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The 25th Annual Americana Honors & Awards will take place September 16th at the Ryman Auditorium. The show is a signature element of AmericanaFest which will take place from September 15-19 in Nashville. The Association has revealed that Robert Plant is the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award:

The organization offers these thoughts on its honoree:

Throughout his life, Robert Plant has had an abiding love of roots music, both vintage and modern – of blues, folk, gospel, country and those tantalizing sounds that lie in between. Since first achieving worldwide acclaim as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, his curiosity has continued to lead him across musical genres, including into the heart of American roots music: he is one of its most passionate advocates and celebrated interpreters.

Plant’s groundbreaking collaborations with Alison Krauss and producer T Bone Burnett on the Grammy Award-winning Raising Sand not only introduced millions of listeners to the depth and artistry of Americana music but also helped elevate the genre. This pivotal period led the Recording Academy to establish a Best Americana Album category. Plant continued his exploration of American roots music with his collaborators Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller and others for Band of Joy and again on a second duet album with Krauss, Raise the Roof. More recently, on his record, Saving Graceand its follow up EP Saving Grace: All That Glitters… he joined with singer Suzi Dian and a band of musical compatriots from near his home on the Welsh borders to record songs by Gillian Welch, Memphis Minnie and Blind Willie Johnson, Bob Moseley (Moby Grape), Martha Scanlan, Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk’s Low, Sarah Siskind, and The Low Anthem, among other Americana gems, to much critical acclaim.

Tickets for the 25th Annual Americana Honors & Awards are now on sale.