Going Down in Flames” – one of the most notable songs of the year. The album was a solid, well-structured blend of pop and folk-tinged music which has proved to be a commercial success as well as an artistic and critical success. We are thrilled that the album is nominated for three Grammy Awards: Best Folk Album, Best Americana Album, and Best Roots Song. “Our mission is to craft albums that stand up to repeated listens, and “Trouble” accomplishes just that. Some of the songs on this album sound like they came straight from American roots music, while others sound like completely original pop songs. The truth is, they’re both. It’s hard to define a pop song that really fits us, so the way we see it is that our strength is in our songs. We make those sounds.” — Daniel Bachman “This is an album by the young band that we were three years ago and we loved so much. It’s really beautiful and has so much vitality.” – Daniel Bachman “I’m just amazed at how well we’re able to mesh our traditional songs with this really great music and have it not feel so out of place.” – Ben Platt “It’s amazing how many songs it took for us to discover who we really are. But what a journey. The songs on this album represent our life more than anything else we’ve ever done.” – Ben Platt “It was a long, grueling journey and we didn’t know if we would ever get here. To be able to share this in the midst of everything going on was more than we could ever have imagined.” – Ben Platt “The best of what we have to offer in the purest, truest form. And as I said, it’s all from the heart, everything we sing is from the inside.” – Ben Platt “It’s the sound that we’re going for in this band. These songs are the purest, most honest expression of who we are.” – Ben Platt The band is nominated for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Best Roots Gospel Album, and Best Americana Album for their recording and tour performances. The four musicians have each received GRAMMY Awards. Ben Platt has received two GRAMMY Awards, one for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (co-nominee) for “Pieces of Me” from Dear Evan Hansen, and one for Best Contemporary R&B Album for Something New from This Is Acting. Ben Platt has released his debut studio album, Sing To Me Instead, in October 2015. This past December, Ben Platt released a new version of “Pieces of Me” from Dear Evan Hansen as a piano ballad and reached #1 on the Billboard Classical chart. Platt was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in The Last Ship and received two Drama Desk Award nominations for his work in Dear Evan Hansen and This Is Acting. In 2017, he released his second album of standards, Be More Kind, with proceeds benefitting Reverb and its mission to build instruments for schools and youth in Africa. Betsy Wolfe received her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Utah, where she also received a Musical Theatre Writing Certificate. Her music has been featured on the NBC game show The Wall, and she was a finalist on the reality show America’s Most Talented Kid on the Disney Channel. Kelsea Ballerini has released seven singles, four studio albums, one live album, and 15 official music videos, including “Legends” from her multi-platinum debut, The First Time, her highest charting single to date. She has performed more than 1,400 shows, including headlining amphitheater and arena shows. Since launching into the musical spotlight in 2014, The Shires has spent more than five years touring the country and the UK, writing and recording, collaborating with other artists, and releasing four records, including 2016’s critically-acclaimed new album The Light Between Us, which debuted at #4 on the UK and U.S. iTunes Country Charts, reaching #2 on the US Billboard Top 200 charts. The Americana Music Association today announced that the Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Contemporary Instrumental Recorded Song Of The Year will all be announced on November 17, 2018, during the organization’s 38th annual Americana Music Honors & Awards show. These three categories were introduced for the first time in 2019 and were a fan favorite throughout the Americana Music Honors & Awards voting process in late 2019. Americana Fans nominated “Piece by Piece” from Brandi Carlile for Album Of The Year, as well as “This Old Road” from The Shires for Song Of The Year. And the fans also voted to honor Ben Platt for Contemporary Instrumental Recorded Song Of The Year. A complete listing of nominees for this year’s Americana Honors & Awards is available here. In the meantime, the full list of Americana Music Association Honors & Awards nominees for 2019 is available here. The Americana Music Honors & Awards were created to celebrate the contributions of the legends of the genre from Woody Guthrie to Jason Isbell, as well as to honor younger talent on the rise. A few of this year’s honorees include The Old 97’s (Lifetime Achievement), Loretta Lynn (Hall of Fame), The War (Rising Star), Brandi Carlile (Americana Artist of the Year), The Civil Wars (Americana Band of the Year), Dori Freeman (Gospel Recording of the Year), The Duhks (Americana Album of the Year), Lonesome River Band (Americana Song of the Year), Rodney Crowell (Americana Song of the Year) and The SteelDrivers (Americana Album of the Year). For more information on the nomination process for the Americana Music Honors & Awards, please click here. For a full list of Americana Honors & Awards winners and honorees from the past 38 years of the Americana Music Honors & Awards, please visit http://www.americana.org/honors-and-awards/. LIVE ON-AIR: Sunday, March 24 at 5PM ET/ 2PM PT on SiriusXM’s The Coffee House channel On March 19th, The Americana Music Association announced the list of honorees for the 45th annual Americana Honors & Awards, which will be held on Friday, June 14, 2019 in Nashville, TN. The list includes 13 performers in both of the Americana Honors categories, Contemporary Instrumental Recorded Song Of The Year and Contemporary Instrumental Album Of The Year. To see the full list of nominees, visit http://www.americana.org/honors-and-awards/. The honorees are selected by public vote, with three separate categories — Song, Album and Person — open to nominees from the public for each of the four Americana Music Association annual award shows (New Music, Breakthrough Artist, Americana Album and Americana Song). The winners of each will be announced live during the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony. Previous recipients include The Black Lillies, The Lumineers, Kacey Musgraves, Willie Nelson, John Prine, The Mavericks, Gillian Welch, The Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show. In addition to the live awards ceremony on June 14, 2019, the Americana Honors & Awards will also be livestreamed via a dedicated YouTube Channel starting Friday, June 7, 2019, leading up to the gala evening. The Americana Music Association Awards are considered the highest honors for today’s Americana Music. In 2018, they received more than 100,000 votes from music fans around the world. In 2017, the ceremony was also broadcast for the first