Jason Isbell, Charley Crockett, top Americana's 2023 album, singles charts

The Americana Music Association has released its year-end Top 100 Americana Radio Airplay Charts for albums and singles of 2023. The same artists -- Alabama-born and Nashville-based Jason Isbell and Texan Charley Crockett -- occupy the top spots on both countdowns.

No other artists placed albums and singles on both charts.

Data reflects records reported to the CDX-powered Americana Radio Airplay Albums and Singles Charts from Jan. 10 through Dec. 12, 2023.

Isbell and the 400 Unit's June 2023-released "Weathervanes'" and its folk-rock track "When We Were Close," plus Crockett's Sept. 2022 "The Man From Waco" and its soul-stirring honky-tonk party groove "Trinity River" reached the year's pinnacle.

Notably, Isbell and the 400 Unit's "Death Wish" also reached No. 3 on the year's Americana Radio charts. As well, other "Weathervanes" tracks -- "King of Oklahoma" and "Cast Iron Skillet" -- are nominated at Feb. 2024's forthcoming Grammy Awards for Best Americana Performance and Best American Roots Song. "Weathervanes" is up for Best Americana Album.

The Tennessean described Isbell's eighth solo effort as setting a "gold standard for capturing the human experience in three-and-a-half minutes" by using a "storytelling magic akin to starting a new adventure with familiar friends" while not "[tip-toeing] around hard-to-swallow truths or long-buried vulnerabilities."

To The Tennessean, Crockett described the journey to "Man From Waco," his 11th studio album, as trying to go into "weird, scary places with [his] music" and define "cultural and political things that [he's] still learning how to touch that inspire [him]."

Attempting to break through a perceived vacuum of people observing his style and not himself as occupying a "primitive, nostalgic vacuum," he's achieved, via this type of acclaim, a rare timelessness via maintaining the same type of frenetic album release schedule as Johnny Cash and George Jones in their heyday.

For more information on the Americana Music Association's Albums and Singles charts, visit https://www.americanamusic.org.

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