Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche – I Can Still Hear You With the death of Kate McGarrigle (the McGarrigle Sisters from Canada) the output of that beautiful music began to fade in 2010. Like The McGarrigle’s, the Park Ridge, NJ trio of The Roches also had sadness when their eldest sister Maggie passed in […]
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At the advent of Halloween, Americana Highways presents this video premiere of Nate Schweber’s “Halo of Blue,” a song from his recent release Gaps. Gaps was produced and mixed by Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, engineered by Tim Hatfield, mastered by Mario Viele, and recorded at Cowboy Technical Services. Enjoy timely imagery of last year’s Halloween parade […]
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Jeremiah Johnson – Unemployed Highly Annoyed It seems Jeremiah Johnson has time on his hands since Covid-19 unemployed many people in the entertainment business. Set to perform at many venues in early 2020 the pandemic struck & performers were home. This tightly performed 8-cut LP seems to attack the issue on “Burn Down the Garden,” […]
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Devin B. Thompson – Tales of the Soul It’s nice to hear someone young tackle traditional soul music. While there aren’t many singers who journey down this road with a silky vocal, tight groove & beat, tasty background singers & well-arranged melodies, Devin does. The opener (Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “Love to See You Smile” – […]
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Americana Highways’ PLAYLIST, “Downstate,” curated by Rodney Metoyer on Apple Music has been newly updated! Follow to listen to fresh updates once or twice a month. You may also find the top three winners, or more, from our monthly reader poll for favorite new album the month before mixed in with other new Americana and roots […]
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Natalie Schlabs is a singer-songwriter who was raised in Texas and now lives in Nashville. Not surprisingly, her roots are in country music. But sometimes artists shift away from what they have been known for, and Schlabs has done that on the new album Don’t Look Too Close, which was written mostly when she was […]
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Music, more so than in any other year in my nearly half-century on this planet, has served as comfort food in 2020. As much as I love/need/crave the new stuff, I’ve found myself returning to old favorites more often than usual. Van Halen and Bruce Springsteen were two of my first “grown-up” bands. Of course, […]
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Through the decades I found LPs, songs & artists that were largely ignored. Slipped between the cracks, lost to history, tax-write off, relegated to the $1.99 bin of the sliding pond record biz. Many good artists suffer a lack of promotion/distribution, or a record company gone belly up. Some artists are successful — but not […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Margie Singleton’s song “Never Mind,” the title track from her EP due to be available on November 20. Never Mind was produced by Steve Shelby Singleton and Derrick Dexter Mathis. “Never Mind” is Margie Singleton on vocals, Elmer “Stubby” White on bass; Stanley “Stumpy” White on drums; Issac […]
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Once upon a time in 2017, tenor saxophonist John Fournier and trumpeter Marques Carroll, between takes at a recording session with famed singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks, struck up a conversation in which they discovered that were both dealing with the tumultuous state of the world in much the same manner – by listening to and […]
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