Jimmie Vaughan – The Lone Star Bluesman In the personal holy grail of Jimmie Vaughan during his years growing up in Texas, it was cars and guitars. There was something about the sound of both to the ears of the young man. Vaughan’s neighborhood, Oak Cliff, was right on one of Dallas’ edges, and there […]
Smitti Supab of Captain Buckles On Welcoming Magical Moments and Making Hurry Up Captain Buckles are a configuration of experienced New Orleans-based sidemen who have gotten together to work on original music in an experimental atmosphere and will be releasing their debut full-length album, Hurry Up, on November 14th, 2025. The album was recorded at […]
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Emma Swift’s Resurrection in Gray and Blue Emma Swift’s new album, The Resurrection Game, unfolds like a series of letters written from the far edge of an emotional winter. It is a record of desolate beauty and delicately held hope, the sound of someone who has passed through collapse and found something luminous in what […]
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Rachael Sage photo by Anna Azarov Americana Highways’ Key to the Highway series Fans always clamor to learn 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 […]
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Amanda Shires’ Nobody’s Girl: Standing in the Aftermath There are records that capture a fleeting moment, and then there are records that chart the hard path of rebuilding a life. Amanda Shires’ Nobody’s Girl, out now via ATO Records, belongs to the latter. Born from heartbreak and loss, it is a document of an artist […]
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Mike Hollon photo by Corey Rourke Photography Mike Hollon Finds Creative Connection and The Courage To Go Solo with Irving Park Mike Hollon recently released his debut album as a solo artist, titled Irving Park, and it represents songwriting and work that spans his time in various geographical locations, including his more recently adopted home […]
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Five-time Grammy-nominated artist Stephen Thomas recently released his debut country/Americana single and music video, “Come Home To Me,” a track that sees Thomas shifting from what he calls his ‘universal’ genre, which blends elements of hip-hop, rock, R&B, and pop. His resulting new focal point really hits the country sweet spot. According to Thomas, “This […]
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The Krickets Bring Lessons in Love To If You Only Knew The Krickets are an all-female Americana group consisting of three songwriters who collaborate on this special project, which was originally founded around a charitable event for Breast Cancer and still supports The Cricket Fund who provide treatment for the uninsured. Their third full-length album […]
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Hunter Root: Turning Grief Into Grace on Crooked Home For Pennsylvania musician Hunter Root, the road to his new album Crooked Home—out October 17, 2025—runs straight through the hardest chapters of his life. Written in the shadow of his brother’s death and recorded with producer David Kalmuskey at Nashville’s Addiction Studios, the record is an […]
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Jim Keller photo by Jimmy Fontaine Jim Keller Finds a Way To Keep On Moving at The End of The World Jim Keller is a New York-based songwriting musician who will be releasing his album, End of the World, on October 24th, 2025, co-written with Byron Isaacs (Lumineers, Levon Helm) and produced by Adam Minkoff […]
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