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Sep 25, 2009 Sam Bush celebrates backstage with his Lifetime Achievement Award for an Instrumentalist at the Americana Music Association Honors and Awards ceremony on Thursday, September 17. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 The 2009 Americana Music Association’s New Emerging Artist Award winner Justin Townes Earle performs at BMI’s Modern Sounds in Country & Americana Showcase on Thursday, September 17. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 Celebrating backstage at the Americana Music Association Honors and Awards ceremony on Thursday, September 17 are Mary Gauthier, New & Emerging Artist of the Year Award winner Justin Townes Earle, and 2008 New & Emerging Artist of the Year-winner Mike Farris. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 Adam Landry (l) fine tunes his grandfather’s guitar before a performance with Pete Molinari (r) at BMI’s Modern Sounds in Country & Americana Showcase on Thursday, September 17. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 Executive Director of the Americana Music Association Jed Hilly (left) and BMI’s Kay Clary (right) congratulate John Fogerty (center) upon his receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at the Americana Music Association Honors and Awards ceremony on Thursday, September 17. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 New & Emerging Artist of the Year nominees The Belleville Outfit pause for a photo backstage at the Americana Music Association Honors and Awards ceremony on Thursday, September 17. Pictured are Jonathan Konya, Jeff Bowen, Phoebe Hunt, Marshall Hood, Connor Forsyth, and Rob Teter. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 Justin Collins (l) and Carrie Kotsionis (r) perform with Pete Molinari at BMI’s Modern Sounds in Country & Americana Showcase on Thursday, September 17. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 BMI’s Clay Bradley (l) moderates the “Writer/Publisher Relationship” discussion panel at the 2009 Americana Music Festival & Conference with input from Bug Music/Windswept’s John Allen, hit songwriter Billy Burnette, Still Working Music/Obrison Music’s Clay Myers, and hit songwriter Kendall Marvel. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 New & Emerging Artist of the Year Award winner Justin Townes Earle and manager Traci Thomas celebrate backstage at the Americana Music Association Honors and Awards ceremony on Thursday, September 17. View Photo

Sep 25, 2009 Pictured at BMI’s Americana Showcase at the 2009 Americana Music Festival and Conference are BMI’s Kay Clary and Bradley Collins; Pete Molinari; Justin Townes Earle; Baskery’s Greta, Stella, and Sunniva Bondesson; and BMI’s Clay Bradley. View Photo