Buddy Miller With Marc Ribot, 'Cold, Cold Heart'

XPN | By Bruce Warren

Published December 23, 2015 at 9:00 AM EST

A frequent winner at the Americana Music Association's Honors & Awards ceremonies, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Buddy Miller led this year's awards-show house band. His supporting players included Chad Cromwell, Fats Kaplin, Dominic Davis, Ian Fitchuk, Don Was, the McCrary Sisters and Little Feat founding member Bill Payne.

In a special feature, Miller was joined by guitarist Marc Ribot. Together — "with apologies to Hank Williams," he said — Miller performed an ornate cover of Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart."

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Bruce Warren

Bruce Warren is assistant general manager for programming of WXPN in Philadelphia. Besides serving as executive producer of World Café, Warren also contributes to Paste magazine and writes for two blogs: Some Velvet Blog and WXPN's All About The Music Blog.

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