Watch Out! Ray Wylie Hubbard “Snake Farm” – Opry Debut
One can only wonder what the hell took so long? Throughout his career, Ray Wylie Hubbard, like many of his contemporaries such as Jerry Jeff Walker and Terry Allen, has defied rigid country music tropes…
Listen Up! Sturgill Simpson New Song ‘The Dead Don’t Die’
It’s been a long stretch waiting for new music from Sturgill Simpson. Well, folks, the wait is over. For those concerned that Simpson might jettison his Country Gold classic country sound, take comfort in “The…
Hank Williams’ ‘Health & Happiness Show’ 1949 Recordings Out This Summer
Before he was a household name Hank Williams was playing late-night road stops, honky-tonks, and early morning radio shows. He, and did many musicians of the time, defined the word hustle. October 1949, two years…
Glen Campbell’s Remarkable Life And Catalog Celebrated With Box Set Due This Summer
Whether cutting his teeth as an in-demand session musician for the likes of The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Simon & Garfunkel, The Righteous Brothers, Merle Haggard and so many more as part of…
Look Out! HBO Full-Length ‘Deadwood’ Trailer featuring Colter Wall
Deadwood fans are still cautiously giddy at the news of a full-length version of our favorite profanity-splattered Shakspereon western. Deadwood unceremoniously canceled on June 5, 2006 Fans were left with a fragmented and ponderous third…
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Wanted! – Notable Americana and Roots Music Releases for 2017
2016 was another great year for Americana and roots music, and 2017 shows signs that the great music will continue to come our way. As our Cream of the Crop favorites from last year makes plain we might be experiencing a new golden age of…
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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…
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…
John Prine Joins Todd Snider On The Ryman Auditorium Stage
Screen grab via YouTube – Kimberly Lord Over the Easter weekend the Jester King of Americana, Todd Snider, surprised his audience at the historic Ryman Auditorium by inviting John Prine , one of his musical mentors, on stage during the encore. The longtime friends traded…
Record Store Day 2019 – Americana and Roots Music Picks
Spring has sprung and for some antiquated reason we lose an hour of sleep, pollen lays waste to the weakest among us, people lay in fields Of bluebonnets just begging for a snake bite and the smell of vinyl hangs heavy in the air. You…
Buddy and Julie Miller Announce Summer Release For New Album ‘Breakdown on 20th Ave. South’
It’s said that good things come to those that wait. For patient fans of one of Americana music’s most influential artist-songwriter couples (married since 1981) that wait for something good is almost over. The long-anticipated follow up to 2009’s Americana Music Association Album of the…
Watch Out! Strand of Oaks featuring Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires – “Ruby”
Strand of Oaks was joined by members of My Morning Jacket guitarist Carl Broemel, drummer Patrick Hallahan, bassist Tom Blankenship, and keyboardist Bo Koster, as well as Jason Isbell and Amanda Shire performed a pastorally soulful rendition of ‘Ruby’ on “Colbert” last night. “Ruby” is…
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Watch Out! The Blood Moon Howlers – “Drunk N’ Cold” [VIDEO PREMIERE]
If you like your music greasy then, folks, do we have a treat for you! L.A.’s The Blood Moon Howlers’ newest single “Drunk N’ Cold,” slithers to life with grinding electric guitar and smokey saxophone (how many roots music dare to feature saxophone?!) Guitarist/vocalist Matt…
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Watch Out! – Todd Snider “Talking Reality Television Blues” [VIDEO]
Todd Snider channels his inner Christopher Allen Bouchillon with his “Talking Reality Television Blues,” The clever animated video below gives us a history lesson in 20th-century media and its effects on culture. “Talking Reality Television Blues” is on the upcoming “Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3,”…
Watch Out! Hayes Carll – Times Like These
It seems these days people are going out of their way to find reasons to divide themselves. Like somehow looking for the common humanity in your neighbor that binds us together is out of style, and choosing identity can only happen in opposition against…well, anything!…
Watch Out! Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Sing “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” Oscars 2019
The 2019 Academy Awards held very little appeal for me (how was Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat and Charlie Sexton’s performances in ‘Blaze’ overlooked?!) but a break in the tedium came when Kacey Musgraves introduced Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. The Americana legends bedecked in matching…
Hear Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Perform “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings”
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings wrote “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” for the recent six-part Coen brothers anthology, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. If you watched the show you know the original song was sung by Tim Blake Nelson as Buster Scruggs…