Two-time Grammy Award winner singer and songwriter Jim Lauderdale will release his new album, Patchwork River, on the Thirty Tigers label on May 11.

He co-wrote the album with longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, whom Lauderdale has praised as “one of the greatest writers…

Nashville, Tenn., — The Americana Music Association will present Sam Bush will the Lifetime Achievement for Instrumentalist award at the 8th Annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, presented by the Gibson Foundation, scheduled for Thurs., Sept. 17th at the historic Ryman Auditorium….

Mandolin guru Sam Bush will receive the Lifetime Achievement for Instrumentalist Award in mid-September at the 8th annual Americana Honors & Awards Ceremony in Nashville, Tenn.

The Gibson Foundation will present the award on Sept. 17 at the historic Ryman Auditorium….

Nashville, Tenn. — The Americana Music Association has announced that legendary Nashville radio station 650AM WSM will be officially added to the Americana Music Radio Panel starting Monday, March 2, 2009.

“It’s always an honor to be accepted as a member to a radio panel of premier broadcasters. WSM’s contribution to the Americana Chart is evidence that quality artists have a platform to reach a national and international audience at 650AM and WSMonline.com,” says WSM Program Director Joe Limardi….

Nashville, Tenn. — Alison Krauss & Robert Plant and Levon Helm were among the winners at tonight’s Americana Music Association’s 7th Annual Honors & Awards show at Nashville’s Historic Ryman Auditorium. Appearing at the festivities to pick up two awards for their critically-acclaimed “Raising Sand” Krauss and Plant won Album of the Year and Duo/Group [...]