Americana Highways invites you to vote for your favorite THREE releases of May 2020. The vote stays open until June 27th at 11:59pm EDT; results will be posted June 28th. Write in, if we overlooked one! The top three winners get placed on our monthly playlist, and just for being on the list you also […]
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By Jeff Burger If you’re surprised to see a blues album from Dion, you haven’t been paying attention. Yes, he is primarily known for his wonderful early-rock-era records with and without the Belmonts, but even in those days he delivered a smattering of blues tracks. And since then, Dion has periodically dipped into a blues […]
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A Rambling On Corona Time… Corona time is the walk into a zone that nobody anticipated or has experienced. It’s like living in a cloud. Quarantine, isolation, time apart, from people and things; a time to think, a chance to read, to cook, to walk and dream…to watch the President on TV…to be frustrated; to […]
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Vickikristinabarcelona – Pawn Shop Radio – Reworks the Songs of Tom Waits Vicki Kristina Barcelona (spelled as one long word) is a play on words from a similar Woody Allen film. The 3 ladies responsible for this are multi-instrumentalists: NY’s Rachelle Garniez, London’s Amanda Homi & Brooklyn’s Terry Radigan. What have they done? Well… They […]
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The results from the readers’ vote for favorite April 2020 releases are in! Congratulations top ten! The top three will be featured in our next playlist update by Laura Sikes. (Find the playlist any time, on our website’s homepage.) 1. Indigo Girls “Look Long” 2. the Claudettes “High Times in the Dark” 3. Marshall […]
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Little Orange Room Sessions is a one-take, one-shot, “living-room”-style performance video series recorded in Eugene, Oregon. Each two-song session is recorded in the 125 square feet that I use for mixing, producing, and sometimes even recording entire albums. Little Orange Room Sessions grew out of my crazy love of music and mixing, a growing curiosity […]
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Jake Blount – Spider Tales I’m often impressed by how proficient a young musician is when he applies his skill to a genre beyond his years. Jake Blount resurrects an Appalachian style on some originals & draws on its roots for an LP of traditional American, bluegrass, country, folk & African-American sources. Free Dirt Records’ […]
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On her new album All This Time (self-released), singer/songwriter Heather Anne Lomax (formerly known as the artist Michael-Ann) delivers an intense fusion of early rock and roll, blues, and Memphis-style soul that should instantly captivate any fan of those three genres. On this record, with a booming and powerful voice that echoes […]
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“Never has the mundane seemed so longingly attractive.” So declared Bruce Springsteen on his own E Street Radio radio show and series From His House To Yours. Springsteen has occasionally called into the radio station built upon him by SiriusXM. But In recent weeks, Springsteen has taken to the mic of E Street Nation playing […]
Continue ReadingNell & Jim Band – Western Sun Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally team to create engaging Americana-roots-alt-country music on a traditional path of balladry, bluegrass, folk, & a variety of other genres in a gloriously fluid showcase. Alabama’s Nell (flute/vocals/lyrics), Jim (acoustic guitar/banjo/vocals), Jim Kerwin (bass fiddle), Alex Aspinall (percussion), & Rob Reich (accordion/keyboards) keep the […]
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