Americana Highways presents a premiere of Folk Soul Revival’s self titled fourth album. Folk Soul Revival was mainly produced by Grammy award winning Chad Brown (Patty Griffin, Ryan Adams) at Ten Four Recording Company; some was produced by Barry Bales (Allison Kraus); and parts of the album were also recorded at Zach Brown’s Southern Grounds Studio. […]
On Jubilee, Bill Bloomer’s voice sounds like a(n even more) world-weary Tom Russell, with a gravelly voiced soaked in the whiskey he references so often in his songs. His weariness is unsurprising, given the weight of the political themes he wrestles with, such as the plight of Native Americans, which appears in multiple songs. In […]
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The honest simplicity is buoyed by a depth of instrumentalism that renders it a candidate for any Americana catalogue.
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“Midnight Train” will trigger waves of long-buried nostalgic homesickness with James’ mournful vocals over Snider’s fiddle phrases of longing; while the guitars and rhythm section thankfully prop you back up.
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In full disclosure, modern “Red Dirt” is not really my favorite sub genre of Americana. There just seems to be far too many similarities to what’s being pushed to commercial country radio these days. It seems that the identity and uniqueness the genre once had, has been lost in an attempt to cater to a […]
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I believe listening to music is analogous to forming a friendship. You have to get to know someone to become his or her friend. To me, albums are friends. Books are friends. And unless you spend time with them you’re never going to get to know how much they can mean to you.
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Americana Highways presents an exclusive song premiere of “Suddenly I’m Single,” from Texas musician Jim Wyly’s upcoming release The Artisan, due October 5th. While Wyly has spent several decades in bands like Movin Target and The Lunar Rollers, this is his debut solo album. Houston songwriter Libby Koch sings harmony vocals with Wyly on the track, […]
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There is an intimacy and frankness to his songs that soothe the mind like a biting, hand-warmed scotch.
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Walter Salas-Humara’s new release Walterio (Rhyme & Reason Records) sports one of his own paintings of a pug on the cover, and throughout the album it’s placed in various photographic settings as backdrops. Indeed, in addition to being a musician, Salas-Humara is a painter, mainly of dogs. [For more on that click one of these […]
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Shooter has everything you would expect from Jennings but it never rests on its laurels.
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