ACL Presents 22nd Annual Americana Honors

>> ACL presents the 22nd Annual Americana Honors from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, with performances by The Avett Brothers, Brandi Carlile and Brandy Clark, SG Goodman, Hermanos Gutiérrez, The Milk Carton Kids and Noah Kahan, Nickel Creek, Margo Price, William Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Russell, The War and Treaty, The Americana All Star Band with the McCrary Sisters, musical director Buddy Miller, and many more.

ACL presents the 22nd Annual Americana Honors.

[ cheers and applause ] >> All right, good evening, everyone.

Welcome to Nashville to the Ryman Auditorium and to the 22nd Annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards.

[ cheers and applause ] >> It's an honor to be up here welcoming you to the show, but we learned long ago that the stars of the show are the ones singing their beautiful songs for you, so we're gonna get right to it.

>> Ladies and gentlemen, Margo Price.

[ music ] >> Singing: Well I got nothing to prove Baby I got nothing to sell I ain't buying what you've got No I ain't ringing no bells I got a myth in my pocket Got a bullet in my teeth I'm going straight in the fire I'm wanna talk To the high priest You know I used to be a lover A queen and a drifter A cowboy devil A bride in a box And a pilgrim and a thief But it was me underneath I just know who I'm not And that's alright with me Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Can't tell me nothing And that's a fact I have been To the mountain and back Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Well I wish I was God But I'm glad that I'm not 'Cause I think too much I got my head in a knot The world's on fire Better save your brother I've been a child And I've been a mother I've been a victim And I've been a tumor You know I used to be Your waitress Now I'm a consumer I've been on food stamps I've been outta my mind Yeah I've rolled In dirty dollars Stood in the welfare line I've been a number I've been under attack I have been To the mountain and back Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> I've been a dancer A saint an assassin I've been a nobody A truck driver shaman So many seasons That I've been adrift Sometimes I wonder If I even exist Do you ever walk down the street Do you think to yourself Am I being watched man Am I on the list Well I've been called Every name in the book Honey go on take your best shot Take your best shot Take your best shot Take your best shot Take your best shot I got my back turned honey Aim at my heart Go on take your best shot now Yeah I am a hunter And I am the hunted I am a baby unwanted I'm an alchemist teacher I'm a sinner I'm a preacher And I know that there's More here than this As I stare in the void Of the black magic vacuum I know the scent of death Like a perfume No this ain't the end This ain't the end This ain't the end This ain't the end Ooh take off your tired eyes Undress your goodbyes 'Cause I have been To the mountain Yeah I have been to the mountain Yeah I have been to the mountain I have been To the mountain and back Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Can't tell me nothing, And that's a fact I have been To the mountain and back Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Alright >> Yeah alright >> Alright >> Alright alright alright >> Alright >> Alright alright alright >> Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright Alright [ music ] [ cheers and applause ] >> Thank you.

>> We all aspire to make music that's ageless and that brings joy to folks long after we're just dust in the ground.

And to suppose you would make art that would inspire listeners for generations and that you'd live to see it, well, I think that's about the biggest reward you can get in this industry, uh, than that legacy.

Paul Simon's most certainly achieved that, and his record "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" has been spinning in our collective hearts for 50 years.

>> Tonight The Milk Carton Kids have recruited Noah Kahan to help them celebrate that anniversary.

Get it!

[ music ] >> Singing: Many's the times I've been mistaken And many times confused Yes and I've often Felt forsaken And certainly misused Oh but I'm alright I'm alright I'm just weary to my bones Still you don't expect To be bright and bon vivant So far away from home So far away from home [ cheers and applause ] >> I don't know a soul who's not been battered Don't have a friend Who feels at ease Don't know a dream That's not been shattered And driven to its knees But it's alright It's alright For we lived so well so long Still when I think of The road we're traveling on I wonder what's gone wrong Can't help it I wonder what's gone wrong [ cheers and applause ] And dreamed I was dying I dreamed that my soul Rose unexpectedly Looking back down at me Smiled reassuringly And I dreamed I was flying And high up above My eyes could clearly see The Statue of Liberty Sailing away to sea And I dreamed I was flying We come on the ship they call The Mayflower We come on the ship that sailed the moon We come in the age's most uncertain hours And sing an American tune Oh but it's all right It's all right It's all right You can't be forever blessed Still tomorrow's going to be another working day And I'm trying to get some rest That's all I'm trying to get some rest And so I'm trying to get some rest [ cheers and applause ] >> Thank you.

[ indistinct chatter ] >> From Peguis First Nation up near Winnepeg, Canada.

Yeah.

Please welcome our friend, Mr. William Prince.

>> Give it up!

[ music ] >> Singing: Is the moon shinin' bright where you are?

Is it even shining at all Running like a white line Down the middle of Some old memory Does the evening unfold in waves The desire to go nowhere But to go out and rage Like a time when it was more than Just some old memory When you miss someone Tears you apart and then some When you miss someone Someone you loved Is the silence quiet or loud A lifetime of questions Lost and profound Professin' to a silhouette of trees on the ground here in front of you When you miss someone It tears you apart and then some When you miss someone Someone you loved Now a tear in your absence My mind doin' backflips Reserve tank running on E Enter galactic Enter the static Searching for a memory When you miss someone Oh when you miss someone [ music ] >> How's that feel so far, Nashville?

[ cheers and applause ] When you miss someone Tears you apart and then some When you miss someone Someone you loved When you miss someone Someone you loved When you miss someone Someone you loved When you miss someone Someone you loved [ cheers and applause ] >> Thanks, everyone.

>> Please welcome my dear friend, the sweet, and fierce, and wonderful SG Goodman.

[ cheers and applause ] Singing: I never wanna leave this world without saying I love you Without saying what you mean to me You know it makes me happy Oh when we share this space and time Want you to know you shaped this heart of mine And I never wanna leave this world Oh without saying I love you Oh and out in the woods This picture is clear to me I owe my life To even my enemies The ones who have loved me The ones who have tried Their grips on my heart And their grips on my mind The stranger I pass My mama, brothers, Friends and my father They're God undercover I'm telling you now In case I must go Want you to know I never wanna leave this world without saying I love you Without saying what you mean to me You know it makes me happy Oh when we share this space and time Want you to know you shaped this heart of mine And I never wanna leave this world Oh without saying I love you [ music ] [ music ] I never wanna leave this world without saying I love you Without saying what you mean to me You know it makes me happy Oh when we share this space and time Want you to know you shaped this heart of mine And I never wanna leave this world Oh without saying I love you [ cheers and applause ] >> 12-year-old Kacey knew that from that first song, that Nickel Creek was really special, that what they were doing was unique, even if she had no idea how many boundaries they would go on to jump over.

Please welcome back to this Ryman stage, my very favorite trailblazers, Nickel Creek.

Ah!

[ cheers and applause ] One, two... one, two... [ music ] >> singing: Well the line Was so long I had to see Where it led myself Pretty sure that I could feel What the think pieces Said they felt At least enough to follow The night's conversation At a party full of fellow Wanna be sensations Saying that's what's going on And if you don't wanna be Left behind Be the next jam Pumping in the background Of everybody's grind Streaming out of the windows Of whatever we're driving So that when we show up It sounds more like We're arriving at the big time We wanna have a big time We're gonna have a big time Where the long line leads We only have a short time So make it a big one Ooh ooh And instead of the list You'll be on the marquee Smoke rising from the fire Where the long line leads Well sign me up Tell me every last thing I'm gonna need to change So no think piece can feel That I was ever any other way And when they say I've hit my stride I'll be ready to strut Which foot you think'll Look best in front of the other Dance dancing up a hill To houses you can see From miles around Sure a quake will probably Take 'em but we chance it To impress this town To become one of the angels Who have earned their wings Flapping madly so they don't Become the last big thing At the big time We wanna have a big time We're gonna have a big time Where the long line leads We only have a short time So make it a big one Ooh ooh ooh In the flames where we go To show off and be showed Like it isn't what we're doing But how many other people know I'm gonna hit the big time And when I hit the big time Y'all are gonna have a big time Where the long line leads It might be a short time But it's gonna be a big one Gonna shake ya like the big one We're having us a big time We're gonna have a big time Showing everyone our big times On our little feeds We only have a short time So we're making it a big one Ooh ooh ooh ooh 'Til none of us have waited In a line so long Or so loudly told so many That's what's going on Or so quietly wondered why we didn't feel the heat Smoke rising from the ashes where the long line leads Oh-oh-oh [ music ] [ cheers and applause ] >> [indistinct].

>> They are Ecuadorian Swiss brothers from Zurich, who for their fourth album began to explore the musical tradition of the Spaghetti Western.

Please welcome Hermanos Gutierrez.

[ cheers and applause ] [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] [ cheers and applause ] >> Our next performer is definitely family, and a deeply committed member of many communities.

Here to share a song from her brand new album, "The Returner", please welcome Allison Russell.

[ cheers and applause ] [ music ] >> One human family.

Indivisible, equal, whole.

Beloved.

singing: Eve was Black Haven't you heard The Mother of All Was Dark and Good Eve was Black didn't you know Is that why you hate My Black Skin so Is that why you hate My Black Skin so Does it remind you of What you lost Do you hate or do you lust Do you despise or do you yearn To return to return to return Back to the Motherland Back to the Garden Back to your Black Skin Back to the Innocence Back to the shine you lost When you enslaved your Kin [ music ] Why do you try to touch my hair Do you hope to find A blessing there Why do you try to keep me down Do you hope to sow This barren ground With my black blood Black magic blood With my black blood Black magic blood Do I remind you of what you lost Do you hate or do you lust Do you despise or do you yearn To return to return to return Back to the Motherland Back to the Garden Back to your Black Skin Back to the Innocence Back to the shine you lost When you enslaved your children What do you hope for As you tie the rope What do you hope for As you hoist me up What do you hope for As you watch me swing Will the Witness Tree Salvation bring Do I remind you of what you lost Do you hate or do you lust Do you despise or do you yearn To return to return to return Back to the motherland Back to the garden Back to your Black skin Back to the innocence Back to the shine you lost When you enslaved your kin Oh my father oh my mother Oh my sister oh my brother Oh my cousin all my pale kin Can't wash this sin Can't wash this sin Can't wash this sin With more Black blood >> Ooh yeah Ooh yeah Ooh yeah >> Back to the garden >> Ooh yeah >> Back to your Black skin >> Ooh yeah >> Back to the innocence [ music ] [ singing in French ] [ music ] [ cheers and applause ] Megan Coleman, Elizabeth Pupo-Walker, Elenna Canlas, Ganessa James, Joy Clark, Meg McCormick.

Love y'all!

Our circle is unbroken!

[ cheers and applause ] >> Hello, everybody!

[ cheering ] >> We are The War and Treaty, and we're happy to be here with you tonight.

This song's called "Stretch Out."

Let's do it.

[ music ] >> Singing: I'm feeling younger Wild and free I know I'm gonna change My body and me Bold and bright I'm in a new place If you wanna feel like me Don't you wanna feel like me Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Oh stretch out >> Stretch out >> Oh Ain't no use In letting it weigh you down Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Come on, Tanya!

>> Singing: Pain is a thing That ain't driving me Hand of the divine That's leading me >> Peace and pursuit Of true happiness Don't you wanna be free Don't you wanna be free Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Oh stretch out >> Stretch out >> Yeah Ain't no use In letting it weigh you down Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Tanya stretch out >> Stretch out >> Hold on >> Hold on >> Let go >> Let go >> Be free >> Be free >> Yeah >> Ooh >> Ain't no use In letting it weigh you down >> Come on mama >> Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Oh >> Ooh >> Oh ho >> Ooh >> Oh yeah yeah yeah >> Ooh >> Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah >> Ooh >> Stretch out >> Ooh >> Stretch out >> Ooh >> Stretch out >> Ooh >> Ahh stretch out >> Stretch out >> Come on oh stretch out >> Stretch out >> Oh >> Ooh >> Ain't no use In letting it weigh you down >> Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Hold on >> Hold on >> You gotta let go >> Let go >> I want all of us to be free >> Be free >> Ain't no use Of letting it weigh you down >> Stretch out >> Ay >> No >> Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Stretch out >> Yeah!

[ cheers and applause ] >> And right now please welcome to the stage Brandi Carlile and Brandy Clark.

[ cheers and applause ] [ music ] [ music ] >> Singing: Dear insecurity Ah we meet again Don't try to flirt with me You're not really my friend But you take up half this bed Living rent free in my head >> Oh insecurity Show up in my mirror Pull out the worst in me And whisper in my ear That my lips are way too thin Too many miles on my skin >> If I can't find a way To get you gone Can we find a way to get along along along Careless and you're cruel And oh you're mindless Maybe you could try A little kindness Instead of hurting me >> Insecurity Where did you come from Your immaturity Is the thing I can't outrun You're a mean girl You're a bully And I hope you're having fun >> Hey insecurity >> You try on all my clothes It just occurred to me That you may live in my home You tell me I don't fit in You push me close to quitting >> If I can't find a way To get you gone Can we find a way to get along along along You're careless and you're cruel And oh you're mindless Maybe you can try A little kindness Instead of hurting me >> 'Cause insecurity This time feels like love She's really sure of me So please don't ---- this up If you cut in on this dance I may never get another chance >> I'll never find a way To get you gone Wish I could find a way to know You're wrong you're wrong You're wrong You're careless and you're cruel And oh you're mindless Maybe you can try A little kindness >> Instead of hurting me >> Instead of hurting me >> Why are you hurting me >> Insecurity [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> And now I get the great pleasure of introducing one of my favorite all-time bands, The Avett Brothers!

>> Come on!

[ music ] [ music ] Singing: I wish I was a flame Dancing in a candle Lighting up your living room High on the mantle I could bring some romance without any scandal And then when you were done You'd just put me out I wish I was a tune you sang in your kitchen Putting your groceries away And washing your dishes I could float around your tongue And ease the tension And then when you were done You'd just quiet down But if I get too close Will the magic fade Would I turn you off or away If I pull you in Now would I push you out Of something here you care about Well I'm at a loss for what to do But I'm drawn to you I wish I was a sweater Just wrapped around your hips And when it got too cold Into me you'd slip And when the sun came back Darlin' you would hang me up And I would watch you while you undress But if I get too close Will the magic fade?

Would I turn you off or away If I pull you in Now would I push you out Of something here you care about Well I'm at a loss for what to do But I'm drawn to you [ music ] I'm not a song I am not a sweater I'm not a fire No I'm something better I'm a man in love writing you a letter Will you take it Will you keep it Will you read it Believe it I love you I'm sorry [ cheers and applause ] >> When the Americana Music Association gives out our lifetime achievement award, they're not meant to end or to be an end point to any given career.

They're meant to inspire artists to continue creating, and nobody has embraced that challenge more than our next guest.

Please welcome the incomparable Bonnie Raitt.

[ cheers and applause ] [ music ] It starts out slow Go ahead and go Pretty soon the melody Is like a rainstorm tin roof symphony But it starts out slow It goes on and on For way too long Ooh Ooh Ooh It always ends on a bad note If you could dance at all you'd dance alone It goes on and on The quiet behind a slamming door The break of a heart that won't break no more Get-away wheels in a straight line Serenade of a made up mind >> Yeah, Mary.

Singing: There ain't no rhyme Just wasted time Moonlight spotlight shining down on A made up mind and a love gone wrong There ain't no rhyme The quiet behind a slamming door The break of a heart that won't break no more Get-away wheels in a straight line Serenade of a made up mind The quiet behind a slamming door The break of a heart that won't break no more Get-away wheels in a straight line Serenade of a made up mind Got a made up mind Moonlight spotlight shining down on a made up mind and a love gone wrong Moonlight spotlight shining down on a made up mind and a love gone wrong Moonlight spotlight shining down on a made up mind and a love gone wrong [ cheers and applause ] >> Thank you, Americana.

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Thanks for coming out.

Everybody be safe.

This is everybody and Cripple Creek.

Singing: Up on Cripple Creek She sends me If I spring a leak, She mends me I don't have to speak 'Cause she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one Good luck had just stung me To the race track I did go She bet on one horse to win And I bet on another to show The odds were in our favor I had 'em five to one When that nag to win came around the track Sure enough we had won Up on Cripple Creek She sends me If I spring a leak, she mends me, I don't have to speak