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Publishing date: Dec 15, 2020 • December 15, 2020 • 1 minute read • Musician John Prine performs after accepting his PEN New England Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Mass., Sept. 19, 2016. Photo by Brian Snyder /REUTERS
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The late John Prine has been honoured with the Artist of the Year prize at the 19th annual Americana Honors and Awards.
The singer/songwriter, a 2003 Americana Lifetime Achievement Award winner, becomes the first artist in Honors & Awards history to be posthumously nominated in this category.
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Without fanfare or performance, folk/country supergroup The Highwomen was revealed Tuesday as the runaway, multi-category winner of 2020 Americana Awards. The quartet of Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires won Album of the Year for their 2019 self-titled debut, Song of the Year for “Crowded Table” and Duo/Group of the Year.
In a sad posthumous recognition, John Prine was named Artist of the Year. The era-shaping singer songwriter and 2003 Americana Lifetime Achievement Award-winner was enjoying a vibrant late career run only to be felled by Covid-19 in April. He’d been named Artist of the Year three previous times since 2005.