Americana Highways is honored to bring you this delightful video of J.D Wilkes performing the traditional “Rain and Snow.” The recording is from his recent critically acclaimed album released earlier this year Fire Dream (Big Legal Mess) — co-produced by Bruce Watson and Jimbo Mathus. [For our review of this album see here: REVIEW: J.D. […]
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Oklahoma’s own Carter Sampson had a big day Friday 10/26. Her new album “Lucky” was released by Tulsa’s Horton Records, and she played her first of several album release shows to commemorate its release. Taking the stage to a warm introduction from Blue Door owner and song champion Greg Johnson, Sampson wasted little time before […]
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I grew up listening to rock and roll songs sung mostly from the male perspective because, let’s face it, women were and still are underrepresented in rock and roll. When I was a teenager learning and performing songs that were originally sung by men, most of the time, I would choose to sing the song the way it was written, without changing the words to maintain a heterosexual narrative. It continues to be important to me to write and sing songs in a way that offers more than one viewpoint of love and sexuality.”
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Americana Highways brings you this video premiere of Mike Aiken’s “Nashville Skyline” from his recent album Wayward Troubadour (Northwind Records). There is an additional bonus track of “Put a Sail on It” track 12 on the vinyl release that came out October 26. Aiken says: The release on vinyl was made possible as part of […]
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Americana Highways is pleased to present this premiere of “The Ballad of Zona Abston” from Tellico’s upcoming album Woven Waters. This song was written by Anya Hinkle, and features Hinkle on guitar and vocals, Greg “Stig” Stiglets on bass, Aaron Ballance on dobro, Jed Willis on mandolin and John Doyle on bouzouki. This is a […]
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There has always been a strong connection between families and music in Appalachia – most notably with the Carter Family. On her new self-titled album Martha Spencer shows that the family connection is still strong in mountain music. One good example is the first song “Blue Ridge Mountain Lullaby” in which Spencer sings about falling […]
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In one line the Flatlanders tell you all you need to know about living in 2018. It’s the fearless who love and the loveless who fear
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Town Mountain has generally been known as a bluegrass band. On the new album New Freedom Blues (Tone Tree Music), the band weaves some country and rock sounds into the base bluegrass sound. If one of the keys to successful writing is to grab the audience’s attention immediately, then this band succeeds with the opening […]
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There are times when the stars align and an iconic musician plays at an iconic venue. That was the case last Friday night when musical legend, Ray Wylie Hubbard played the equally iconic Cain’s Ballroom. A diverse crowd attended the show, with twenty-somethings perching on bleachers and couples in their twilight years crowding around tables […]
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Austin singer-songwriter Carson McHone was playing Texas honky-tonks long before she could drink in them, and her 2015 debut, Goodluck Man, was populated with tunes inspired by those boozy nights. Her new release, Carousel (Nine Mile Records), contains both new songs and reconfigured older ones, fleshed out as the singer has grown with her material […]
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