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Americana Gets The Blues: A Weekend at the AMA Conference

On Thursday night at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, “the mother church of country music,” the lead singers for the two biggest blues-rock bands of the 1970s were on stage together—Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and the Allman Brothers Band’s Gregg Allman.  read more

Americana Announces 2011 Festival & Conference Dates

The Americana Music Association has announced that its 12th Annual Festival & Conference will be held in Nashville Oct. 12-15....  read more

Rosanne Cash, Avett Brothers Win Americana Music Awards

The 9th annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards were handed out in Nashville’s celebrated Ryman Auditorium last night, honoring a selection of notable music greats....  read more

Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson's Handwritten Lyrics Featured in Nashville Exhibit

Rosanne Cash, The Fray, Michael McDonald and 45 more also featured in tonight's event...  read more

Buddy Miller, John Fogerty, Justin Townes Earle Amongst Notable Winners at Americana Music Awards

The 8th Annual Americana Music Awards, held Sept. 17 in Nashville, honored an array of music legends and up-and-comers, with Buddy Miller, John Fogerty, Justin Townes Earle and Sam Bush taking home awards....  read more

Americana Music Festival to Feature Buddy Miller, Those Darlins, Will Hoge, Sarah Borges, Many More

The Americana Music Association has just announced the lineup for its 2009 festival, to be held Sept. 16-19 at an array of Nashville venues. ...  read more

Industry Chat: Jed Hilly of the Americana Music Association

Readers of Paste have long noticed our affinity for a certain segment of the music world known as "Americana." For some music lovers, it's an epithet—for others, it's a sign of life. Long revered (and now defunct) magazine No Depression carried the torch for the genre and helped popularize the term. Ten years ago, an industry association was born to encourage development of the genre. Paste recently spoke with the executive director of the Americana Music Association, Jed Hilly. ...  read more

Gary Louris and Mark Olson perform at Americana Music fest

More of Louris meeting Olson As a general rule, in latter-day Jayhawks lineage Mark Olson has been the one playing stripped down, loose-limbed shows, while Gary Louris has hewed closer to pop hooks and full-band polish. And they’ve each done it without the other. But recently, they’ve dipped their toes into writing and playing together, and their new part-acoustic, part-ragged folk-rock duo album, Ready for the Flood, will soon be out overseas. Which means European audiences are getting a tour promoting the new album, while we have slim pickings on this side of the pond. (That will be remedied in...  read more

Plant & Krauss, Joan Baez, more win at Americana Awards

[Above: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant]Alison Krauss & Robert Plant—the roots-music queen and the former Led Zep banshee—pulled down Album of the Year and Duo/Group of the Year honors Thursday night at the Americana Music Awards, a loose and congenial affair held at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the so-called “mother church of country music.”...  read more

Americana royalty salutes Levon Helm

The Band deserves as much credit as anyone for inventing the country-rock subgenre we now know as Americana, so it made sense that this year’s Americana Music Association conference kicked off Wednesday night here in Nashville with a tribute to The Band’s drummer/singer Levon Helm. ...  read more