Fresh From The Fields – Americana and Roots Music Releases – August 23rd
Here’s some of the choicest sections of Americana and roots music for August 23rd, 2019. Titles are linked to a source to purchase that may contribute to this site and help us keep doing what…
First Aid Kit Pay Tribute To David Berman With Lovely Original + Silver Jews Cover
In tribute to the memory of singer/songwriter David Berman Swedish roots duo First Aid Kit has released two songs; the original “Strange Beauty” and their rendition of Berman’s band Silver Jews’ “Random Rules.” In speaking…
Cody Jinks Announces New Album ‘After the Fire’ Coming This Fall
Insurgent country artist Cody Jinks will release his next independent LP ‘After the Fire’ on October 11th, the album is the first to be released via the Texas songwriter’s own label, Late August Records. Last…
Watch Out! Kelsey Waldon – “Sunday’s Children”
Kelsey Waldon has released a lyric video for “Sunday’s Children,” he second single from her upcoming Oh Boy! Records release “White Noise/White Lines.” The song is a Southern-fried soul-song urging awareness, unity, and understanding and…
Unreleased Lee Hazlewood out This Fall
Light in the Attic Records continues its Lee Hazlewood archival series with 400 Miles From L.A. 1955-56, a collection of previously unknown demo recordings that reveal the talents of the late songwriter, producer, and artist…
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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…
Sturgill Simpson Announces New Album and Anime Tie-In
Few artists are less willing to rest on their laurels than Sturgill Simpson. In his latest gutsy move, Sturgill Simpson announced last weekend at San Diego’s Comic-Con that his upcoming new album, “Sound & Fury,” will be paired with an anime film of the same…
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 while simultaneously displaying a strong sense of honor of the…
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 Dead Don’t Die” a standalone single off the soundtrack from…
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 before the better-known Mother’s Best Flour radio programs, Hiram King…
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 The Wrecking Crew, to his rein of the 70’s country…
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 season after creator and primary writer David Milch decided he…
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…