Americana Highways proudly presents this YouTube documentary Even If Your Voice Shakes, a creation by Ryan Harvey covering a project that has produced songs by Woody Guthrie as a 4- song EP companion to the video. The album, I Don’t Like the Way This World is A-Treatin’ Me (Omnivore), will be available during Record Store […]
Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Melody Guy’s “Dry the Rivers,” the title track from the album released in January 2019. The album features Melody Guy on acoustic guitar and vocals, Michael Webb on B3 organ, bass, and piano, Rick Lonow on drums and percussion, Gary Nichols on baritone guitar, Chas Williams on dobro […]
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Americana Highways presents this opening track “He Don’t Understand” from the Hollering Pines’ upcoming album, Moments in Between, due to be released in June. The album features Marie Bradshaw on vocals and acoustic guitar, Kiki Jane Sieger on vocals and bass guitar, Daniel Young on drums and percussion; with Horton Smith on mandolin, guitars, cello and […]
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By Jeff Burger I’m obviously not the only Buddy Holly fan who wonders how much he could have achieved if an Iowa airplane crash hadn’t prematurely ended his career in February 1959. He was just 22 when he died; and though he had been pursuing music professionally for only about four years, he had already produced […]
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Americana Highways brings you this lyric video premiere of “Hypnotized” by Bob Hillman, from his Some of Us Are Free, Some of Us Are Lost, which was produced by Jonny Flaugher and engineered by Pierre de Reeder (Rilo Kiley). “Hypnotized” features Hillman, with Rich Hinman on electric and slide guitar, Phil Krohnengold on piano and […]
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Jimbo Mathus has covered a lot of ground since his days in Squirrel Nut Zippers mostly because he isn’t content to make the same sort of album repeatedly. Incinerator (Big Legal Mess/FatPossum) has a definite country feel, but not in the vein of country that you hear on the radio. Part of Mathus’s exploration of […]
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Americana Highways is honored to premiere this title track from Will Kimbrough’s hotly anticipated I Like it Down Here, due to be released on April 19 on Soundly Music. “I Like it Down Here” is Will Kimbrough, with Chris Donohue on bass, Bryan Owings on drums and percussion, and Lisa Oliver-Gray on harmony vocals. This […]
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Americana Highways brings you this track premiere of “Deeper Than Hell,” from forthcoming record West Towards South (Floating Records) by Jeffrey Halford and the Healers, due on April 19. The album was produced by Adam Rossi, Jeffrey Halford and Don Zimmer, and recorded in San Francisco and Marin, California. All of the songs feature The Healers: […]
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Americana Highways presents this premiere of Daniel Donato’s video for “Sweet Tasting Tennessee,” which was written by Daniel Donato and Brooks Hubbard. The track “Sweet Tasting Tennessee” was produced by Luke Levenson and Daniel Donato at Sound Emporium in Nashville. The video’s audio was recorded separately and was directed by Daniel Donato with WebLogic. The […]
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Americana Highways is pleased to present this premiere of “Nothing But Sky” from Unspoken Tradition’s upcoming album Myths We Tell Our Young (Mountain Home Music Company). The album was produced by Scott Barnett and Unspoken Tradition. “Nothing But Sky” is Audie McGinnis on guitar and vocals, Zane McGinnis on banjo, Lee Shuford on bass and […]
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