Americana Highways 45 RPM 2025 (Reasons to Purchase Music) 2024 was a fantastic year for music and a shit year for pretty much everything else (November 5 still stings). Music, as it so dependably does, helped explain how we were feeling during the darkest of days, and knowing that you’ll be going to a show […]
Favorite Albums of September 2024 You voted! And now the results from the readers’ vote for favorite albums of September 2024 releases are in! Congratulations top ten! What a great bunch of albums this month, and this month’s competition was fierce! We had almost 18,000 voters! Check out the list just to see what else […]
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Music Reviews: Frank Zappa Expanded ‘Apostrophe (’),’ plus Mike Montrey Band, Kevin Gordon, Rebecca Frazier, Guy Davis, and Mac Leaphart Frank Zappa isn’t a name you’d ordinarily associate with hit-making, but this esoteric artist did occasionally flirt with commercial success, most notably on 1974’s Apostrophe (’). The album climbed to No. 10—his best showing ever—and […]
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Kevin Gordon – The In Between The flow of young talent out of Nashville, Texas, Kentucky and other musical hotbeds has been amazing to see over the past few years – I’m hearing more good music each week than I can possibly write about. But I like perspective, too – someone who’s lived some years […]
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Downstate August 2024 — Americana Music Playlist on Apple Music This is a nice list, with frequent and fresh quality updates. Please follow and heart Americana Highways’ Apple Music playlist, “Downstate,” curated by Rodney Metoyer, which has just been newly updated! Find new quality music that maybe you haven’t heard of, or hadn’t realized they had […]
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