The Dimmer Twins played last week at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina. In case you’re uninformed the “Twins” are the swashbuckling singing guitar twins Paterson Hood and Mike Cooley of the Muscle Shoals Al./Athens Ga. family known as The Drive-By Truckers! Hood and Cooley got this idea in their head to do an […]
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Americana Highways is pleased to bring you this premiere of the video for “A Birthday in the Pawnshop (Morristown)” by Meghan Hayes from her forthcoming record Seen Enough Leavers due out May 31. Seen Enough Leavers was produced by Dex Green and engineered by Joe Costa. “A Birthday in the Pawnshop (Morristown)” is Meghan Hayes on […]
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When he first came on the scene in 2015, Leon Bridges was being touted as the next soul giant: a modern Sam Cooke, with a little Aretha or Marvin thrown in – even down to his unassuming, often neutral-colored, retro-inspired, clothing choices, and certainly by the 60s soul, stripped-down Memphis grooves ala stax/volt/hi records, of […]
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Americana Highways brings you this song premiere: “Landslide” from a forthcoming compilation of previously unissued music by Chip & (the late) Tony Kinman covering songs from all their joint musical career incarnations: in Rank and File, Blackbird, The Dils and Cowboy Nation. Chip & Tony Kinman: Sounds Like Music, never before heard music from the […]
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By Jeff Burger A few weeks ago, I wrote about The Spirit of Radio, a box set of Bob Dylan interviews and performances dating from as long ago as 1962. Those were early days indeed for the former Mr. Zimmerman, but another collection turns the clock back even further: Carnegie Chapter Hall, which originally appeared […]
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Americana Highways brings you this song premiere of Pete Mancini’s “Back in Bakersfield” from his forthcoming release Flying First Class due out on May 3rd on Diversion Records. The album was recorded and mixed by Mick Hargreaves at Lantern Sound Recording and mastered by Scott Simon at Process Haus. “Back in Bakersfield” is Pete Mancini […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere track: “Won’t It Be Something” from the TrueHearts’ upcoming release Songs for Spike due to be released on June 21. The album was produced by Dave Coleman and The TrueHearts, recorded and mixed by Dave Coleman at Howard’s Apartment Studio in East Nashville, then mastered by Alex McCollough at […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of the title track from Sean McCollough’s children’s album Earworm, due to be released on May 11. The album was mixed at Little Thing Studios in Knoxville, TN and mastered by Seva at Soundcurrent Maastering in Knoxville, TN. Cover art is by Riley Bronaugh. Sean McCollough on lead vocals […]
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My 1965 discovery of J.J. Cale started as a kid. I bought a Liberty 45 of “It’s a Go-Go Place,” at 15 years old in Woolworths. Leon Russell produced. I played it until the grooves went white. But couldn’t find more. I waited. Then Grasshopper with “One Step Ahead of the Blues” on it. I […]
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If you’re into the storytelling of days past, from names like Marty Robbins or Johnny Cash, combined with good musicianship, then you’ll want to pay attention to Tylor and the Train Robbers newest album, Best of the Worst Kind, set to release on April 26th. This is the band’s second studio album; their first, Gravel, […]
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