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Dave Rawlings Machine Leads Americana Music Award Nominations

Winners Will Be Revealed Sept. 9 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium

The Dave Rawlings Machine has netted four nominations for the upcoming Americana Music Association Awards, while Ryan Bingham and Ray Wylie Hubbard scored three nods each when the nominees were revealed Wednesday (May 12).

Emmylou Harris and Todd Snider announced the nominations during a breakfast sponsored by BMI and held at the W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville.

The Carolina Chocolate Drops, who earned a nod for duo or group of the year, opened the proceedings with a lively five-song set that had many in the crowd tapping their feet and shooting videos with their cell phones.

Winners will be announced Sept. 9 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium during a show hosted by Jim Lauderdale. The awards presentations will be the high point of the 11th annual Americana Festival and Conference taking place Sept. 8-11 at the Sheraton Nashville hotel.

In town to play the Grand Ole Opry, the Carolina Chocolate Drops gave the crowd a delightful short course in the string band music of the 1920s and '30s, opening with "Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind" and rolling through "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine" (which they played on the Tuesday night Opry), the instrumental "Genuine Negro Jig" (the title song from their current album) and "Cindy Gal" (which they learned from a 91-year-old African American fiddle player in North Carolina). The trio concluded with the sassy woman's revenge song, "Hit 'Em Up Style," originally recorded by R&B singer-songwriter Blu Cantrell.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

Album of the Year

The List, Rosanne Cash

A Friend of a Friend, Dave Rawlings Machine

Downtown Church, Patty Griffin

A. Enlightenment B. Endarkment (Hint: There Is No C), Ray Wylie Hubbard

Song

"The Weary Kind," written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, performed by Ryan Bingham

"Drunken Poets Dream," written by Hayes Carll and Ray Wylie Hubbard, performed by Ray Wylie Hubbard

"Ruby," written by Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch, performed by the Dave Rawlings Machine

"I and Love and You," written and performed by the Avett Brothers

Artist

Ryan Bingham

Patty Griffin

Levon Helm

Steve Earle

Ray Wylie Hubbard

New and Emerging Artist

Sarah Jarosz

Ryan Bingham

Hayes Carll

Corb Lund

Joe Pug

Duo or Group

The Avett Brothers

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Band of Heathens

Dave Rawlings Machine

Instrumentalist

Buddy Miller

Dave Rawlings

Will Kimbrough

Sam Bush

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