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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It goes without saying that the past year has been hard on all of us. It has been especially hard, of course, upon the music industry and more specifically those artists who have had new music releases come out in the past year. Robbed of the normal and best way of promoting their music […]
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If one were to look at the entire American musical spectrum and start to list the most influential bands of the last half-century, one would be hard-pressed to find one more influential than the multi-racial Oakland-based powerhouse of a group known as Tower of Power. Formed in 1968, the band’s energetic and invigorating mixture […]
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As I listen to Loretta Lynn’s latest album Still Woman Enough and prepare to write about it for this publication, I know that personally, it’s probably going to be the most emotional review I will ever write. There are currently tears in my eyes as I am typing these words because I can’t hear […]
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From the moment singer-songwriter, Johnny Ironsights begins vocalizing his imagery-laced songs on his new album Murder Mountain, his first full-length effort, as a listener he captures you in that they practically reach out and grab you and refuse to let you go. From the opening fiercely vivid titular track about the lawless region of […]
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