Dan Navarro photo shot in Tacoma Park by Carol M. Highsmith Americana Highways had a chance to catch up with Dan Navarro recently, and we dove deep into all manner of things including his approach to touring post-Covid (as “Nomad Dan”), his songwriting, early years and Frank Sinatra, performing and what motivates him. Dan Navarro […]
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Americana Highways had the opportunity to pull over and chat with Doug Hoekstra recently. He has just released a new EP, The Day Deserved, in April and a few weeks later, a book, Ten Seconds In Between, on June 1st. What’s the connection between releasing these two art forms at once? What are the […]
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Our Her Voice 2021 Playlist, curated by our writer John Michael Antonio, celebrates the wonderfully diverse female voices of Americana music and its May update can be located here : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AJGwWrfDQpvQMGLZpOP4X<iframe
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It is no secret to anyone who knows me that I am a firm believer that a lot of what passes today as “country music” oftentimes bears little to no resemblance to the country music that I grew up listening to – the music from the sixties, seventies, and eighties. Without specifically calling out […]
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For me, musically speaking there is nothing more Americana or American (when it comes to music, the words are interchangeable to me) than a group of young musicians grabbing a microphone, a guitar, a bass, and a drum kit and going into a basement or a garage and trying to bang out the music […]
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Underneath the surface of the ten songs on singer-songwriter DL Rossi’s new album Lonesome Kind is a simmering and slow-burning intensity that takes the listener on a fascinating, mesmerizing, and ultimately emotional musical journey. In a superlative songwriting fashion, Rossi displays a tough-minded optimism on his creations on this record that is simultaneously rooted […]
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Upon the occasion of the two emerging Americana artists Alice Wallace and Caitlin Cannon forming their new band Side Pony together and releasing their first single “Lucky Break” off of their upcoming debut album in October, I recently had the good fortune of being able to interview these two charismatic Nashville based songwriters about […]
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Of all the debut albums you are likely to hear this year you will be hard-pressed to find one that is equal in magnificence to the eponymous release from the Americana duo Hey King!, produced by Ben Harper, which just dropped this past Friday on April 2 . Beginning with the soaring and intense opening […]
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Check out this month’s update of Her Voice, a playlist that celebrates the women of Americana curated by our writer John Michael Antonio. Follow and enjoy! It’ll be updated monthly with a cumulative year-end list.
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Emilio Castillo is a founding member, bandleader, and saxophone player for the legendary American R&B and soul-based horn section and band Tower of Power. Having formed in 1968 in Oakland, CA, they recently released a new live album, 50 Years Of Funk & Soul: Live At The Fox Theater, that was recorded in their […]
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