Americana Music Awards 2015: A Full List Of Winners
This week Nashville's country music community is being overrun by the Americana branch of the musical tree. The Americana Music Association has attracted thousands of musicians and industry types to a week of showcases, seminars and last night's annual Americana Music Awards.
Americana Music Honors & Awards 2015 Winners
Album of the Year: Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Lucinda Williams (Produced by Lucinda Williams, Tom Overby and Greg Leisz)
Artist of the Year: Sturgill Simpson
Duo / Group of the Year: The Mavericks
Song of the Year: Sturgill Simpson, “Turtles All the Way Down” (Written by Sturgill Simpson)
Emerging Artist of the Year: Shakey Graves
Instrumentalist of the Year: John Leventhal
Spirit of Americana / Free Speech in Music Award: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Lifetime Achievement Award, Trailblazer: Don Henley
Lifetime Achievement Award, Songwriting: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Lifetime Achievement Award, Instrumentalist: Ricky Skaggs
Lifetime Achievement Award, Performance: Los Lobos
President’s Award: B.B. King
