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The War and Treaty: How the Best New Artist Grammy Nominees Came to Be ‘Friends’ With the Emmys, Too, and Win Over Superfan Zach Bryan


Country-soul duo the War and Treaty on their In Memoriam segment on the Emmys, their Grammy nomination for best new artist, and superfan Zach Bryan.

The husband-and-wife duo the War and Treaty will have a big presence during Grammy week, parlaying their nomination for best new artist into multiple performances on- and off-screen throughout the days leading up to and including the telecast. And so did a significant portion of the viewing audience get in on what has sometimes seemed like the entertainment industry’s worst-kept secret: that the War and Treaty are right up there with the biggest crowd-pleasers in the business. It sounds like you had to go through a transition of meeting your wife and realizing that you could write love songs too, but that was not your original impulse, with it starting as an expression of what was happening in wartime in Iraq.

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