There’s just something in BJ Barham’s songwriting that resonates with me deeper than just about any other songwriter in recent memory. My first review for Americana Highways was an American Aquarium show last year. (That review can be found here: https://americanahighways.org/2018/05/28/show-review-american-aquarium/ ) When I walked into the venue that night, I had zero knowledge of […]
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photos by Glenn Cook James McMurtry was one of the most important lessons I learned in graduate school. Having arrived in Boston, fresh from the revelatory oasis of my UC Berkeley undergraduate years, I was pretty certain the world had shown me what it could. Intellectual prowess, philosophical abandon, and mindful debauchery had been fused into a fledgling, yet purposeful, identity. […]
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The Brothers Osborne made a triumphant return to the Washington, D.C., area on Saturday, playing a 19-song homecoming set in front of a sold out, rowdy and boisterous audience at The Anthem. The Grammy-nominated duo, fronting a muscular six-piece band that is touring in support of their second album “Port Saint Joe,” showed their musical […]
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photos by Jimmy Faber Watching The National Reserve and Sarah Shook & the Disarmers play back-to-back at the Ardmore Music Hall last Saturday night, I realized that I was witnessing two nascent Americana bands literally headed in opposite directions. Shook & Co. were on their last stop of a four-shows-in-four-nights East coast mini-tour, having been […]
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Every winter, Steve Earle takes a “break” from touring with The Dukes and performs a solo acoustic residency at City Winery, a gig that started when he moved to New York in 2005 and has since expanded to include stops in the venue’s other locations across the U.S. The partnership has proven fruitful. City […]
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Venturing into the Cain’s this past Saturday night, I was surprised to see the room less full than I imagined. On this night it was hard to tell if it was the cold weather keeping people away or the usual occurrence of Cain’s attendees skip out on the opener. In this case, missing out on […]
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Todd Snider sells himself a bit short if you ask me. He’s far more than just an “Allright Guy”. Equal parts folksinger, storyteller and rambler, Snider is a veteran traveler. He’s an artist that manages to appeal to a wide section of Americana fans regardless of the boundaries usually set by age, status, interests […]
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scroll to the bottom for a playlist Americana Highways took on Folk Alliance International 2019 in Montreal, Quebec. Events of this nature are often pulsed with a humming tension. An airtight anxiety. You don’t go outside! It’s like being on a ship; a journey with captain and crew that goes nowhere, but transcends everything. Flying […]
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photos by Michael Aarons Chuck Prophet announced that he and his wife and musical partner, Stephanie Finch, were glad to appear at their “favorite venue in a strip mall that used to be a Christian place of worship.” Despite the tongue-in-cheek remark, he later circled back to say how remarkable it is that Jammin’ Java […]
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It was a cold night in Music City and the masses were packed in tight on Friday night waiting for Ruston Kelly to take his victory lap, celebrating a wildly successful solo tour capped with the second of two sold out hometown headlining shows at the Basement East. After opener Katie Pruitt finishes her set […]
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