Quarantine Hoedown Livestreams (Sarah Shook, Vandoliers, Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn, more)
Today’s Livestreams (Friday, March 20): Bloodshot Records Virtual SXSW Day Part. 2PM-9PM via Facebook Live/a>. Live performances by Unkle Schmidty, Jason Hawk Harris Sarah Shook, The Waco Brothers, Rookie, Big Cedar Fever & Vandoliers! Rhett…
Margo Price Announces New Album ‘That’s How Rumors Get Started’
Margo Price announced on her Instagram account that she will release her third studio album, ‘That’s How Rumors Get Started,’ on May 8 via Looma Vista Recordings. The album is produced by Sturgill Simpson and…
Record Store Day 2020: Our Top Americana/Roots Picks
Spring is in the here, birds are out and trees and flowers begin to bloom, and the smell of limited edition vinyl is in the air!. That’s right folks, Record Store Day 2020 is right…
Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton Live Recordings To Be Released This Spring
Yes, the shiny new stuff is fun to look forward to. But we do well to remember the elders that paved the sonic highways leading to the music we still love today. Doc Watson and…
Listen Up! Elijah Ocean – ‘Honky Tonkin’ Again’
Welcome folks. Kick your boots up, get a cup of refreshment and lend an ear to some great new music. Today we have a twang-drenched tune by Maine-raised/L.A. based Elijah Ocean. The song has our…
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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 music we love. Roots radio continues to gain listeners and…
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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…
Listen Up! Willie Nelson To Release New Album “First Rose Of Spring”
In the wake of the hard news of Willie Nelson’s long-time drummer, Paul English, passing there is some good news. The 86 year-old country music legend will release his 70th (!!!) studio album “First Rose Of Spring” ON April 24. The album features 11 new…
Listen Up! Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit New Song “Be Afraid”
On Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s new song “Be Afraid,” the group’s first from their forthcoming album (details below,) Byrds-like guitar chimes atop stuttering then steady driving beat then Isbell confesses “We’ve been testing you, and you failed / To see how long that…
Lucinda Williams Teases New Album “Good Souls Better Angels,” To Be Released This Spring
2020 releases just keep getting better and better. While discussing her history and her upcoming Fort Mayers her show at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall (tickets here) the Queen of Americana Lucinda Williams dropped some sweet news that she had decided on a…
Caleb Caudle To Release New Album ‘Better Hurry Up’ This Spring
It’s always welcome news around Casa Twang when our friend Caleb Caudle readies a new work. This time around Caudle set up camp at the historic Johnny Cash’s log cabin (yes, the one of the famed ostrich attack ) on Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville,…
Pokey LaFarge To Release New Album ‘Rock Bottom Rhapsody’ This Spring
Rejoice neo-trqd fans, Pokey LaFarge will release eighth studio LP ‘Rock Bottom Rhapsody’ on April 10th of this year. The 13-song set is his New West Records debut and was produced by Chris Seefried (Fitz and the Tantrums). The album was recorded at Reliable Recorders…
Listen Up : Margo Price – “Stone Me”
On her latest ‘Stone Me,’ Margo Price’s approach is less Dolly and more Dusty Springfield. With a gently ascending piano and snare builds a smooth blue-eyed soul groove that she’s winningly experimented with in earlier works and it works beautifully here. This is not a…
Willie Nelson To Be Honored at Grammy Week Americana Music Association Benefit Concert
In keeping with its honoring music legends in the runup to the Grammy Awards (who in many ways prefers to forget them), the Americana Music Association will be producing a solute to none other than the red-headed stranger himself, Willie Nelson. Willie will be saluted…
Lilly Hiatt To Release “Walking Proof” March 27th , Hear The New Cut ‘“Brightest Star”
Lilly Hiatt will release her fourth studio album ‘Walking Proof’ on March 27th via New West Records. The 11-song set was produced by former Cage The Elephant member Lincoln Parish (Lucinda Williams, Lissie) and features guest appearances by Amanda Shires, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Luke Schneider,…
Frazey Ford Announces New Album , Tour. Hear The New Single ‘Azad’
Vancouver-based neo-folk-soul singer-songwriter-actress Frazey Ford has some good news to share. She will be releasing her third studio album ‘U kin B the Sun’ on February 7th via Arts & Crafts records. From the presser “At turns ecstatic and heavy-hearted, gloriously shambolic and deeply purifying,…