Shannon Clark and the Sugar are an Americana group from Greenville. Ohio. Recently Americana Highways spoke with Shannon about their new album This Old World, their music, their history as a band, and their future plans. The resultant conversation is below. AH: How did the new album come about? SC: The album came about […]
Charlotte McCaslin of Roselit Bone Talks About Their Music and Their New Album Roselit Bone is a Portland-based band whose music seamlessly traverses between Americana, country, rockabilly, and goth punk to create one of the more original sounds around today. Americana Highways recently spoke with frontwoman Charlotte McCaslin about the band and their music and […]
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There are common traits to the music of Americana veterans Old Crow Medicine Show dating back to their coming together as a band in 1998. Those commonalities include superbly written songs across the broad spectrum of American roots music, impeccable instrumentation, soaring vocal harmonies, and an unparalleled intensity and passion in performing their music in […]
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Roselit Bone – Ofrenda Listening to the Portland-based 8-piece band Roselit Bone’s new album Ofrenda, their fourth, is like listening to the soundtrack to an otherworldly Gothic Western film where characters from the songs of both Marty Robbins’ Western tales and punk rock legends The Cramps numbers would feel at home. On the album, the […]
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Rhiannon Giddens’ prodigious musical talent is on full display on her latest album You’re the One, her first full-length effort that contains all original songs (of which she wrote or co-wrote). Storming through the eleven songs and brief instrumental outro with a subtle fury, Giddens sings about love gone wrong and its heartbreaking aftermath, unbridled […]
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Cordovas – The Rose of Aces On their latest album The Rose of Aces, their fourth, country rockers Cordovas continue to display their amazing ability to seamlessly synthesize the introspective lyrics of The Band, the rising melodies of the Allman Brothers, and the overall feel-good nature of the Grateful Dead into creating their own distinctive […]
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Recently I had the opportunity to speak to Ruthie Foster, one of Americana music’s finest singer-songwriters, about her new album Healing Time and her future touring plans. Our conversation, edited for clarity and length, is below. AH: How would you say your new album Healing Time […]
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Billy Strings — Me/And/Dad One of the things I have always loved about bluegrass music as a genre is that it is up-front and direct. By that I mean the artists who perform it either live or in the studio and do it well, by definition, have to have a mastery of the instruments […]
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In early 1984 Willie Nelson and his band recorded a concert at the legendary Nippon Budokan theater in Tokyo, Japan which had previously been available only as a LaserDisc in Japan and has long been out of print. This Friday November 18th that all changes with the release of Wille Nelson Live At Budokan on […]
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Upon first hearing that Bruce Springsteen’s latest studio album, his 21st, Only The Strong Survive, was going to be an album of soul covers, I became excited and thought what a fantastic idea. Soul music, as a genre, in many ways has always been the most fitted to the language of love, passion, and heartbreak […]
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