Interviews Archives • Americana Highways

Interview: Amanda Anne Platt of the Honeycutters Gets to the Heart of the Matter on Defining Teamwork and Community

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018 Melissa Clarke0

The idea of smaller community regrowth and diversification around music makes sense, as a sort of meeting in the middle.

Interview: Austin Lucas on Immortal Americans, Personal Tethers, Adrenaline Spikes and Listening to Music

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018 Melissa Clarke1

I believe listening to music is analogous to forming a friendship. You have to get to know someone to become his or her friend. To me, albums are friends. Books are friends. And unless you spend time with them you’re never going to get to know how much they can mean to you.

Interview: Walter Salas-Humara on New Album, Communities, Revolutions, and Music Formats

August 7, 2018August 7, 2018 Melissa Clarke1

Walter Salas-Humara of the Silos has a new album coming out this month: Walterio (Rhyme and Reason Records). When I talked to him about the album, the first track, “El Camino De Oro” (the Golden Road), was the first one we discussed. Salas-Humara said without hesitation: “that song was inspired by the community where I […]

Interview: Kasey Anderson on His Band’s New Album, Prison Reform, and Standing For What’s Right

July 26, 2018July 26, 2018 Melissa Clarke0

You can’t sacrifice your own well-being as you’re trying to reach people. But you can try to move the ones who are reachable. I wrestle with this, and the record shows this.

Interview: Peter Holsapple Identifies as an “Omnicana” Musician, Talks About Model Cars, His Concept Album, and the Disappearance of Credits

July 25, 2018July 25, 2018 Melissa Clarke2

I think we could define the music here, and my music, as “Omnicana” (laughs) I’m going to refer to myself as an Omnicana artist from now on.

Interview: “We Can Do Better”: Willie Nile On a Divided Country, His Hope For The “Children of Paradise” and What He Learned Sitting At The Family Table

July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 Steve Wosahla2

I’m alive….life is precious. I’m going to feel it, love it passionately. Yes, there’s an aspirational and optimistic side to me but there’s also a side that won’t take bullshit.

Interview: Zach Lupetin of Dustbowl Revival on Transcendent Revivals and Crossing Journeys

July 23, 2018 Melissa Clarke0

We joke that we have the only bluegrass trombone player and the only funk mandolin player. You might not think these things can intermingle, but they can, very well actually.

Interview: Chuck Hawthorne on Austin, Veterans, and Moving Forward

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 Mark Joseph Engleson1

Chuck Hawthorne calls me exactly on time. Even driving in the rain between gigs, the 21-year veteran of the Marine Corps’s discipline wins out. We quickly agree to talk after Chuck has arrived in DC. Chuck calls me about 40 minutes later. He’s just gotten into DC from Chester, Maryland, on Kent Island, the largest […]

Interview: Joel King of the Wild Feathers on Team Efforts, Quality Burgers, and Being Born After a Person’s Time

July 18, 2018July 20, 2018 Melissa Clarke0

The Wild Feathers band has a new album out: Greetings From the Neon Frontier (Warner Brothers). [For more about this album click any of these bolded words right here.] Americana Highways recently talked with bass player Joel King of the Wild Feathers. Their new release was produced by Jay Joyce (The Wallflowers, Emmylou Harris), so […]

Interview: Producer Dave Cobb on History, Teamwork and “Now” As Great Time To Be A Musician

July 17, 2018July 23, 2018 Melissa Clarke3

I’m excited because I feel like this is the first era in my lifetime, finally, where honest art can sell records.