Congratulations to Jason Isbell for sweeping Top Honors @ Americana Music Festival

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Jason Isbell sweeps 2014 Americana Music Awards


Jason Isbell swept every category he was nominated in, taking home three Americana Music Awards on Wednesday night.
September 18, 2014

On a night that was dedicated to celebrating the music of Mississippi, it was an Alabama native who ruled the 2014 Americana Music Awards Wednesday night at The Ryman Auditorium. Jason Isbell took home the trophy in every category he was nominated in, three of the six awards total. Isbell won Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year by the end of the night.

Jason Isbell came into the Americana Music Awards show tied with Rosanne Cash and Robert Ellis at three nominations each. But neither Ellis nor Cash was able to dent the momentum Isbell has built up over the last year in support of his 2013 album “Southeastern.” The album showed up in numerous Album of the Year lists and broke Isbell, not so long ago an Emerging Artist nominee, into the mainstream in a big way. In addition to Cash and Ellis in all three categories, Isbell bested Rodney Crowell for Artist of the Year, Sarah Jarosz’s “Build Me Up From Bones” for Album of the Year, and Patty Griffin’s “Ohio” for Song of the Year, winning for his “Cover Me Up.”

Fortunately for the rest of the Americana music making world, Isbell was not nominated in the other three categories, leaving Instrumentalist of the Year, Duo/Group of the Year, and Emerging Act of the Year wide open. In the Instrumentalist of the Year race, fan favorite Buddy Miller bested Larry Campbell, Fats Kaplin, and Bryan Sutton.

The Emerging Act of the Year has always been a place to showcase Americana’s youth movement and this year’s nominees showed the genre’s diversity. In the end, fast rising star Sturgill Simpson took home the prize over Hurray for the Riff Raff, Parker Millsap, Valerie June, and St. Paul & the Broken Bones. Simpson has been the hottest thing in Americana in 2014, with his “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music” pushing genre boundaries in a way that was obviously appreciated by the voting members.

more at link: http://www.examiner.com/article/jason-isbell-sweeps-2014-americana-music-awards

[alarimer]

1. That is a great, great album

I also love St. Paul and the Broken Bones. That guy can sing like he's channeling Sam Cooke.

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2. indeed, all true =

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[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. St. Paul and the Broken Bones...

WOA! I mean W. O. A. EXCLAMATION POINT! ELEVENS!!

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7. yeah, they really do have That Sound, don't they.

Nashville was the place to be this last week.

[cemaphonic]

3. He's a great songwriter and performer

This is my wife's favorite song:

Sturgill Simpson does seem to be on a roll, I just heard of him a few months ago, and now he's turning up all over the place.

And a lifetime achievement award for Taj Mahal! Sounds like a fun night.

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4. Nashville is the place to be this week, for real.

Sturgill on Letterman (this is one reason I love Letterman and Paul they introduce new acts/good music to a National Stage.

oh yeah, DRIVE BY TRUCKERS !!!

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5. Sons of Bill are playing tonight, I think. Would like to see these guys Live