Interviews Archives • Americana Highways

Interview: Adam Faucett on Salem Witch Trials, Fear of Fear, Judgment, and Singing Out Loud

December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 Melissa Clarke0

It feels really good to tell the truth. And it feels even better to tell the truth by yourself loudly from onstage. That is a “you can’t touch me” moment.

Interview: John Howie Jr. Is Everywhere At Once

December 4, 2018December 8, 2018 Steve Wosahla0

When I last saw John Howie Jr., it seemed like he was everywhere. I was in downtown Carrboro, North Carolina outside Chapel Hill a couple of springs back. On the streets downtown posters of the dashing Howie under his trademark cowboy hat were seen promoting his upcoming show with the Rosewood Bluff. Inside at Cat’s […]

Interview: James McMurtry on the State of the Union, Songwriting Process, Fishing, and Recent Tour with Jason Isbell

December 3, 2018December 8, 2018 Melissa Clarke1

I haven’t been fishing lately because I no longer have the psychological need to kill things… I may take up fly fishing because that’s the best way in the world to not catch fish. (laughs)

Interview: Still Poco After All These Years

November 29, 2018December 9, 2018 Steve Wosahla0

Onstage at the Birchmere Music Hall across the river from Washington, DC, Rusty Young had something to share. “Here we are still together,” he said with emotion in his voice, “all of us and you.” After 50 years, the band Poco and their fans reverentially known as “Poco Nuts” gathered like they were at a class […]

Interview: More Blood, More Tracks…More Bob Dylan Stories

November 20, 2018November 21, 2018 Steve Wosahla0

photo by Gregg Inhofer It may have been an inadvertent mistake but feels like a universal action of karmic retribution. When lyrics from a four-page section of a Bob Dylan notebook were left out of a lavish new box set More Blood, More Tracks, what might have been an oversight instead carries with it the […]

Interview: Bit by Bit Logic: Conversation with Brian Henneman of the Bottle Rockets

November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 Michael Magoolaghan0

Make sure your songs stand up to music that you like, to the stuff that other people you know and respect did. Be universally impressive. And if you can be as good as people you respect, then you did the best you can do.

Interview: Cedric Burnside on New Release, Growing up in the Hill Country Blues

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 Melissa Clarke0

I’m from the hill country, that rhythm and style is all I’ve ever known, growing up with my Big Daddy and Junior Kimbrough Jessie Mae Hemphill and Othar Turner and those cats. Being around that music has really instilled that style in my soul, and in my body.

If It’s October, It Must Be Time For The Flatlanders

October 26, 2018October 27, 2018 Steve Wosahla0

In one line the Flatlanders tell you all you need to know about living in 2018. It’s the fearless who love and the loveless who fear

Interview: Becky Warren Interviewed Homeless in Nashville to Provide Material from Her Recent Moving Album “Undesirable”

October 22, 2018October 22, 2018 Melissa Clarke0

I count myself in at the rock ‘n roll end of Americana and I think that part of Americana is smaller than the folkier end of Americana.

Interview: Sarah Borges on Album “Love’s Middle Name,” Emotional Vulnerability Wrapped in a Rock ‘n Roll Package

October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 Melissa Clarke1

I love rock and roll, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be a deep emotion in it too. It’s scary to write what you feel, because then you put it out there for analysis…. I like to have that cushion of rock music buffering the vulnerability, because it’s hard to be confessional.