“It’s such a beautiful, simple, poignant message, and crushing that, the context is defined by it being the last song now. “It sounded like a classic Prine song in the best possible way,” producer Dave Cobb, who also was on-stage to receive the award, said in the Tenessean of the song last year. Carlile performed the song at the Grammys this past March, and a version of her singing the song will be included on the upcoming Prine covers album Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows, Songs of John Prine, Vol. It was an emotional performance, with all three singers seemingly getting choked up throughout various moments. The event was held in-person with a capacity crowd Wednesday night at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.Ĭarlile, Price and Shires traded vocals on the song, which was co-written by Prine and Pat McLaughlin and earned a Grammy for Best American Roots song after it was released in 2020. Fiona Prine, the widow of John Prine and president of Oh Boy Records, accepted the song of the year award on his behalf from Joe Henry and Aoife O’Donovan.Moments after John Prine’s family accepted a posthumous Song of the Year award for the singer-songwriter’s final release, “I Remember Everything,” Prine’s friends and stylistic inheritors Amanda Shires, Margo Price, and Brandi Carlile took the stage at the 2021 Americana Honors & Awards to perform the gorgeous ballad. Kiefer Sutherland accepted on behalf of Black Pumas. Other guests included “CBS This Morning” host Anthony Mason, who gave Carlile her prize, and Shooter Jennings, who accepted Simpson’s award in his absence. Performers on the show, which was broadcast on Circle All Access, NPR’s website and SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel, included Carlile, Crockett, Jason Isbell, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah, Valerie June, Steve Earle, Margo Price and Sarah Jarosz. The previously announced “honors,” aka lifetime achievement awards, went to Memphis soul great Carla Thomas, Keb’ Mo’, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, producer/engineer Trina Shoemaker and the Mavericks. Your eyes have deceived you if you ever took too quick a look at a passing reference to one of the great singer-songwriters of our day and mistook Brandy Clark for Brandi Carlile or vice versa. Violin and fiddle player Kristin Weber was named instrumentalist of the year. The Texas singer/songwriter may be skirting the edges of newcomer status - the album he released just last week, “Music City USA,” is his tenth album in six years - but it’s been only recently the indie artist has come into greater prominence. Black Pumas hadn’t been shut out last year, though - they’d won in 2020 for emerging artist of the year.įollowing in Black Pumas’ footsteps as this year’s emerging act of the year was Charley Crockett. Last year it went to the Highwomen, a group that includes Carlile, who won three 2020 awards in all. Black Pumas won duo/group of the year for the first time. I’m honoring John Prine at the GRAMMYs and he is one of my great heroes, he’s certainly one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Not everyone picking up trophies was a repeat winner in his or her category. Brandi Carlile honored the late John Prine with a performance of the GRAMMY-winning track, I Remember Everything, at the 2021 GRAMMYs on Sunday, March 14. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions).” It wasn’t a first-time win in that category he also won album of the year in 2017 for “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.” Like Prine, Simpson is also a past artist of the year winner, as well, having earned that honor back in 2015. Prine’s song had already been celebrated at this year’s Grammys, where it picked up two awards in the roots categories.Īlbum of the year went to Sturgill Simpson’s “Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. I hope you will remember me Youre always on my mind Brandi Carlile & Elton John I have seen the canyon lands Crooked lines like in your hands Youd swear the earth was split in two I. He was awarded it for “I Remember Everything,” his one-off final recording co-writer Pat McLaughlin shared the award. John Prine won artist of the year in 2020, posthumously - but that didn’t mean he was done winning plaudits from the Americana Music Association, as he merited one (presumably) final trophy this year, too, for song of the year. Artist Of The Year uses her speech to shout out □ /sSl8faAC3A
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