I’m sure life isn’t easy when you are the son of someone famous and you go into the same field. The expectations can’t be fair and many people fold and disappear under that unique kind of pressure. Justin Townes Earle had moments where it looked like he would be the sort to fade away into […]
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Being a fan of Americana (known by some as “sad cowboy music”) can sometimes lead a listener to feel like a sort of tragedy vulture – so many of the songs we love are borne out of life’s misfires, but we reap the sonic benefits from a songwriter’s toughest times. Last year, Knoxville’s Brian Paddock […]
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“It’s great to be here at the Astrodome,” Adam Carroll said in a sly Texan drawl. “I’ve always wanted to play here.” Standing onstage in the cavernous basement of Hill Country Barbecue in Washington DC, Adam Carroll and his wife Chris Carroll must have felt like they were a long way from home. But here […]
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I had the opportunity to catch Jerry Joseph out of his element recently. It was an unnaturally hot day in Nashville for this early in May as I walked into City Winery. Set at the back of the upstairs lounge were three stools and more instruments than I expected to see for a 7pm Monday […]
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Vote for your favorite THREE releases this month, May 2019. This is a month with a late Friday so the vote stays open until June 13th at 11;59pm EDT; results will be posted June 14th. Write in, if we overlooked one! What's Your Favorite May 2019 Release? (vote for three; or write one in!) […]
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Where do you even begin to describe Elizabeth Cook? Do you begin with her work? Singer, Sirius XM Outlaw host, voiceover actress? Or do you describe her past? The youngest daughter of a hillbilly singer and a moonshiner who played bass in a prison band? Favorite guest of David Letterman? However you want to describe […]
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Marc Broussard brought his “bayou soul” to the Tower Theatre last Friday night. I had a pretty good idea what to expect, though it was over 15 years since I last saw Broussard perform. That last opportunity had been in 2003 just prior to his major label debut, “Carencro” released in the fall of 2004. […]
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Americana Highways presents this double premiere of two Gary Nicholson — a.k.a Whitey Johnson– songs from his two upcoming releases. For decades, Gary Nicholson has been actively producing, performing, and writing songs of which more than 600 have been recorded by folks like Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr and many others. And although he has […]
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Ian Noe’s new album Between the Country is a masterful piece of work. Every lyric, phrase of the guitar, and every bit of emotionally delivered line is quite simply, perfect. If one had the ability to plan one’s career from 30 years down the road, this would be the first album that you’d make to […]
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COTTON PATCH KIDS The first thing I noticed when I got to the Kimbrough Cotton Patch Soul Blues Festival in Holly Springs, MS, for a daytime van tour of north Mississippi hill country blues sites was that the van had left early. I had left Memphis a touch late and was reassured when I pulled […]
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