Folk/pop singer/songwriter Cat Stevens famously walked away from the music business in 1978, but that wasn’t his first career turning point. (Nor was it his last; he has returned to making records in recent years.) The British artist—born Steven Georgiou and known as Yusuf Islam since his conversion to the Muslim faith—achieved some […]
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JRtheBand’s new video for the song “Rocketship” is a top notch, high class production. It features soaring drone footage of Four Peaks, Arizona by Carson Cloud (Cloud 9 Imaging — @thecarsoncloud on Instagram), along with the upward spiraling song and its message. Breathtaking footage taken with precision drone videography heightens the emotion of an already […]
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Buzzy Lee’s Spoiled Love, released January 29 via Future Classic, ruminates on love, loss, and the ever stranger times and places that mark life’s journey. Buzzy Lee is the recording moniker of Los Angeles based musician Sasha Spielberg. Spoiled Love, her recording debut, is the result of a collaboration with her long time musical partner, […]
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Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Chris Roberts’ song “Get Down” from his forthcoming album recorded by Tommy Dietrich at Skylab Studios, mixed by Andreas Sandnes and mastered by Evren Goknar. “Get Down” is Chris Roberts on vocals, Eli Wulfmeier on guitar, Adam Arcos on bass, Jake Abernathie on keys and Jason Ganberg on drums. In an easy […]
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I have reviewed in the past some well-polished Americana-country-folk-roots artists from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Australia, & New Zealand (Donna Dean) among others. Steppenwolf’s legendary lead vocalist John Kay (excellent acoustic LPs) is German. Milan, Italy’s Eugenio Finardi has released many LPs but one – an all-English blues LP “Anima Blues” charted in Texas. That brings […]
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Named for a freshwater hybrid fish — a sauger & walleye, the music is certainly smooth, slippery & lean. There’s nothing new here to get excited about musically but what is here is 11-satisfying songs, all well-written, performed & sung. There’s a little Goose Creek Symphony, Poco, Farm Dogs & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to […]
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Produced by Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief, Indigo Sparke’s Echo is simultaneously intimate and atmospheric; Sparke reaches for the stars in the midst of the everyday, the sacred amidst the mundane, as it wrestles with death and life in its shadow. The album title, Echo, mirrors Sparke’s soprano soaring reactions to life, but also to […]
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Americana Highways presents this premiere of Tamar Berk’s song “Better Off Meditating.” “Better Off Meditating” is from Berk’s forthcoming debut album The Restless Dreams of Youth. The album was mixed by Sean O’Keefe (Fallout Boy, Rachel Yamagata, Plain White T’s, Motion City Soundtrack) and recorded by Matt Thompson (Maita, The Hague) to help record. Matt Walker (Morrissey, […]
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Pony Bradshaw is an artist from northwest Georgia. It’s not easy to find information on him other than that he writes songs and is a natural dissenter. Even if you don’t know a lot about him, it’s easy to see from his new album that he has a real knack for writing songs. Calico Jim was […]
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photo by Melissa Clarke 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 […]
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