Jay Dee Maness is an acclaimed pedal steel guitar player who played on the Byrds’ 1968 Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia). Lloyd Green was the second steel guitar player on that album, and as a 50th anniversary commemoration, together the two of them have created an instrumental tribute to that album: Journey to the Beginning: […]
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Everybody has tried to take the hillbilly out of the bluegrass. But really bluegrass needs to have a little roughness to it, although it still has to be played with this fantastic precision.
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The music covers a range of styles from country with a hint of bluegrass, to traditional and progressive bluegrass, but all along the way it’s 100% Americana.
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Ambel flat out flaunted his sick rock guitar prowess, and Borges belted out her radically unique intonations.
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It’s a wonderful, classic slice of Americana, and a stranger tree than any we’ve climbed before with Prine.
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Americana is a “soul stew;” it has elements of several different American roots-based music genres played by actual musicians on actual instruments; it reflects what our nation is, we are a melting pot.”
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Sometimes I think the point is missed that guys like Townes Van Zandt were real rebels. Those people had an edge, they were dangerous people…. Are the Drive-By Truckers Americana? That’s just “deep man’s thinkin’ rebel music” to me.
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The entire night unfolded very unlike an average listening room gig and very much like a reincarnation of a burlesque carnival show.
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It was a night of history lessons, songs of troubadours past and present, and the most incredible band you’ll ever see.
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These boys are the heirs apparent to the Southern guitar royalty of the Allman Brothers and the halcyon days of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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