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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Friday, May 30th DEADLINE for Showcase Submissions

If you, or the artists you represent, would like to be considered for a showcase at the AMA Music Festival, we need to hear from you NOW!

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Americana Honors John Hiatt

John Hiatt to receive Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at the Honors & Awards show at the Historic Ryman Auditorium on September 18th

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Americana at Tin Pan South

Americana Salutes legendary designer Manuel with "Roots, Boots and Manuel Suits"

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Americana Back at Antone's

The Americana Music Association
featured
Joe Ely, Buddy Miller
and some very special guests
at our annual SXSW showcase
at this Historic venue!

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Americana at the Grammy's

Jim Lauderdale, Charlie Louvin and Lucinda Williams perform at post show party!

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