The results from the readers’ vote for favorite July 2020 releases are in! Congratulations top ten! There was a tie for first place!! The top three (in this case, four) will be featured in our next playlist update by Laura Sikes. (Find the playlist any time, on our website’s homepage) 1) TIED FOR FIRST: Ten […]
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Formerly known as Smog, Bill Callahan established a reputation as an enigmatic brooding singer-songwriter with a penchant for life’s seemingly mundane moments. He has released seven (including Gold Record) albums under his own name since retiring the Smog moniker. Under his given name, Callahan hand has continued to explore similar corners of life but with […]
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For Many Moons, his tenth overall album since 2006, prolific folk singer-songwriter Jeremy Squires decided to do things a little differently. Having written a number of deeply personal and introspective songs on his analog keyboard over the last few years, Squires decided to deviate from the classic modern folk sound that he has become […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Kalyn Fay’s song “Make It” from her forthcoming album. “Make It” was produced by Jesse Aycock, tracked and mixed by Jason Weinheimer at Fellowship Hall Sound. Little Rock, AR with additional tracking by Dylan Layton at D-lay Studio inTulsa, OK. It was mastered by Carl Saff at Saff […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Nikki O’Neill’s song “That’s How You Lose Her,” from her forthcoming album World is Waiting. World is Waiting was produced by Nikki O’Neill and Joshua “Cartier” Cutsinger. It was primarily recorded at Hayloft Studios in Los Angeles, CA except “That’s How You Lose Her” was recorded at BonfireLA […]
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Americana Highways brings you this song premiere of Doug Walther’s “Sit Back and Try to Relax,” the title track from his forthcoming album. Walther wrote all six of the original songs on the album, played all the instruments, and did all the recording, mixing and mastering. With a classic folk song approach complete with Kazoo […]
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Americana Highways invites you to vote for your favorite THREE releases of August 2020. The vote stays open until September 29th at 11:59pm EDT; results will be posted September 30th. 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 The Grateful Dead’s first three albums—their eponymous 1967 debut, 1968’s Anthem of the Sun, and 1969’s Aoxomoxoa—feature psychedelia-influenced, experimental, sometimes sprawling numbers that reflect the milieu of the group’s Haight-Ashbury home base in San Francisco. On their June 1970 fourth studio album, however, they follow such artists as Bob Dylan (1968’s John […]
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Americana Highways presents this premiere of Jim White’s song “Sum of What We Have” from his forthcoming album Misfits’ Jubilee, out Oct. 23. The album was mostly recorded at Studio Caporal in Antwerp, Belgium. Musicians are Jim White, with Marlon Patton on drums, Geert Hellings on guitar and banjo, and Nicolas Rombouts on electric and […]
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R.B. Morris – Going Back to the Sky RB Morris seems to cover a wide gamut of endeavors. Poetry, playwright, solo work, & bandleader. He’s performed in many genres: rock, swampy folk, high lonesome bluegrass & lounge jazz. Like Leonard Cohen, he sculptures lyrics into tales & chooses words carefully. It makes his music interesting. His […]
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