Appearing at the festivities to pick up two awards for their critically-acclaimed Raising Sand, Krauss and Plant won Album of the Year and Duo/Group of the Year.

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2008 Americana Music Festival features stellar lineup of artists

The Americana Music Association's performance lineup for the 2008 Americana Music Festival included a remarkable array of artists. Among them were Glen Campbell, Raul Malo, Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters, Ben Sollee, Diana Jones, O'Death, Luke Doucet & Melissa McClelland.

Five downtown Nashville venues, including The Mercy Lounge, The Cannery Ballroom, 3^rd & Lindsley, The Station Inn and The Basement, hosted the showcases from Wed. Sept. 17^th through Sat. Sept. 20^th.

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