Americana Highways’ playlist Road Trip to Yesterday, curated by Laura Sikes, is newly updated today! Follow to listen to fresh updates every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. On the 4th Thursday, find the top three winners from our monthly reader poll for favorite new album the month before mixed in WITH other new Americana […]
Americana Highways presents Ags Connolly’s video premiere for his song “Wrong Again (You Lose a Life),” the title track from his upcoming album due to be available on November 1st. The album was produced by Connolly at Woodworm Studios in his home county, and features accordionist Michael Guerra (The Mavericks) and fiddle player Eamon McLoughlin […]
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After extensive touring on the back of a Grammy win for A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, Sturgill Simpson went back into the woods. Turns out, he “spent the last year going out of [his] mind”. So on a Sunday night, in Brooklyn, he was characteristically tight lipped. Sound & Fury did most of the talking. […]
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The first time I saw Ian Noe, he was opening for Colter Wall in London UK. I got there early, hoping to get nice and close to stage to see Colter do his thing. Noe came on stage, unaccompanied. I admit, I had been still talking to darling girl when he announced his name […]
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Americana Highways brings you this song premiere from John Salaway’s forthcoming album Americana Dreams, due out on October 25. “You better Believe” is John Salaway on drums, bass, acoustic guitars, vocals, and percussion; Kelsey Steele on co-lead vocals, with lead guitar and dobro by Stuart Montez. Salaway really shows off his knack at blending groovy […]
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There are circumstances that unquestionably reinforce your opinion of people. This undoubtedly was one of those situations. A little context, AHI, though originally from Ontario, now joins a formidable list as one of Toronto’s prized musical exports. The singer-songwriter has been nominated for a Juno in the Contemporary Roots Album of the year category. Previously, […]
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Kendell Marvel is a songwriter whose songs you may have heard even if you didn’t realize it. His songs have been recorded by artists like Chris Stapleton, Blake Shelton, and Lee Ann Womack, among others. Marvel is still very much an artist that writes earnest country songs. However, there is a difference between Solid Gold […]
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Have you ever been so consumed by a song, an artist, an album that you listen to them non-stop? That sometimes the song you love most makes you cry and then sometimes it makes you think? That you wonder what the artist experienced and how they can speak to you so directly with their songs? […]
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Pieta Brown, Freeway. There aren’t any other singers like Pieta Brown. She has a sensuous way of blending the sound of air with music notes that result in magic. It’s as if the clock stops and life’s fascinating mysteries are frozen on the edge of a falling leaf. Her voice is evocative of a time […]
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4 photos by Missy Curtis; marquee photo by Jason Davidson Drive-By Truckers @ The Princess Theatre Decatur, AL 9.27.19 Always go to the show. It’s a mantra I try and live by especially when it comes to bands I like. Native sons, the Drive-By Truckers, decided Decatur, Alabama needed a double shot of the […]
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