Vote For Favorite Album of February 2025 : 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 10. Top winners will be featured in our playlists. You can check […]
Favorite Albums of 2024: 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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Vote For Favorite Album of January 2025 and Dec ’24 : 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 13. Top winners will be featured in our playlists. […]
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2025 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 2) at 12:30pm PST (links below). It’s where the bulk of the awards are given out, including the ones we’re […]
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One Writer’s 2025 Musical Wish List While 2024 lacked in, well, most positive qualities, it overflowed in musical bounty. From a Hurray for the Riff Raff record that represented today’s America better than any radio country wastrel could ever pretend to, to Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee) cementing her spot as one of our very best songwriters, […]
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Top Picks of 2024: Dave Nowels Self-Indulgence When I first began writing this year-end wrap up, I wasn’t feeling exceptionally well, and found myself struggling to maintain a semblance of optimism about life in general, much less the state of music in 2024. I’d gotten sick the Saturday before, some type of chest and head […]
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Editor’s Pick: Favorite Albums of 2024 Albums are perennially in style. Yep, we all stream, and yes, playlists and mixtapes are great too, and some of us really get into earworms. But the whole album concept abides, even if it’s sometimes in CD or in streaming form. At times it’s hard to find the time […]
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Road Trip Earworms 2024 – 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. I […]
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Holiday Songs Smorgasbord 2024 Ho ho ho! Let’s dig in to the smorgasbord of new holiday music for this season. What’s your pleasure today? Fun? Mocking? Serious? Sorrowful? Rockin’? Country? Classic? It’s all here, just like a holiday smorgasbord of fiery, sweet, crunchy, and mysterious foods, some that might make you cry and some that […]
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Favorite Albums of October 2024 You voted! And now the results from the readers’ vote for favorite albums of October 2024 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 in our […]
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