With the timely 2020 release of Is It You, Is It Me?, Dustbowl Revival sharpens their genre blending sound, while simultaneously mastering a defined message for the turning of this uncommon era. Recorded in a flash two-week studio session, Is It You, Is It Me? looks deeply into the seminal, collective consciousness of today. And […]
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Standing out on a cold evening, you’ll lean into anything that feels like warmth. With today’s release of the The Wind, on Louisville’s Eastwood Records, Eric Bolander succeeds in drawing us all in a little “closer to the flame.” Here it is warmer, and there is a sent of hope. Here, in the flicker of […]
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Opening for Blackberry Smoke at the famous Ryman Auditorium this past Saturday, February 23rd, Will Hoge shared his stories and songs to a hometown crowd. He admits,“I maybe shouldn’t say such things so publicly, but back when I used to come to shows here at the Ryman, the good folk’s who worked here at the […]
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scroll to the bottom for a playlist Americana Highways took on Folk Alliance International 2019 in Montreal, Quebec. Events of this nature are often pulsed with a humming tension. An airtight anxiety. You don’t go outside! It’s like being on a ship; a journey with captain and crew that goes nowhere, but transcends everything. Flying […]
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Out today, Gurf Morlix’s tenth solo album “Impossible Blue” draws back the green curtain to show the mad wizard at work. More confessional than his solo albums have ever been, Morlix cuts some of his heaviest grooves with this release. To be plain, this collection of tunes makes the body want to be alive. After […]
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In an interview with Tim Duffy, founder and president of Music Maker Relief Foundation, Americana Highways looks into this 25-years-running nonprofit, and the work being done to refresh the mined-dry aquifer of the music industry. Music Makers Relief Foundation celebrates 25 years of supporting their partner artists this February 1st with the release of […]
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There are two things at least worth living for. Trust me. The first, is the satisfaction of a good crunch, and the second, the forehead-softening calm induced by a dulcet bassline. Missy Raines delivers both to my exceeding pleasure in Royal Traveller, produced by Alison Brown of Compass Records.
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Canines are trained to search out a great many things, from drugs to explosives, persons of interest, articles of clothing, crime scene evidence, blood, fear and death. Every September in Nashville, Americana Fest has a way of releasing the hounds on us all. There is a brutal sniffing out of talent, a relentless and exhausting […]
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Fifth among Mike Farris’ full length albums, Silver and Stone released today by Compass Records, is packed in tight with a thoughtful list of studio performances from many of Nashville’s notorious noteworthies. An established talent himself, with a recent GRAMMY under his belt for his 2015 release of Shine For All The People, Farris pulled […]
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Olney is an architect with words, designing intricate systems of rooms, corridors, and spiral staircases that lead one up into the ethereal lookouts, and down into the basements of humanity.
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