Songwriter John Hiatt will receive the BMI Troubadour Award at a Nashville ceremony, only the third artist to receive the honor
Mark Reinstein/Shutterstock, whose songs have been recorded by a wide range of artists from Bonnie Raitt and Willie Nelson to Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop, will be honored next month by the performing-rights organization BMI with the presentation of its Troubadour Award.
At the private ceremony in Nashville on September 9th — the week of the Americana Music Festival & Conference — Hiatt will become only the third such honoree of this particular award, after 2015 recipient Robert Earl Keen and John Prine, who . The honor, according to a statement from BMI, “celebrates writers who craft for the sake of the song and set the pace for generations of writers who will follow.”A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Hiatt previously received the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in 2008 and has accumulated a total of nine Grammy nominations over the past four decades. His 24th studio LP,Observatory.
Hiatt is currently on tour, with a string of upcoming shows in Colorado that begin in Grand Junction on August 10th.
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