Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell won album of the year and song of the year at the 2016 Americana Honors and Awards show on Wednesday night, extending his legacy as a star of Americana music.
Isbell was honoured for his song 24 Frames and album Something More Than Free.
Country singer Chris Stapleton won artist of the year during the awards show held Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., at the Ryman Auditorium.
Margo Price, a hard rocking country singer akin to Loretta Lynn, took home the emerging artist of the year award, while Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell won for duo/group of the year. Sara Watkins won the instrumentalist of the year.
Also honoured with lifetime achievement awards were Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, soul singer and songwriter William Bell, and artists Jim Lauderdale and Shawn Colvin, whose work has crossed the genres of folk, country and even pop in Colvin's case.
Billy Bragg performed Woody Guthrie's I Ain't Got No Home in This at the Ryman in Nashville during Wednesday's show. (Mark Zaleski/The Associated Press)
Billy Bragg was the first foreign recipient of the Spirit of American/Free Speech in Music Award, drawing laughs by citing the relationship of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston as earlier proof of Nashville's welcoming attitude towards Britons.
Bragg turned serious and "bestowed" his award to perhaps the most influential of U.S. songwriters.
"All of us stand on the shoulders of a great American songwriter and activist, for we are all in debt to the great Woody Guthrie," said Bragg.
Guthrie expressed many moods in his songs, Bragg said, "but never, ever was Woody Guthrie cynical."
Bragg said he had sought the permission of Nora Guthrie, Woody's daughter, in doing so. Bragg and the band Wilco were involved in the Mermaid Avenue Woody Guthrie tribute projects after Nora Guthrie shared some of her father's unreleased songs and lyrics.
Woody Guthrie died in 1967 at 55 after suffering from Huntington's disease.
Jason Isbell wins big, Billy Bragg draws laughs, praise at Americana Awards
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