From CMT.com 1/20/04

Folkies in Line for Lifetime Awards
The North America Folk Music and Dance Alliance will present lifetime achievement awards next month at its convention in San Diego for work done by the New Lost City Ramblers, Bess Lomax Hawes and the late Mississippi John Hurt. While the Ramblers and Hawes never graced the country music charts, they did much to fuel the folk music boom that echoed through country music in the 1960s via Marty Robbins, George Hamilton IV, Glen Campbell, Bobby Bare and others. Hawes, the daughter of famed folk music collector John Lomax, niched her place in history when she co-wrote the protest song "M. T. A." It became a hit in 1959 for the Kingston Trio. The Ramblers revived the rural string-band sounds of the 1920s and '30s that were once the mainstay of the Grand Ole Opry. In their zeal for musical authenticity, they became a template for groups like the Red Clay Ramblers, the Highwoods String Band and, more recently, the Old Crow Medicine Show.