Americana Awards for 2006
The Americana Music Association held it’s 5th Annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville Tennessee on Friday September 22nd. The 2006 awards went to…
The Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for Executive: Barry Poss, Sugar Hill Records
Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist: Kenny Vaughan
Lifetime Achievement Award for Performing: Alejandro Escovedo
Lifetime Achievement Award for Producer/Engineer: Allen Toussaint
Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting: Rodney Crowell
President’s Award: Mickey Newbury
First Amendment Center/Americana Music Association “Spirit of Americana” Free Speech Award: Charlie Daniels
Album Of The Year: Childish Things by James McMurtry (Compadre)
Artist Of The Year: Neil Young
Duo/Group Of The Year: Drive-By Truckers
Instrumentalist Of The Year: Kenny Vaughan
New/Emerging Artist Of The Year: The Greencards
Song Of The Year: “We Can’t Make It Here” by James McMurtry; appears on Childish Things by James McMurtry (Compadre)
The Americana Music Association honors American music based on country, folk and bluegrass.
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