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2024 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards

2024 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards

John Carpenter

Hats off to the Americana Music Association for a sublime moment at the end of this year’s awards show. Instead of the usual all-acts-on-stage sing-along, they paid tribute to the song and songwriter who must certainly be considered among the founders of this nebulous genre.

Gram Parsons’ “Return of the Grievous Angel” was released 50 years ago, four months after his untimely death at the age of 26. It was a jangly homage to old time country music at a time when the rest of the world was listening to anything but, and it featured a young singer Parsons had discovered in New York a few years earlier, Emmylou Harris.

Larkin Poe Brings Down the House and Sets It on Fire

Larkin Poe Brings Down the House and Sets It on Fire

John Schumacher

Poor Reba McEntire. While she was playing the 18,000-seat Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee March 17, Larkin Poe was shaking the foundation of venerable old Turner Hall Ballroom across the street with their turbocharged electric blues. 

I picture the Queen of Country stopping in the middle of “Fancy” and ordering a roadie to go over there and tell them to keep it down, for cripes sake. 

It. Was. Loud. These two sisters of the South – literal sisters, Rebecca and Megan Lovell, Knoxville born, Georgia raised, Nashville residing – somehow produce as big a sound with lap steel and electric guitar as southern rock royalty did with their iconic three-guitar attack.