Americana Highways’ Key to the Highway series Fans always clamor to find out more about their favorite, most beloved musicians and those who travel with them. There’s such an allure to the road, with its serendipity, inevitable surprises, and sometimes unexpected discomforts. This interview series is a set of questions we are asking some of […]
Denver-based band The Yawpers is ready to release its fourth full-length album, Human Questions (Bloodshot Records), a more concise record than their last effort, 2017’s concept album Boy In A Well. Before they head out on tour, which includes a record-release party in their home city, I spoke to lead singer and songwriter Nate Cook about […]
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Scratch the surface and you’ll find Will Kimbrough almost almost anywhere you look in the Americana music scene: he is the guitar playing, songwriting, singer onstage with people and playing on their records; the Alabama native who produces and plays in Nashville and radiates out from there; but this spring he is releasing a new […]
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Photo by Tyler Anderson Kari Arnett is a singer songwriter orignially from Madison, Wisconsin, who now calls Minneapolis home. Her latest album When the Dust Settles has earned her comparisons to artists like Gillian Welch. By phone she discussed her musical beginnings, having her song featured on Rolling Stone, and her latest album. AH: You […]
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Jimbo Mathus has a new album coming out in a couple days (April 5th): Incinerator (Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum), produced by Matt Patton and Bronson Tew of Dial Back Sound, coming out on the Big Legal Mess label, and featuring Lilly Hiatt, Andrew Bird, Kevin Russel, Alex Holeman, Schaefer Llana, Buck Bennet and more. Mathus […]
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On the third Tuesday of March, Don Vernon Thompson passed away and went to his final resting place. The lifelong farmer and rancher was 87. “If love could have saved him,” his family wrote about the lifelong farmer and rancher, “he would have lived forever. Everybody loved him.” I can’t say I knew the man […]
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In the South Congress District on a busy Thursday evening, a line of ticket holders wait for the Continental Club to open its doors. Ben Dickey is warming up inside, gearing up for a busy tour schedule with troubadour Hayes Carll. Dickey stares out under his black-flat-brimmed hat toward the bustling room in downtown Austin. […]
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Americana Highways caught wind of this new remastered rerelease of Uncle Walt’s Band’s first album, due to be released on Omnivore Records on March 29. This album also contains never – released live and demo tracks, and amazingly detailed liner notes, with words by Walter Hyatt, Deschamps Hood, and the band’s only surviving member David […]
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Photo by Cara Robbins Americana Highways recently had the opportunity to speak with Tulsa native Max Rainer of the band Wilderado. Wilderado has already had a busy year opening for Mt. Joy and the band will be embarking on a headlining tour in May. This week, it was announced that Wilderado would also be playing […]
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One of the best memories Larry Campbell has of his days playing with Bob Dylan was meeting Paul Barrere and Billy Payne of Little Feat. When Dylan was paired with Phil Lesh and Friends, the two mainstays of Little Feat were playing in the Grateful Dead bassist’s evolving side project. Every night Campbell would venture […]
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