Favorite Albums of February 2026 Vote For Your Favorite Albums of February 2026: Vote for three Email us at americanahighways@gmail.com with “February poll” in the subject heading if we need to add your favorite to the list! Poll is open until the end of the day April 15. Top winners will be featured in our […]
Favorite Albums of 2025: Readers’ Pick! Our readers voted for their favorite albums of 2024, and here are the results! Congratulations! We will also add a song from each from the top 12 albums to our New Americana Music playlist. What a wonderful year of new music!! Thanks for voting. Check back and see our […]
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Favorite Albums of January 2026 Vote For Your Favorite Albums of January : Vote for three. Email us at americanahighways@gmail.com with “January poll” in the subject heading if we need to add your favorite to the list! Poll is open until the end of the day March 15. Top winners will be featured in our […]
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2026 GRAMMYs – Who Will, Who Should “Music’s Biggest Night” is upon us. Well, if you’re reading Americana Highways, it’s more like “Music’s Biggest Early Afternoon.” The “GRAMMYs Premiere Ceremony” will stream this Sunday (February 1) at 3:30pm EST (links below). It’s where the bulk of the awards are given out, including the ones we’re […]
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Top Picks of 2025: Dave Nowels Self-Indulgence What a roller coaster year 2025 was for music. It was a year that saw music fans processing an immeasurable amount of grief over so many of our fallen musical heroes. From Americana and roots icons to pure rock stars, we lost some big ones this year including: […]
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Picking 10 of the best albums of the year is not only difficult but highly subjective. As the adage says, “One person’s meat is another person’s poison.” It took quite some time to select only 10 albums from the available choices. Lots of inner debate took place – me arguing with myself about the merits […]
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Roadtrip Earworms 2025 – Editor’s Pick for Favorite Songs There’s nothing like an earworm, sounding so good no matter how many times you play it. I’ve been an earworm listener since I was a kid – hitting repeat to keep that feeling going for hours. There were a lot of them this year, and I […]
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Favorite Albums of November 2025 Vote For Your Favorite Albums of November 2025 : Vote for three. Email us at americanahighways@gmail.com with “November poll” in the subject heading if we need to add your favorite to the list! Poll is open until the end of the day January 11. Top winners will be featured in […]
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Todd Snider photo by Melissa Clarke The Lyrics Only Todd Could Write When we lost Todd Snider, we lost one of America’s most important writers. Though he never gained the mainstream recognition or fame that other top-echelon lyricists amassed in their lifetimes, his influence on the now-mature class of Americana songwriters that followed him by […]
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Favorite Albums of September 2025 – Readers Picked You voted! And now the results from the readers’ vote for favorite albums of September 2025 releases are in! Congratulations top ten! What a great bunch of albums this month! Check out the list just to see what else was new, too. The top five will be featured […]
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