The Americana Music Association has named nominees for its 18th annual Americana Honors & Awards. Women dominated the 2019 nods with Brandi Carlisle Carlile, Rhiannon Giddens, Kacey Musgraves and Mavis Staples among the nominated. The Americana nominations stand in sharp contrast to their counterparts in main stream country where women…
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Mavis Staples Pens Tribute to Aretha Franklin: ‘She Was Just Special’
“She just had it from the beginning, from Day One,” Staples says of Queen of Soul