When I look back on 2020, it felt like it barely started before it was over. For me it effectively ended on a March night in New York when I saw one of the greatest shows of my life. It was around midnight when the dual guitars of Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes culminated in […]
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2020 was a time of tremendous loss, and before we finish sending last year on its way to wherever it is that bad years go, we have one last chance to say goodbye to Justin Townes Earle. A few months after Earle died last summer, his father announced an album of his son’s songs, with […]
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Like many Bruce Springsteen fans, I’ve always pondered what I would say if I ever ran into him. As scenario planning goes and to be prepared, I’ve mapped it out in my mind several times and it always comes back to something like this. “There’s this great book It’s Too Late To Stop Now,” I […]
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Americana Highways’ Key to the Highway series Fans always clamor to learn more about their favorite, most beloved musicians and those who travel with them. There’s such an allure to the road, with its serendipity, inevitable surprises, and sometimes unexpected discomforts. This interview series is a set of questions we are asking some of our […]
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Continuing with artists under the radar with Chris Rea – a musician that average Americans still say “who?” Despite recording & performing since 1973 & having sold more than 30 million records worldwide. “Never heard of him…” but Elton John did. He recorded a duet with Chris who had a prior hit in the US […]
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2020 has been a hard year on a global, national, and personal scale. Of all the things that continued to propel me forward this year, music has been at the forefront serving as a healing aid in the most isolated of times. I realize that 2020 may carry a great deal of stigma, but from […]
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Americana Highways’ playlist Road Trip to Yesterday, curated by Laura Sikes, is newly updated today! Follow to listen to fresh updates, and find the top three winners from our monthly reader poll for favorite new album the month before mixed in with other new Americana and roots rock songs, PLUS classic old favorites! FOLLOW! Enjoy! […]
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Like a lot of writers I love making lists and I had a blast putting the list you see below together. The entries are unranked on purpose because I feel like putting a number beside them would cheapen the process in that it would suggest a super qualitative decision on my part. I approach listening […]
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Ana Cristina Cash is a singer – songwriter who is based in Nashville and who is married to John Carter Cash, the only child of Johnny and June Carter Cash. Her critically acclaimed jazz infused country album Shine, which was produced by her husband, was released in April of this past year and like […]
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This January 29th, 2021, Americana duo 3 Pairs of Boots will release their second album, Long Rider, inspired by the true life adventures of Bernice, the Lady Long Rider. The themes on the album are relatable, especially since all of our lives feel like a far journey with discoveries made along the way. Singles “Summer […]
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