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McMurtry, Carll garner top AMA nominations
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant are expected to clean up when the winners are anounced in September, but acerbic Austin singer-songwriters James McMurtry and Hayes Carll received several nominations, including Artist of the Year for McMurtry, in the 2008 Americana Music Association Awards announced Wednesday.
Carll’s “Trouble in Mind” and McMurtry’s “Just Us Kids” will go against Krauss & Plant’s “Raising Sand” and Levon Helm’s “Dirt Farmer” in the album category.
The Song of the Year competition pits McMurtry’s vitriolic “Cheney’s Toy” and Carll’s “She Left Me for Jesus” against “Broken” by Tift Merritt, “Gone Gone Gone” by Krauss & Plant and “Poor Old Dirt Farmer” by Helm.
Artist of the Year nominees include McMurtry, Helm, Steve Earle and Jim Lauderdale.
New Emerging Artist of the Year nominees are Justin Townes Earle, Mike Farris, parttime Austinite Ryan Bingham and the Steeldrivers.
Austin guitarist/ producer Gurf Morlix is nominated in the Best Instrumentalist category along with Buddy Miller, Chris Thile and Sam Bush. Duo/ Group of the Year nominees are Alison Krauss & Robert Plant, Drive By Truckers, Kane Welch Kaplin and the Avett Brothers.
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By Shelley Steinley
June 13, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
Hello Michael
We sent you off a copy of Chris Brecht’s new Record the Great Ride.
We were wondering if it made it to you and if you got a chance to listen to it.
We’ve been getting some great reviews, and we’d love to get one in the Statesman!!!
thanks a lot! shelley shelleysteinley@gmail.com Dead Leaf Records.