Loretta Lynn, Judy Collins, and Mike Scott of the Waterboys can be amongst these honored with particular awards on the 2023 UK Americana Awards Show. The occasion is ready for London’s Hackney Empire on January 26.
In the wake of her dying on the age of 90 in October, Lynn can be posthumously acknowledged with the Songwriter Legacy Award. Scott will obtain the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Collins the International equal. Both will carry out on the awards present, which may also comprise a multi-artist efficiency of Lynn’s signature “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”
These and all nominations for the 2023 awards had been introduced final evening (8) at an occasion at London membership Omeara. It additionally launched UK Americana Music Week, which returns to Hackney from January 23-26, culminating within the awards ceremony. Headline sponsors are the Alabama Tourism Department, Sweet Home Alabama, who additionally sponsor the UK’s Official Americana Chart.
“I’m surprised and very happy to be honored by the Americana Music Association UK,” mentioned Scott. “I’ve played music of American inspiration – roots, rock and roll, folk and blues – since I was a kid and country, soul and gospel since expanding my horizons in the 1980s, without ever considering myself or the Waterboys as an Americana act. Yet Americana has fuelled, inspired, and informed everything we’ve ever done. It is like a landmass I’ve been standing on the whole time, and I’m proud and honoured to consider our music part of it. Thankyou AMA-UK.”
‘Bringing new Americana artists to UK audiences’
Notes Collins: “The Americana Music Association UK does an incredible job bringing new Americana artists to UK audiences whereas persevering with to shine a light-weight on artists who already are established throughout the style. It’s an necessary function within the music group. I’m drastically honored be given the Lifetime Achievement Award and am wanting ahead to attending the convention in 2023 and listening to new music.“
Nickel Creek, the band who introduced bluegrass to a brand new technology from the early 2000s onwards, will obtain the International Trailblazer Award, whereas the Bob Harris Emerging Artist Award goes to impartial roots label Loose Records artists Hanging Stars. The Grassroots Award, which acknowledges an business particular person who has championed Americana music from the grassroots up, goes to BBC Radio Ulster broadcaster Ralph McLean.
The winner of Best-Selling Americana Album by a UK artist, introduced at the side of the Official Charts Company (OCC), is to be introduced in January. The 2023 occasion additionally provides a brand new, public-voted award, for UK Live Act of the Year.
The award nominations within the eight classes voted on by the AMA panel and members of the affiliation, are as follows:
UK Album of the Year
• Birds That Flew and Ships That Sailed by Passenger (Produced by Mike Rosenberg and Chris Vallejo)
• Blue Hours by Bear’s Den (Produced by Ian Grimble)
• Shining In The Half Light by Elles Bailey (Produced by Dan Weller)
• Superhuman by Ferris and Sylvester (Produced by Ryan Hadlock and Michael Rendall)
International Album of the Year
• In These Silent Days by Brandi Carlile (produced by Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings)
• Pohorylle by Margo Cilker (produced by Sera Cahoone)
• Raise The Roof by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (produced by T Bone Burnett)
• The Man From Waco by Charley Crockett (produced by Bruce Robison)
UK Song of the Year
• Car Crash by Hannah White (Written by Hannah White)
• Grace by Marcus Mumford (Written by Blake Mills and Marcus Mumford)
• Make It Romantic by Simeon Hammond Dallas (Written by Simeon Hammond Dallas)
• The Right Place by Danny George Wilson (written by Danny Wilson)
International Song of the Year
• I Don’t Really Care for You by CMAT (Written by Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson)
• Something within the Orange by Zach Bryan (Written by Zachary Lane Bryan)
• Take It Like A Man by Amanda Shires (Written by Amanda Shires and Lawrence Rothman)
• You’re Not Alone by Allison Russell feat. Brandi Carlile (Written by Allison Russell)
UK Artist of the Year
• Bear’s Den
• Elles Bailey
• Ferris and Sylvester
• Lady Nade
International Artist of the Year
• Allison Russell
• Brandi Carlile
• Margo Cilker
• The Dead South
UK Instrumentalist of the Year
• Holly Carter
• Joe Coombs
• Joe Wilkins
• Mark Lewis
UK Live Act of the Year
• Beans On Toast
• Elles Bailey
• Ferris & Sylvester
• Holy Moly & The Crackers
• Noble Jacks
• The Heavy Heavy