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VOA常速英语听力2012年09月合辑（文本）：Americana-Music-Industry-Hands-Out-Honors Alabama Shakes, Gillian Welch and The Civil Wars all took home trophies when the 11th Americana Honors and Awards were handed out in Nashville on September 12. A number of lifetime achievement awards were given out as well. Booker T. Jones of Booker T The MG抯 fame opened the two-and-a-half-hour-long awards ceremony by performing his classic hit 揋reen Onions?with a star-studded band that included Richard Thompson on electric guitar. Both men received lifetime achievementiev awards from the Americana Music Association: Jones as an instrumentalist, and Thompson for his songwriting. Bestowing his award was Bonnie Raitt, who would later receive a trophy of her own. 揚erhaps the Americana Awards seems an odd place to celebrate the work of someone so intimately connected with the British folk revival, but it抯 the songs. Jo-El Sonnier抯 reading of Richard抯 Tear Stained Letter, Del McCoury抯 version of 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Alison Krauss and my own renditions of Dimming of the Day, which I抎 like to say he wrote in his 20s, Raitt said. It抯 the songs, a respect for and the awareness of the traditions from which they emerged. But mostly, it抯 just the magic of song. Oh, and he抯 a pretty legendary guitarist as well.? Later in the evening, Bonnie Raitt was given the Lifetime Achievement in Performance award by John Hiatt, who himself had received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in 2008. In his speech, Hiatt spoke of Raitt抯 years of singing the blues. 揝he抯 kept this sound alive, made it sing over thousands of shows down that sometimes hard road, always looking for the joy,?he said. Later, the pair took to the stage and performed John Hiatt抯 composition 揟hing Called Love,?later a hit for Bonnie Raitt. Gillian Welch was named Artist of the Year, and her guitar-playing partner David Rawlings took home the Instrumentalist of the Year trophy. The Alabama Shakes received the New/Emergi