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\n\tThe roots music world celebrated its notable artists, albums, and songs of the year when the 24th annual Americana Honors & Awards were held Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.<\/p>\n
\n\tSierra Ferrell, the Grammy-winning West Virginia songwriter, repeated as Artist of the Year, while Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats took home Album of the Year for their LP South of Here<\/em>, produced by Brad Cook.<\/p>\n \n\tOther winners included Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, for Duo\/Group of the Year, and MJ Lenderman, who was named Emerging Act of the Year.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 2025 Americana Honors are the centerpiece of the Americana Music Association\u2019s annual AmericanaFest, held every September at a venue around Nashville. Actor-singer John C. Reilly hosted this year\u2019s ceremonies, which included performances by Rawlings and Welch, Rateliff, Noeline Hoffman, Old 97\u2019s, Emmylou Harris, Dawes, and the winners for Song of the Year, I\u2019m With Her, who won for their composition \u201cAncient Light.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tALBUM OF THE YEAR<\/strong> \n\tARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong> DUO\/GROUP OF THE YEAR INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR SONG OF THE YEAR<\/strong> The roots music world celebrated its notable artists, albums, and songs of the year when the 24th annual Americana Honors & Awards were held Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Sierra Ferrell, the Grammy-winning West Virginia songwriter, repeated as Artist of the Year, while Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats took home Album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[6133,2483,2947,8370,1861,2949],"class_list":{"0":"post-20500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-americana","9":"tag-awards","10":"tag-complete","11":"tag-honors","12":"tag-list","13":"tag-winners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Lonesome Drifter<\/em>, Charley Crockett; Produced by Charley Crockett & Shooter Jennings
Foxes in the Snow<\/em>, Jason Isbell; Produced by Jason Isbell & Gena Johnson
Manning Fireworks<\/em>, MJ Lenderman; Produced by Alex Farrar & MJ Lenderman
South of Here<\/em>, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats; Produced by Brad Cook
<\/strong>Woodland<\/em>, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings; Produced by David Rawlings<\/p>\n
Charley Crockett
Sierra Ferrell
<\/strong>Joy Oladokun
Billy Strings
Waxahatchee<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Julien Baker & TORRES
Dawes
Larkin Poe
The Mavericks
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
<\/strong>
EMERGING ACT OF THE YEAR<\/strong>
Noeline Hofmann
MJ Lenderman<\/strong>
Medium Build
Maggie Rose
Jesse Welles<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Fred Eltringham
Alex Hargreaves<\/strong>
Megan Jane
Kaitlyn Raitz
Seth Taylor<\/p>\n
\u201cJohnny Moonshine,\u201d Maggie Antone (Written by Maggie Antone, Natalie Hemby & Aaron Raitiere)
\u201cAncient Light,\u201d I\u2019m With Her (Written by Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O\u2019Donovan & Sara Watkins)
<\/strong>\u201cWristwatch,\u201d MJ Lenderman (Written by MJ Lenderman)
\u201cSunshine Getaway,\u201d JD McPherson (Written by Page Burkum, JD McPherson & Jack Torrey)
\u201cHeartless,\u201d Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Written by Nathaniel Rateliff)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"