R. Finn’s new release Collecting Trip (Heritage Recording Co) features a host of heavy hitting Americana musicians backing R. Finn’s elegant, sincere songwriting and flawless musical consciousness.
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It’s a whirlwind celebration of music inspired by living in the kind of landscape that combines the yin and yang of weather, fauna and living life in all its contradictory elements.
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Kyle Carey’s album The Art of Forgetting (World Music Network’s Riverboat Records) features a track with Rhiannon Giddens on vocal harmonies, and was produced by 4-time Grammy winner Dirk Powell. An English-speaking American, Kyle Carey spent her early childhood in Alaska immersed in the Eskimo language of Yup’ik. Later, in Nova Scotia, she learned […]
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Americana Highways recently talked to Americana musician DL Marble from Tempe, Arizona about the energy in the Americana community there, his upcoming album, and Mexico. Asked what landscapes inpire his songwriting, Marble had this to say about the uniqueness of living in Arizona. “Our ability to take in a wide assortment of landscapes is […]
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Jimbo Mathus’ new release on the Solo Sounds label, Solo Blues Guitar: Jimbo Mathus Performs Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, is both exactly what its title says, and yet infinitely more. Lucinda Williams fans will groove on the solo blues guitar interpretation of one of her best albums, which is an unbelievable […]
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Mary Gauthier’s Rifles & Rosary Beads (In the Black) is a breathtaking collection of heartbreaking, authentic songs co-written with American veterans and their families, through a project called Songwriting With Soldiers. Songwriting With Soldiers organizes songwriting workshop retreats during which the projects are initiated collaboratively, with the resulting albums available for a donation. Michele […]
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John Moreland’s Big Bad Luv (4ad) is an alt-country, roots-rock Americana music lover’s dream. From start to finish it’ll possess you and run your emotions through the gamut of love, fear, pain and joy and back again, and draw them all out into the big wide-open country sky. Produced by Moreland himself in Little Rock, […]
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The album gives you a lucky 13 takes and is a real whirlwind of delight from start to finish.
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The Christmas albums treat us to beauty and clarity with enough depth and grit to satisfy even the staunchest seekers of complexity. These offerings prove you don’t need bells or a tambourine, or even words or vocals to reach a person’s soul.
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