John Prine's winning streak continues at the Americana Music Association's annual awards ceremony in Nashville, though his two-year reign as Americana artist of the year ends.
John Prine, left, and Pat McLaughlin accept the Song of the Year Award for "Summer's End" at the Americana Honors & Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.
Prine, who had won artist of the year the previous two years and had battled health problems recently, was joined on stage by Bonnie Raitt for a stirring duet of “Angel from Montgomery,” the Prine song that became a show-stopper for both artists. In his first acceptance speech, Prine joked that he could use the speeches he wrote for the Grammys, where he was nominated but did not win.
Staples, who built a tour this year around her 80th birthday in July, was given the association’s first annual Inspiration Award, presented by television journalist John Seigenthaler on behalf of the Freedom Forum and the First Amendment Center, and Ernest “Rip” Patton, who protested segregation on interstate buses as a “freedom rider” during the civil rights movement in the early 1960s.
The married duo known as The War and Treaty, Michael and Tanya Trotter, were honored as emerging act of the year, largely on the strength of their acclaimed 2018 album “Healing Tide.”
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