BRANDI CARLILE, JOHN PRINE WIN TOP HONORS AT AMERICANA AWARDS

Said Prine, pulling out a piece of paper in the first of his two acceptance speeches, “At the Grammys, I was up for something. We had speeches then and I still got ’em,” he quipped. The veteran singer-songwriter was accepting for the song “Summer’s End,” about the opiate crisis, and “The Tree of Forgiveness,” his return to making an album of original songs after a long layoff.