A Philly Special Christmas Special Jason and Travis Kelce pretty much took over the world in 2023. The Philadelphia Eagles center and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end host a highly rated podcast, played against each other in the Super Bowl, and even helped land their mom Donna a soup commercial. Rumor also has it […]
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Zach Russell – Where the Flowers Meet the Dew We music writer types like to get our annual “best of” lists finished up by late November because, quite honestly, not much fresh music hits our inboxes after that (also – it allows us to dip into the spiked eggnog a little sooner). However, during the […]
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The Wilder Blue – Super Natural The last night of AmericanaFest carries the added pressure of not wanting to miss anything, because it’ll be a year before you can hear this much good music in such a short amount of time. Myself and several of my fellow Americanans showed up at Basement East for the […]
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Low Water Bridge Band – Back to the Valley If a band loves its home enough, it can write and play songs that make the listener ache for a place they’ve never even been. Low Water Bridge Band hails from the Shenandoah Valley of Western Virginia, and their country-Southern rock-string band hybrid evokes not only […]
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Vincent Neil Emerson – The Golden Crystal Kingdom Some artists start their career by telling their origin story on Day One (Margo Price leading off her debut album with “Hands of Time” springs to mind). Others, like Vincent Neil Emrson, prefer to settle in a bit first. His debut, 2019’s Fried Chicken & Evil Women, […]
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Todd Snider – Crank It, We’re Doomed Last week, a “new” song from the Beatles was released – a late-era John Lennon solo tune with contributions from his erstwhile bandmates (a rather creepy video for “Now and Then” was also cooked up, but the less we say about that, the better). Much more interesting – […]
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Jaime Wyatt – Feel Good When last we saw Jaime Wyatt, she was discussing her felonious past, publicly coming to terms with her sexuality, and exploring a fuller country sound on her 2020 album Neon Cross, In the three years since releasing that breakthrough record, she’s toured and recorded with artists as disparate as Dropkick […]
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Flatland Cavalry – Wandering Star Really cool country music things can happen when two creative minds occupy the same space. Cleto Cordero, lead vocalist and songwriter for the Texas-bred band Flatland Cavalry, is married to Kaitlin Butts, who’s the artist behind my favorite country album of 2022, What Else Can She Do. When preparing to […]
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Sun June – Bad Dream Jaguar If you’re a regular visitor to Americana Highways, John Prine is most likely a touchstone for you. Not surprisingly, country-adjacent acts like Kacey Musgraves and Maggie Rose have name-checked the songwriter, both before and after his death, because his songs (and his personality) evoked an emotional response that few […]
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How do you grow up and grow old in a world you’re not sure will exist (habitably, anyway) by the time you reach your dotage? That’s the question hanging over the latest album from Squirrel Flower. Singer-songwriter Ella Williams has crafted a noir-meets-apocalypse soundscape for Tomorrow’s Fire while asking if we’re never going to grow […]
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