Daily Archives: October 21, 2026

JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain – Shaving a Dead Man This vividly reimagined collection of mainly traditional songs doesn’t so much feel like it’s been curated by JP Harris, it feels much more like he’s gone out and summoned up these half-remembered songs, wresting them from ancient ghosts still haunting an abandoned, tumbledown cabin […]

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Charlie Parr – Rooming House This is Mr. Parr’s 20th album & it comes as a conceptual narrative. A folk opera though it only features 7 descriptive tracks. The story is rather intense since it explores the hardships of ordinary people with economic insecurity, finding strength in harsh conditions. Parr’s haunting Delta-blues guitar & gritty […]

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Downstate October 2026! This is a nice list, with frequent and fresh quality updates. Please follow and heart Americana Highways’ Apple Music playlist, “Downstate,” curated by Rodney Metoyer, which has just been newly updated! Find new quality music that maybe you haven’t heard of, or hadn’t realized they had something new, or heck, just enjoy […]

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On JP Harris’s latest release, fans won’t encounter the tough-as-nails twang of albums past. They won’t hear the razor-edged, fork-tongued honky tonk that has soundtracked a decade of hard-ridden ballads and last-ditch elegies. Listeners will instead unearth something

Max Hightower likes a good rhythm section. Hightower is a harmonica ace who captures a primal sound that echoes decades of gruff, growling bluesmen that probably started with Howlin’ Wolf. Hightower, who hails from South Carolina, says he’s been enthralled with the Blues since he heard a Muddy Waters cassette when he was 12. By […]

The son of Los Angeles Rams legend Eric Dickerson is taking legal action against his school. He alleges that he has been subjected to racist bullying on several occasions. NFL Hall of Famer’s Son Subjected to Alleged Racist Bullying According to a Monday (October 19) report from the California Post, Dickerson’s son, identified as “DD” […]

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