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 […]
When speaking of the songs on their fifth full-length studio album Love Songs For Losers lead vocalist Zach Williams of The Lone Bellow says: “The songs are looking at bad relationships and wonderful relationships and all the in-between, sometimes with a good deal of levity. It’s us […]
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With his new album Forsythia, Americana star Caleb Caudle, in his follow-up album to 2020’s brilliant and classic Better Hurry Up, continues to add to his reputation as one of the genre’s most talented singer-songwriters. Deftly produced by John Carter Cash at the legendary Cash Cabin, Caudle delivers an album that is not only […]
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Coming off the two-year celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of their making music together, which included the release of an 8 CD box set and an authorized biography, AMERICA, one of the most popular bands of all time, has finally been able over the last few months to complete the touring part of that celebration […]
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Americana Highways had an opportunity to talk with Marc Ribler recently. In addition to being a solo artist, Marc Ribler is a member of the band Disciples of Soul with Little Steven, who just produced Marc Ribler’s new album The Whole World Awaits You. Americana Highways: Can you point to a specific moment in […]
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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 LP, 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 themes, […]
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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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