Folk Alley Radio Show – Americanafest 2026
This week on the Folk Alley Radio Show, we’ll hear the winners of this year’s 25th annual Americanafest awards: album, duo, emerging act, song, and instrumentalist of the year.
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Artist – Song – Album – Label
~Hour One~
Molly Tuttle – “That’s Gonna Leave A Mark” – ‘So Long Little Miss Sunshine’ – Nonesuch
Ringo Starr – “Look Up (feat. Molly Tuttle)” – ‘Look Up’ – Roccabella/UMG
Molly Tuttle – “The Highway Knows” – ‘So Long Little Miss Sunshine’ – Nonesuch
Dolly Parton (comp) – “Bound to Ride (feat. The First Ladies of Bluegrass)” – ‘Where The Soul Never Dies: Celebrating 80 Years of The Stanley Brothers’ – Compass
Molly Tuttle – “Rosalee (Acoustic)” – ‘So Long Little Miss Sunshine | Acoustic EP’ – Nonesuch
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – “Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss” – ‘All the Good Times Are Past & Gone’ – Acony
Ken Pomeroy – “Look at Miss Ohio” – ‘Tonight’s News EP’ – Rounder Records
Brandi Carlile – “Returning To Myself” – ‘Returning To Myself’ – Interscope / Lost Highway
Allison Russell – “The Returner” – ‘The Returner’ – Fantasty Records
Tyler Childers – “Nose On the Grindstone” – ‘Snipe Hunter’ – Hickman Holler
Loudon Wainwright III – “Dead Skunk” – ‘Album III’ – Sony
Greg Brown – “Smell of Coffee” – ‘Milk of the Moon’ – Red House
Amos Lee – “Windows Are Rolled Down” – ‘Mission Bell’ – Blue Note
The Kennedys – “Without Us” – ‘Smoketree’ – The Kennedys
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – “Let Me Fall” – ‘Sing Me Back Home – The DC Tapes, 1965-1969’ – Free Dirt
~ Hour Two ~
Margo Cilker – “Little White Cross” – ‘Molly and Me’ – Fossil Records
Tom Waits – “Take It With Me” – ‘Mule Variations’ – Epitaph
Iron & Wine – “California Sober” – ‘Hen’s Teeth (Deluxe Edition)’ – Subpop
Jake Blount – “Shady Grove” – ‘Single-Footing Horse’ – Jake Blount
10 String Symphony – “Black Eyed Suzie” – ‘Weight of the World’ – Poppychop Records
Angela Autumn – “Electric Lizard” – ‘Believer’ – Gar Hole Records
Simon & Garfunkel – “The Only Living Boy in New York” – ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ – Columbia
Laura Cortese – “Lucky Water” – ‘Lucky Water’ – Compass
Brad Kolodner – “Chirps and Williams” – ‘Chimney Swifts’ – Brad Kolodner
Elanor Moss – “Sarah Waiting in the Car” – ‘The Knife, The Needle’ – Merge
Ethan Setiawan & Fine Ground – “Ships at Sea” – ‘Little Storms’ – Adhyaropa Records
Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves – “Eighth of January” – ‘Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves’ – Free Dirt
Flatt & Scruggs – “When Papa Played the Dobro” – ‘The Fabulous Sound of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs’ – COLUMBIA
Bruce Cockburn – “Fare Thee Well” – ‘The Blood Of Others’ – Sunset Blvd Records
The Milk Carton Kids – “When You’re Gone” – ‘I Only See the Moon’ – Far Cry Records
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