Jason Isbell would be the main nominee for this yr’s Americana Music Association’s Honors and Awards present Wednesday evening, however the four-time nominee faces a robust problem from a number of feminine nominees aiming so as to add extra variety to the style.
Isbell is the only real male nominee going up in opposition to Brandi Carlile, Mary Gauthier and Margo Price for album of the yr, and can be dealing with Carlile, Price and Lee Ann Womack within the music of the yr class. Although Isbell’s already earned two Grammys this yr for his album “The Nashville Sound,” the power of the feminine artists could also be overwhelming this yr.
The hard-rocking nation singer Price, who gained rising artist on the Americana Awards in 2016, has turn out to be a must-see act on the pageant circuit, whereas Carlile’s album, “By the Way, I Forgive You,” has earned rave critiques from critics. Gauthier’s “Rifles and Rosary Beads” was a ardour venture created in collaboration with navy veterans and their households, and Womack’s music, “All the Trouble,” proves that she stays within the high tier of nation vocalists.
Carlile and Price are additionally nominated with Isbell and people icon John Prine for artist of the yr, which Prine gained final yr.
Buddy Guy, Irma Thomas and ok.d. lang are all receiving lifetime achievement honors and can carry out at Wednesday’s present on the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Rosanne Cash will obtain the “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech award and also will carry out.
All of the main nominees are scheduled to carry out throughout the present, together with Isbell, Carlile, Price, Prine and Gauthier. Acoustic duo The Milk Carton Kids will host the present, changing longtime host Jim Lauderdale.
The present might be watched on-line at NPRMusic.org.
