Wanted! – Notable Americana and Roots Music Releases for 2020
2019 turned out to be another excellent year for Americana and roots music. Releases from John Paul White, Buddy and Julie Miller, Chuck Mead, Tanya Tucker, and many others were cause for celebration for the…
Twang Nation’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide
Cowboy Christmas Wrapping Paper – Buy here. As direct music sales dwindle musicians and labels have had to get creative about building new revenue streams. As necessity is the mother of invention they’ve stepped up…
Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album, Shares New Song ‘Armageddon’s Back in Town’ [VIDEO]
It’s been over three years since the Drive-By Truckers’ released ‘American Band (the longest stretch between albums in the band’s career) but now the wait is over. The band’s 12th studio album ‘The Unraveling” will…
Grammy Awards Nominees : Tanya Tucker Leads The Pack
Nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday, and Taya Tucker led the country/roots music pack with four nominations in the Song Of The Year, Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song and Best…
The Secret Sisters Announce New Brandi Carlile Produced Album ‘Saturn Return.’ Hear New Song ‘Cabin’ Now.
The Secret Sisters (Laura Rogers and Lydia Slagle) will bring their dreamy harmony to a new album entitled “Saturn Reuter.” The album is produced by Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth (aka The Twins)…
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Cream of the Crop – Twang Nation Top Americana and Roots Music Picks of 2016
The year in music for 2016 is best defined by the classic Dickensian line from “A Tale of Two Cities,” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Mortality cut a wide swath across some of the greatest and influential musicians…
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Wanted! – Notable Americana and Roots Music Releases for 2016
2015 was another bumper crop year for Americana and roots music, and 2016 show vast signs that the great music will continue to come. As our Cream of the Crop favorites from 2015 makes plain we might be experiencing a new golden age of roots…
Choice Moments From The CMA Awards
I can’t remember the last time I sat through an entire broadcast and the 53rd CMA Awards was no exception. Besides the unnecessary exclusion of long-time host Brad Paisley (to, ironically, virtue signal inclusivity) there’s the typical celebration of mundane Music City product. I admit…
Terry Allen Announces New Album “Just Like Moby Dick.” Hear Two New Songs
Few songwriters have attained singular independent status as Terry Allen (John Prine and Warren Zevon comes to mind.) Since the wild-and-wooly 70’s the Texas legend has been creating his own quirky variety of country music pulling from many of the same West Texas inspirations as…
Listen Up! Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash ‘Wanted Man’ Demo
It’s always a treat when new music is released featuring the late Johnny Cash. in this case, we get the added pleasure of the song being a Bob Dylan penned piece performed in a fly-on-the-wall manner by the two men. Bob Dylan wrote “Wanted Man”…
Record Store Day Black Friday 2019 Releases – Roots & Americana Picks
Luckily for vinyl fans, Record Store Day is now two separate events. The original big daddy event in April and it’s smaller Black Friday. The latter happens on 11/29, just in time for some early Christmas shopping for your own stocking. Below find some choice…
The Band’s Eponymous Release Celebrated With Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition
The Band fans rejoice! On November 15, Capitol/UMe will celebrate The Band’s eponymous second album (as some have come to coin it “The Brown Album”) with a selection of newly remixed and expanded 50th Anniversary Edition packages, including a Super Deluxe 2CD/Blu-ray/2LP/7-inch vinyl boxed set…
Third Man Records To Release Patsy Cline’s “Sweet Dreams: The Complete Decca Studio Masters “
Jack White’s Third Man Records continues to mine treasures from country music history, meticulously package/re-package them and offer them up to us lucky fans. This time around especiallt for Record Store Day’s Black Friday the work getting this sweet, sweet vinyl love is Patsy Cline’s…
Watch Out – Aoife O’Donovan Covers Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska”
Springsteen’s “Nebraska” is a far cry from the more commercially engaging follow-up “Born in the U.S.A.” It’s a 4-track DIY stark study of rust-belt existential ennui some consider (I count myself as one) as his most personal work. The title cut is a particularly dark…
Sturgill Simpson on the Joe Rogan Podcast – 6 Things We Learned
Sturgill Simpson and band took his latest “Sound and Fury” on the road by playing the storied Troubadour club in Los Angeles and it sounded like a great show. Simpson band must have gotten up at the break of dawn to it in on the…
Fresh From The Fields – Americana and Roots Music Releases – September 6th, 2019
The Highwomen – self-titled Terri Hendrix – ‘Talk To A Human’ Crystal Gayle -‘You Don’t Know Me’ Paul Cauthen – ‘Room 41’ NRBQ – ‘Turn On, Tune In’ Amy Speace – ‘Me and the Ghosts of Charlemagne’