Americana Highways brings you this video premiere of Hawk’s song “She’s an Angel,” from their album Fly. Fly was produced by David Hawkins; engineered by David Hawkins, Ken Stringfellow, David Spreng, and Morgan Fisher; mixed by David Hawkins and Mike Hagler; and mastered by Mike Hagler at Kingsize Sound Labs in Chicago. “She’s An Angel” […]
Looking at the sepia tone album cover of the Workingman’s Dead 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, I give away my age when I say I remember my older brother having the original on 8-Track tape back when it came out in 1970. I remember my seven-year-old brain being somewhat mortified of it because the men […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Seattle based musician Norman Baker’s song “Levon, the Singing Drummer” that is set to be included on his album slated to be released later this year. Baker’s upcoming record was produced by Jim Roth of the Seattle rock band Built to Spill and features his backing band The […]
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Ever gone to a show and had an opening act grab you, to the point that you almost forgot whom you actually paid to see? Oklahoma’s Samantha Crain did just that to me a couple of years back. Just her songs, her guitar and her haunting voice were enough to hold my attention well past […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of John Shipe’s song “Love Ain’t Easy” from his forthcoming album The Beast Is Back, out September 25th, produced by Tyler Fortier. “Love Ain’t Easy” is John Shipe on vocals and guitar; Halie Loren on vocals; Bryan Daste on pedal steel; Mike Walker on organ; Jerry Abelin on bass; […]
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Americana Highways brings you this video premiere of Rachael Sage’s song “Blue Sky Days” from her recently released album Character (Acoustic). Character (Acoustic) was produced by Rachael Sage and Andy Zulla, engineered by Mikhail Pivovarov and Andy Zulla; mastered by Alan Silverman and recorded at The Carriage House, CT and Mishugas Studios in NYC. “Blue Sky […]
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Trump’s pardon of Roger Stone trends at the top of google news as if no one saw it coming. Houston is out of ICU beds. ERs are directing ambulance crews elsewhere. Trump’s pardon of Stone dominates the headlines. Who really gives a rat’s ass about Roger Stone? We have real problems that need to be […]
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Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’s most significant and best-known collaboration was in 1966 for the Beach Boys’ legendary Smile album, which remained unreleased for decades, though a bit of its material surfaced on 1967’s Smiley Smile. Parks contributed lyrics for that project, which gave birth to such elaborately constructed classics as “Heroes and […]
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From Springfield, IL, Drew Cooper is a singer-songwriter now residing in the unlikely rebel country climate Southern Arizona. Better known as Cooper, or Coop for short, he’s a husky voiced crooner delivering a gritty and convincing baritone with smart and simple accompaniment that matches the nature of the tales he sings. His newest effort is […]
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(Photo by Erick Anderson) “You gotta be from the South to know about boogers,” Charlie Daniels cracked. When Daniels strapped his guitar on five years ago at a show in Manassas, Virginia, he derived great suspense as a storyteller, recalling the mysterious holes in the ground that attract bugs, skeeters and boogers in “The Legend […]
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