2024 A Year of Young and Old in Americana
Rosanne Cash's heart-warming tribute to Kris Kristofferson provided a sad highlight of Americana music in 2024 Perhaps the most...
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Americana News
Nov 173 min read
A Family Feel to Dwight's New Album
Singer-songwriter great Dwight Yoakam has released his 16th studio album and the first for nearly a decade. In between his last, Dwight's...
Nov 65 min read
How Americana Does The Beatles
“Beatles Go Americana” screamed one headline in the music media when it was announced that Lucinda Williams will release a new album...
Nov 15 min read
Willie Nelson Delivers #76
Nothing personifies the seemingly-everlasting life of 91-year-old Willie Nelson more than this stanza - The autumn took the rest/ But it...
Oct 226 min read
Play It James
James Burton has become the 17th artist to be inducted into both the Country Music and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And at 84, Burton is one...
Oct 165 min read
Unique Reflection on Life by Kasey Chambers
Want to tell the world about your divorce? Maybe even do it with your ex? Even better, why not write a song about it. And better still...
Oct 123 min read
An Special Essay of Remembrances
Of all the tributes to music legend Kris Kristofferson in the past week, the one many will remember most was from the daughter of another...
Sep 303 min read
A Great Lyricist Has Gone
There is no one better qualified to write a eulogy to Kris Kristofferson than the great singer-songwriter himself. His lyrics were some...
Sep 206 min read
Definition Debate at Special Anniversary of Americana Music Association
It is now 25 years since a bunch of music executives got together in Austin, Texas, and lamented on the fact that country radio was not...
Sep 154 min read
Bluegrass Salutes Folk Legend
It is now more than six decades since Tom Paxton was among the founding artists on the famous Greenwich Village music scene in New York...
Aug 306 min read
Ry Cooder Heads Unique Concept Album
If you have ever trekked across the expansive landscape of a national park and wondered what music might be suitable on your headphones,...
Aug 244 min read
New Album Out of Ruins
When Gilliam Welch sang Lord, Tear My Stillhouse Down in 1996 she could not have imagined that her creative musings would be literally...
Aug 234 min read
Carter Cash Celebrates Famed Multi-Instrumentalist
There are fewer greater names in country/roots music than John Carter Cash, son of legends June Carter and Johnny Cash and grandson of...
Jul 205 min read
Steve Earle Goes Back to the Future
Steve Earle’s standing as a singer-songwriter in the top echelon of Americana artists cannot be denied. And it is no better illustrated...
Jul 113 min read
Fine Contemporary Tribute to Old Time Music
It is 20 years since the Virginia Assembly designed what was known as The Crooked Road as Virginia’s Music Trail, a 333-mile drive that...
Jun 305 min read
Treasure from the Johnny Cash Vault
Got a spare 30 minutes? And want to hear 11 original songs that you have never heard before from one of the great voices in modern music?...
Jun 264 min read
Legends Issue Second Impressive Album
Texan Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Californian Dave Alvin are music stalwarts in their respective States, with each having written a classic...
Jun 44 min read
Willie Nelson Leads an Ageless Revolution
As octogenarian Joe Biden slowly shuffles across the stage at another campaign rally this summer, two of the greatest artists in popular...
Apr 215 min read
Intense Row over Jason Isbell Tribute Song
The creative license of songwriters to implicate individuals - either living or dead - in their work has suddenly been brought into sharp...
Apr 124 min read
Big Names Back Indie Debut Release
Every so often, the release of an artist’s debut album reveals a feel-good story in the music industry. And this is a one of the best! It...
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