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Metal Meets Americana [VIDEOS]
Growing up in North Texas you’re surrounded by two kinds of music, country and metal. I’m still a fan of both and judging by the videos below I’m not the only one. These performers don’t…
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Twang Nation Podcast Episode 17 – Amy Black, Jimbo Mathus , Jason Eady and Lucinda Williams
Step right up ladies and gents. What you have before you is the latest Twang Nation podcast with the latest and best of Americana and roots cuts. It’s also the last podcast of 2013 and…
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Watch Out! Brandy Clark – “Stripes” and “Pray To Jesus” [VODEO]
In the last few years we’ve seen a growing wave of unique renegades willing to give Music Row a steely stare-down in it’s twinkling, guided eye and adamantly refuse to become another cloned hat act.…
A Song of Perseverance – An Interview With Jim Lauderdale
If you’re a struggling musician I suggest you take a look at the career of Jim Lauderdale. Between early setbacks as a Bluegrass banjo player, and being marginalized in Music Row there were plenty of…
Song Spotlight – The White Buffalo “House of Pain” from the “West of Memphis” Soundtrack
“You never know how much you need music until you don’t have it.” -Damien Echols, Life After Death Damien Echols, ason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. were convicted in 1994 of the 1993 reportedly ritual…
Video Feature: Randy Travis with The Avett Brothers “Three Wooden Crosses”
One of the most thrilling performances I’ve had the good fortune to attend was a New York City based CMT Crossroads, the first filmed outside of Nashville, featuring Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle. The premise…
Intro to Americana – 5 Albums To Get You Started
This si a post for people that night have seen me at Jessica Northy’s excellent online talk show TwangOut. I asked my incredibly well-informed Twitter followers what 5 albums they would recommend to someone just…
ABC’s “Nashville” – The Newest Source for Americana Music?
I’m intrigued by the ABC’s new dramatic series “Nashville,” not because a soap opera set in Music City is in any way compelling to be (it ain’t) but because said dramatic series has tapped one…
Song Bird: An Interview with Kasey Chambers
You’d think the addition of her third child, a beautiful daughter Poet, would afford Australian trad-country artist Kasey Chambers some time off. But no, she’s just finished Wreck and Ruin, a follow up to 2008’s…
Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie
Today would have been Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday. I have gone on record as saying that I think direct political commentary in music cheapens it. Inevitably someone plays the Guthrie card to prove that politics…