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…
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Record Store Day Black Friday 2018 Americana and Roots Recommendations
Just as the weather turns crisp and the Halloween candy gluts the store isles you know that Record Store Day Black Friday event is right around the corner. The event, that results in indy record…
Twang Nation 8th Anniversary Contest – Johnny Cash, Lone Justice , Gram Parsons
I know, I know. I don’t look a day over six. But it’s true! Your generally humble roots music blog, Twang Nation, turns 8 this month. Where does the time go? I started this on…
Contest: This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes – Omnivore Recordings
Lone Justice was the gateway band for much of the music that I have loved and written about over the years. Maria McKee, Ryan Hedgecock, Marvin Etzioni, and Don Heffington helped define the term “Cowpunk…
Americana For All
I’ve been kicking around the ideas to address Giovanni Russonello’s “Why Is a Music Genre Called ‘Americana’ So Overwhelmingly White and Male?” i heard my mom’s advice in m mind, “just walk away from the…
MUSIC REVIEW – Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs – The Only Thing That Matters (self-released)
Remember that girl you met at the bowling alley? The one that chews gum, drinks several pitchers of beer, wears painted on jeans and tells you about French philosophy then winks at you as she…