Americana Highways’ Key to the Highway series Photo by Melissa Payne Fans always clamor to learn more about their favorite, most beloved musicians and those who travel with them. There’s such an allure to the road, with its serendipity, inevitable surprises, and sometimes unexpected discomforts. This interview series is a set of questions we […]
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Young songwriters often face a dilemma – the age-old axiom of “write what you know” versus a hesitancy to divulge too much of their still-forming personalities. After all, many folks become songwriters precisely because they’ve found it so hard to express themselves in more immediate forms of communication. Songs offer some level of anonymity, but […]
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Americana Highways presents this premiere of the title track from Chris & Adam Carroll’s upcoming release Good Farmer, produced by Lloyd Maines, which will be available to hold in your hot little hands on August 9th. “Good Farmer” is Chris Carroll on vocals and mandolin, Adam Carroll on guitar and harmony vocals, with Dennis Ludiker […]
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Seen Enough Leavers is Meghan Hayes’s 3rd full album release and is a powerful statement about not only the struggles life throws at you, but her way of making it through. She builds this album much in the same way that you build yourself up after a tough time: by gathering some friends/family together and […]
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By Bill Bentley Matt Andersen, Halfway Home by Morning. Sounding like it was recorded in a soulful sweat lodge, this is music meant to twist the heart into unique shapes and remind the world that love is a many-splendored thing. Canadian Matt Andersen has a voice that never fails to make the spirit shudder, and […]
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One of summer’s most anticipated releases is the debut album from the Allman Betts Band, Down To The River, which releases on June 28thvia BMG. The band has already been heavily touring in pre-support of the release, and undoubtedly will continue to do so. I attended an early show of the tour and you can […]
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Saxophone player extraordinaire Mindi Abair (Aerosmith and Duran Duran) and the Boneshakers are releasing No Good Deed (Pretty Good For A Girl Records) on June 28th. The Boneshakers feature Abair, Randy Jacobs (Bonnie Raitt) on guitars and vocals, Rodney Lee on B3, piano, synthesizers and vocal; Third Richardson on percussion and vocals; and Ben White […]
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I wait for artists like this – someone who modernizes the traditional rock & roll heart & polishes it to a high sheen. I listen to Chuck & hear my blissful listening days of Ohio’s Donnie Iris, high haired Robert Gordon, a tinge of Robert Hazard, Dylan with singing lessons Mason Ruffner, Americana’s original Don […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere track from Jordi Baizan’s “Pictures on the Wall” from his upcoming release Free and Fine, produced by Walt Wilkins. Free and Fine is Jordi Baizan on vocals and acoustic guitar, Ray Rodriguez on drums and percussion; Bill Small on bass; Chip Dolan on piano, wurlitzer piano, B3 organ; Walt Wilkins on acoustic guitar […]
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Since no one but the most devoted of fans feels compelled to pay for music anymore, artists have had to find other ways to support themselves. Merch, house shows, bigger tip jars – it’s all been done. But the backbone of just about any musician’s income is constant – nearly incessant – touring. One upshot […]
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