Robert Cray & Graham Nash to be honoured at Americana Awards

Bluesman Robert Cray and veteran rocker Graham Nash will pick up special honours at the Americana Music Association’s Honors & Awards ceremony in Tennessee in September (17).
Cray has been named the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance, while the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash star Nash will be honoured with the Spirit of Americana Free Speech in Music Award.
Folk icon Iris DeMent will also receive recognition as an Americana Trailblazer.
The studio musicians who made up the Hi Rhythm Section house band at producer Willie Mitchell’s studio in Memphis, Tennessee will also be saluted with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist.
As previously announced, Van Morrison will receive the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting.