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Bones offers a mature and intense collection depicting the pain of grappling with loss in an increasingly inhumane world. Martin delivers tenderness and heartache side by side, offering a stark honesty deeply needed now more than ever.
Official Entries
Americana Album
“Bones”
Americana Performance
“Give Me Hell”
Country Solo Performance
“Old Red”
Country Song
“Old Red”
Summary
Southern-steeped and powerfully understated, Amy Martin’s songwriting stands sturdy against the Appalachian mountain range. In a genre ripe for uprising and subversive narratives, Martin’s stories are a welcome balm for the grieving, the outsiders and the dreamers. Her newest effort, Bones [July 2026], showcases sharp wit, poetic spirit, and an evolving sound, mixing elements of southern gothic, indie-folk, and alt-country.
Rooted in reckoning, Bones offers a mature and intense collection depicting the pain of grappling with loss in an increasingly inhumane world. With unrelenting sweetness amid the tough questions, she delivers tenderness and heartache side by side, offering a stark honesty deeply needed now more than ever.
Album credits
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Amy Martin
Artist, Songwriter, Co-Producer, Vocals, Guitar
Singer-songwriter / Performing Artist
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Chance McCoy
Producer, Mixing / Mastering, Electric, Pedal steel, Fiddle, Bass
Grammy Award-winning artist | Old Crow Medicine Show -
Jake Cochran
Drums, Percussion
Performing Artist | Illiterate Light
Featured Review
“Like its namesake, the album is intimate and exposed, but full of tenacity and tensile strength, communicated through a voice halfway between Brandi Carlile and Lucinda Williams, but with a warble of grace of its own . . . [her] earnest lyrics go toe to toe with anything Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clarke, or any of country’s contemporary poets has penned.”
— Stefanie Cuthbert