{"id":851249,"date":"2026-09-17T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851249\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:56:09","slug":"molly-tuttle-brandi-carlile-top-americana-awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851249\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Tuttle, Brandi Carlile Top Americana Awards Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMolly Tuttle<\/a>, Brandi Carlile<\/a> and Tyler Childers were among the big winners at Wednesday night\u2019s (Sept. 16) 25th annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, held at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium.<\/p>\n

\n\tTuttle, who released the pop-inflected album<\/a> So Long Little Miss Sunshine earlier this year, picked up her first artist of the year win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am shocked, so honored to just see my name up there with musical heroes,\u201d Tuttle said, while praising how Americana music and the AMA \u201cbrings us together, all these different styles of music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe evening opened in a mighty fashion, as Chris Stapleton joined The Heartbreakers to launch the show with renditions of classics like \u201cAmerican Girl,\u201d \u201cYou Wreck Me\u201d and \u201cBreakdown.\u201d The Heartbreakers gave their first performance together since 2017, as they and the late Tom Petty were honored during ceremony with the lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt heals and makes you feel good and makes you wanna drive too fast and it makes you wanna play music\u2013that\u2019s what it did for me,\u201d Stapleton said of the group\u2019s music catalog while presenting the lifetime achievement association to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty\u2019s daughter Adria Petty accepted the accolade.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey created defiant, hopeful music,\u201d Petty said of the music the group made, adding of Tom Petty, \u201cHe didn\u2019t care that much for the music industry\u2026but he cared about the music community with his whole heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe celebration also honored Robert Plant and the late Dolly Parton with the lifetime achievement award. Buddy Miller feted Plant, who then took the stage and thrilled the crowd with a mini-set including \u201cAngel Dance\u201d and a rendition of the Black American gospel song \u201cSatan Your Kingdom Must Come Down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s Americana Honors & Awards also came just weeks after the passing of one of the evening\u2019s honorees, lifetime achievement award honoree Dolly Parton, who died<\/a> on Aug. 25 at age 80.<\/p>\n

\n\tEmmylou Harris, who worked with Parton and Linda Ronstadt on 1987\u2019s Trio and 1989\u2019s Trio II, and had a top 5 country hit in 1977 with the Parton-written song \u201cTo Daddy,\u201d took the stage to honor her musical colleague. Harris\u2019 comments were followed by a video acceptance speech that Parton had filmed prior to her passing.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so honored to receive the lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Association,\u201d Parton said in the video. \u201cI mean, roots music, what is now called Americana Music, is what I grew up playing back in the Smoky Mountains. It\u2019s that same music that drew me back to East Tennessee back in 1997, to write and record my album Hungry Again. That project really opened the door to a series of bluegrass and acoustic albums that changed the course of my career in so many ways. And new fans discovered these albums, new Americana music communities embraced them, and now, looking back at it all, I see this era of my career as a musical renaissance of sorts. And I want to thank everybody at the AMA for recognizing me with this award. It\u2019s a great honor, truly, and just know that I will always love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrandi Carlile and I\u2019m With Her then joined forces to honor Parton with a rendition of Parton\u2019s \u201cCoat of Many Colors,\u201d drawing a standing ovation from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tHosted by The Milk Carton Kids, some of the evening\u2019s other top performances included Boy Golden\u2019s potent performance of \u201cSuffer,\u201d Kashus Culpepper\u2019s rugged country-soul on \u201cJenni,\u201d and Mon Rovia\u2019s performance of \u201cHeavy Foot.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMolly Tuttle and Ketch Secor joined forces for a rendition of Tuttle\u2019s \u201cRosalee.\u201d Margo Price performed the rugged and soaring \u201cHard Headed Woman\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Let The Bastards Get You Down,\u201d while I\u2019m With Her performed \u201cWild and Clear and Blue.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tJesse Welles, wielding a guitar, harmonica and razor-sharp lyrics, brought the crowd to its feet with \u201cThe Nerd Reich,\u201d while Carlile turned in a powerful, commanding performance of \u201cReturning To Myself,\u201d joined by Sista Strings. <\/p>\n

\n\tBernie Taupin presented the song of the year honor to Carlile for her song \u201cReturning to Myself,\u201d and told the crowd, \u201cAmericana is the heart of American music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout the evening, Buddy Miller led the Americana All-Star Band, featuring Don Was, Larry Campbell, Fred Eltringham, Jen Gunderman, Jim Hoke, Jerry Pentecost and the McCrary Sisters.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe evening continued to offer tributes to essential artists in the Americana Music community who passed away over the past year. The late Todd Snider was remembered and celebrated by a performance of \u201cPlay a Train Song\u201d by Hayes Carll and Elizabeth Cook. The evening concluded with a multi-artist tribute to The Mavericks\u2019 Raul Malo with \u201cDance The Night Away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the full list of winners of the 25th annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony below:<\/p>\n

\tAlbum of the year:<\/p>\n

\n\tWinner: Snipe Hunter, Tyler Childers; Produced by Tyler Childers, Rick Rubin & Nick Sanborn<\/p>\n

\n\tBillionaire, Kathleen Edwards; Produced by Jason Isbell & Gena Johnson<\/p>\n

\n\tPlanting by the Signs, S.G. Goodman; Produced by S.G. Goodman, Matthew Rowan & Drew Vandenberg<\/p>\n

\n\tCruel Joke, Ken Pomeroy; Produced by Colton Jean, Dakota McDaniel & Gary Paczosa<\/p>\n

\n\tHard Headed Woman, Margo Price; Produced by Matt Ross-Spang<\/p>\n

\tArtist of the year:<\/p>\n

\n\tBrandi Carlile<\/p>\n

\n\tCharley Crockett<\/p>\n

\n\tMargo Price<\/p>\n

\n\tWinner: Molly Tuttle<\/p>\n

\n\tJesse Welles<\/p>\n

\tDuo\/group of the year:<\/p>\n

\n\tFlatland Cavalry<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m With Her<\/p>\n

\n\tMumford & Sons<\/p>\n

\n\tTurnpike Troubadours<\/p>\n

\n\tWinner: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings<\/p>\n

\tEmerging act of the year:<\/p>\n

\n\tBoy Golden<\/p>\n

\n\tCrowe Boys<\/p>\n

\n\tKashus Culpepper<\/p>\n

\n\tWinner: Ken Pomeroy<\/p>\n

\n\tMon Rov\u00eea<\/p>\n

\tInstrumentalist of the year:<\/p>\n

\n\tJoshua Blaylock<\/p>\n

\n\tWinner: Mandy Fer<\/p>\n

\n\tEthan Jodziewicz<\/p>\n

\n\tLibby Rodenbough<\/p>\n

\n\tJuan Solorzano<\/p>\n

\tSong of the year:<\/p>\n

\n\tWinner: \u201cReturning to Myself,\u201d Brandi Carlile; Written by Brandi Carlile<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSnapping Turtle,\u201d S.G. Goodman; Written by S.G. Goodman<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWild and Clear and Blue\u201d I\u2019m With Her; Written by Sarah Jarosz, Josh Kaufman, Aoife O\u2019Donovan & Sara Watkins<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHeavy Foot,\u201d Mon Rov\u00eea; Written by Grant Averill, Eric Cromartie, Cooper Holzman & Andrew Lowe<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe World\u2019s Gone Wrong,\u201d Lucinda Williams (feat. Brittney Spencer); Written by Tom Overby, Doug Pettibone & Lucinda Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Molly Tuttle, Brandi Carlile and Tyler Childers were among the big winners at Wednesday night\u2019s (Sept. 16) 25th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[10546,88,216],"class_list":["post-851249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}