美国文化音乐协会颁出年度奖

Americana Music Association Hands out Annual Awards

美国文化音乐协会颁出年度奖

 

Buddy¹ Miller²'s Universal United House of Prayer was named best album at the recent Americana Awards forcing the self-effacing and shy musician to give two acceptance speeches. And, those two speeches prompted this comment from Emmylou Harris, for whom Miller plays guitar.

 

Emmylou Harris: With two acceptance speeches, I think Buddy Miller has said more tonight onstage, than in the 10 years we've worked together. Congratulations, Buddy.

 

Also honored was Mary Gauthier. Now living in Nashville, the Louisiana native joined many of the night's performers, and audience members, in wearing Mardi Gras beads³, in tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The beads glittered as Gauthier performed the title track to her Mercy Now CD.

 

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While her nominated album did not win the Album of the Year, nor "Mercy Now" Song of the Year, Mary Gauthier didn't go home for the Americana Awards empty-handed. She was named the 2005 New/Emerging Artist of the Year. In accepting the award, Gauthier, who ran away from home as a teenager and later spent years battling alcohol abuse, pointed⁴ out that her mother was in the audience.

 

Gauthier: I need to thank my mama, who made it up from south Louisiana. And she's crying. I made my mama cry for a long time. I hope that's a different kind of tears now!

 

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While many of the Americana honorees aren't household names, revered⁵ singer-songwriter John Prine was named Artist of the Year. Prine did not attend the show this year. Actor Billy Bob Thornton, soon to release his second CD, accepted the award on Prine's behalf.

 

Billy Bob: John's out there working for a living right now, and I've been asked to accept this on his behalf. And John Prine's my dear, great friend, and an amazing songwriter. When he first told me that the first song he ever wrote was "Hello in There," I kinda considered for a minute never trying to write a song. Thank you so much, from John.

 

Guy Clark was given a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in this Americana Awards this year. It was presented by Emmylou Harris, who noted⁶, "In a town where there are some pretty good writers, he really is our poet laureate."

 

When Marty Stuart took the stage at the Ryman Auditorium⁷ to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award for Performing, he noted that his career had begun on that same stage 33 years earlier, when he was a child prodigy⁸ playing mandolin with bluegrass star Lester Flatt. Stuart who spent years as mainstream⁹ country music star talked about his decision to return to his musical roots.

 

Stuart: Now the only thing I know after all these years of traveling, it's been a fantastic journey, it's been a wonderful journey, is that there's the chart, and there's the heart. It's great when they both line up. But given a choice, you'd better follow your heart. That's where it's at.

 

The evening also saw folk-pop star Judy Collins receiving a Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award from the First Amendment¹⁰ Center and the Americana Music Association. The founders¹¹ of Rounder Records were presented the Jack¹² Emerson Lifetime Acheivement Award for music executives. And the late John Hartford was honored with the AMA's President's Award.

 

The show was hosted by singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale, and included performances by Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and Arlo Guthrie. The evening's finale, led by Guthrie, and featuring Allison Brown on banjo, was Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans," a tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

 

I’m Katherine Cole.

 

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注释：

self-effacing [selfi5feisiN] adj. 不出风头的，谦让的

Nashville [5nAFvil] n. 纳什维尔

alcohol [5AlkEhCl] n. 酒精，酒

abuse [E5bju:z] n. 滥用

poet laureate 桂冠诗人

Ryman Auditorium 莱曼大礼堂

child prodigy 神童

mandolin [5mAndElin] n. 曼陀林琴

banjo [5bAndVEu] n. 班卓琴

1 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

2 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

3 beads   

n.（空心）小珠子( bead的名词复数 )；水珠；珠子项链

参考例句：

• a necklace of wooden beads 一条木珠项链
• Beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. 他的前额上挂着汗珠。

4 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

5 revered   

v.崇敬，尊崇，敬畏( revere的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation. 一些早年受到尊崇的惯例，现在已经成了这代人嘲弄的对象了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven. 中国人将谷物奉为上天的恩赐。 来自辞典例句

6 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

7 auditorium   

n.观众席，听众席；会堂，礼堂

参考例句：

• The teacher gathered all the pupils in the auditorium.老师把全体同学集合在礼堂内。
• The stage is thrust forward into the auditorium.舞台向前突出，伸入观众席。

8 prodigy   

n.惊人的事物，奇迹，神童，天才，预兆

参考例句：

• She was a child prodigy on the violin.她是神童小提琴手。
• He was always a Negro prodigy who played barbarously and wonderfully.他始终是一个黑人的奇才，这种奇才弹奏起来粗野而惊人。

9 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

10 amendment   

n.改正，修正，改善，修正案

参考例句：

• The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
• The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。

11 founders   

n.创始人( founder的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
• The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句

12 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。