There is an ambiance to “Blue Sky Moon,” the opening instrumental track of Sweden’s Daniel Norgren’s first worldwide release – Wooh Dang (Superpuma Records). Recording since 2007 – Daniel is not fresh out of the gate. However, for those who remember, this music is similar in approach to a fine 70’s folk-rock-singer-songwriter Shawn Phillips. He […]
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Denver-based band The Yawpers is ready to release its fourth full-length album, Human Questions (Bloodshot Records), a more concise record than their last effort, 2017’s concept album Boy In A Well. Before they head out on tour, which includes a record-release party in their home city, I spoke to lead singer and songwriter Nate Cook about […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Dango Rose’s “A La Glory,” the title track from the EP album due to be released in the fall. A La Glory was produced by Evan Reeves and Dango Rose, and recorded at Elephant Collective Studios in association with UI Sound Studios in Boulder, CO, under the auspices […]
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The Old Settler’s 32nd Annual Music Festival in Tilmon, Texas was a big success in spite of dramatic weather and temperature swings. The festival was ranked number five of the top ten music festivals in the US by USA Today. OSMF beat out some pretty big names in the festival world like, Austin City Limits […]
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Americana Highways presents this song premiere of Sean Whiting’s “Oh Well,” from his new album High Expectations due out on Eastwood Records on May 3rd. “Oh Well” features Sean Whiting, with David Prince on guitar, Chris Justice on bass and Hayden Miles on drums. With an energizing electric intro, and compelling, world-weary vocals, “Oh Well” […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Charlie Marie’s “Rhinestones” from her forthcoming self-titled album, due to be released May 3. The album was recorded at the Tracking Room in Nashville, engineered and mixed by Ben Klise, and mastered by Andrew Darby. Charlie Marie is Charlie Marie on vocals and acoustic guitar, Brian McKinnon on electric and […]
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Scratch the surface and you’ll find Will Kimbrough almost almost anywhere you look in the Americana music scene: he is the guitar playing, songwriting, singer onstage with people and playing on their records; the Alabama native who produces and plays in Nashville and radiates out from there; but this spring he is releasing a new […]
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It was shortly after 8:00 on Saturday night when a Facebook feed appeared on my page from Mitch Slater who was at the Tribeca Grill attending the 27th annual Kristen Ann Carr Fund benefit A Night to Remember. The event is named in honor of the daughter of Barbara Carr, Bruce Springsteen’s co-manager and her […]
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Americana Highways premieres this video of “Great Expectations” by Lovers Leap, from their self-titled EP which is due to be released on April 19. Lovers Leap is Shelby Means (Della Mae), Joel Timmons (Sol Driven Train) and Billy Cardine and Mary Lucey (both from Biscuit Burners). The video is a live performance of the four-piece […]
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