Americana Highways is pleased to premiere this single from Katie Kuffel’s upcoming album Take It Up: “Come Home.” Take It Up features Kuffel, rhythmnists Jon Robinson and Jordan Weigert; Kale Lotton on sax with Lana McMullen and David Kelly on vocal harmonies. It was recorded at Nickerson Studios in Seattle; and mixed and mastered by […]
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Some music slides into everyday life and acts as wallpaper while not leaving much of an impression. Other music fits a time, or a mood, or a situation. Perhaps I was influenced by my surroundings while listening to it (a subtly stormy afternoon), but Courtney Hartman and Taylor Ashton’s Been On Your Side (Free Dirt […]
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When I read interviews with Aaron Lee Tasjan in which he talked about emphasizing his Britpop influences on Karma For Cheap (New West), produced and recorded by Jeffrey Trott and Gregory Lattimer (and featuring Sheryl Crow), I was concerned. This summer, several albums by roots/Americana artists have come out that have stretched the boundaries of […]
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“I got my old man’s heart and a broke down Chevrolet.” So goes the refrain of the title track on Ryan Culwell’s The Last American (Missing Piece Records), a meditation on the dream that “you can be anything you want to be.” Culwell’s raspy, Texas-accented voice, supported by the ethereal guitar work of Megan McCormick […]
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The Weinberg Center for the Arts theatre in Frederick Maryland is a classic theatre with a full sized professional stage complete with velvet curtains, seating capacity of 1,183, and a nice little bar in the lobby. But even though Frederick is the second largest city in Maryland — outside the Baltimore/DC metropolitan areas — the […]
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Americana Highways presents Kane Miller’s song premiere “All We Need” from his forthcoming album due out next year. This album was produced by Femke Weidema (Liz Rose Studio), a female producer in Nashville who came originally from the Netherlands; and mixed by Josh Reynolds. Miller wrote the songs and plays the guitar and sings on […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Sylvia Rose Novak’s video for the song “Wildflowers” from her upcoming October 5th release Someone Else’s War. The album was recorded at Birmingham’s Ol Elegante by Lester Nuby III with Novak producing. The video was edited by videographer Meredith Singer. With Kellen Riley on guitar with Novak on […]
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The legendary Rodney Crowell held court at DC’s Hamilton Saturday night, playing a truly magical show that took his audience through a full range of emotions. My photographer, Michael Aarons, who was a little familiar with Rodney before the show, said he was “blown away.” From the opening act by Australian guitar prodigy Joe Robinson […]
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Americana Highways presents a song premiere from Austinite Ray Bonneville’s upcoming album At King Electric (Stonefly Records): “Papachulalay.” Bonneville wrote all the songs on this project, and co-produced it with Justin Douglas (Celine Dion, Chuck Hawthorne). In addition to Ray Bonneville (guitars, vocals & harmonica), the album features Richie Lawrence on accordian and electric piano, […]
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FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is the recording studio that produced ’60s-era smash hits by artists like Etta James, Little Richard, Arthur Alexander, Wilson Pickett, and Aretha Franklin. Then in the ‘70s along came the Osmonds, Mac Davis, Paul Anka , and Bobbie Gentry. More recently Americana artists like the Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell, […]
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