Americana Last Artist Of The Year Awards

Nashville, Tennessee (AP) - Members of the Americana Music Association love Buddy Miller, and they confirmed again Thursday night, naming him Artist of the Year in something of an upset over collaborator Robert Plant.

Miller also had Instrumentalist of the Year, becoming the winner of the night at the Ryman Auditorium.

Miller, an actor broke the singer loved Nashville Led Zeppelin Artist Award after the two co-product of the plant "Band of Joy," which won best album of the year. This award is given to the plant itself, despite the role of Miller in the booth and as a conductor.

"It's not fair ...," Miller said after winning Artist of the Year.

The plants have received the most applause of the evening, but the love was there for the entire Miller, and it should come as no surprise. Now he has won or shared with his wife, Julie Miller, 12 American awards, including two of the Artist of the Year trophies, award show and serves as leader of the band.

"I love this show awards, but I think we should change the name of Buddys," Emmylou Harris joked.

Plant was adopted by the community Americana, a free association of roots rockers, alt-country folk players and capricious when he won Album of the Year for Raising Sand "with Alison Krauss. He confirmed his passion for style music when he published "Band of Joy" last year. With the help of Miller, he has assembled an elite team of musicians from Nashville and deployment marked the beginning of rock 'n' blues and folk.

Plants and Miller were nominated for the night with Elizabeth Cook to three each. While working with the plant, Miller has also teamed up with guitarists Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz to release "Majestic Silver Strings" during the period.

Miller first factory at a concert Harris in Dublin, Ireland.

"I saw a complete player licks and all the beauty and the monologue of great American music that I'd ever heard in my life, all put together with a friend, a hat, and I was flabbergasted," Plant told the crowd .

The two met again when Miller joined the group "Raising Sand" tour. Plant enlisted his help with "Band of Joy", when a second flat disc with Krauss failed.

"I told the forces that" We can not go anywhere without Buddy Miller, "Plant said," and I never want to go anywhere without Buddy Miller. "

Justin Townes Earle "Harlem River Blues" won song of the year, Mumford & Sons won new artist / emerging and The Avett Brothers won Duo / Group of the Year for the third time.

AMA presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Lucinda Williams songwriting, Gregg Allman performance, dobro player Jerry Douglas as instrumentalist and Muscle Shoals producer Rick Hall's famous as an executive. British broadcaster Bob Harris has been honored as a pioneer.

Night and included a number of excellent performance. Harris, Krauss began to greet the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Soundtrack: The 10 anniversary. They sang: "I Fly Away," and Miller on guitar, dobro and Don Douglas was standup bass.

Cook and Carl Hayes, the other two artists nominated this year, performed their song of the year nominations - ". Kmag YoYo" cooks "El Camino" and civil wars of Carl got a standing ovation for their breakthrough "Barton Hollow," Williams sang his latest song "Blessed" and Jessica Lea Mayfield performed "for now" with Scott and Seth Avet, who returned to play "Once and Future Carpenter."

Allman, who received a liver transplant last year, sang "Sweet Melissa" after a period of nine weeks of the series.

"I was in the hospital for a while, but I did," Allman told the crowd.

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