Category Archives: Americana News

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On the morning of his 66th birthday, Feb. 19, a team of police officers arrived at the home of the former Prince Andrew to arrest him.  Now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, he has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. We have more details below.  The Former Prince Andrew Has Denied Any Wrongdoing […]

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The constant relaunches and various iterations spanning multiple genres, spectacularly failing and then being reconstituted into something “new” will give you whiplash just reading about it.

The post And Then There Was One: The Band Perry’s Latest Iteration first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Tim Easton Finds Light on fIREHORSE At nearly 60, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Tim Easton is still chasing songs the way he did as a restless young troubadour roaming Europe with a guitar case open on cobblestones. His 14th studio album, fIREHORSE, feels both hard-earned and freshly struck — a record that balances revolution and romance, one-chord […]

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Paula Boggs photos by Tom Reese Paula Boggs is an Army veteran, attorney, songwriter and musician with an insightful new album Sumatra. Sumatra covers the range of Americana delights, from folksier Americana style songs to the more powerful push of alt-country roots rock, like the Drive-By Truckers – and the musical tone is always a […]

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Frank Viele photo by Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez Singer songwriter Frank Viele has a new EP out this week, The Silo, which is another step along Frank’s pathway of soulful electric guitar, honest songwriting topped by powerful vocals and emotionally expressive performances.  He put this EP out on his own label Bigger Beast Records, and has […]

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With the release of his first solo album Where We Go, California-based mandolin player Jesse Appelman, has crafted a project characterized by vocal and instrumental harmonies that highlights his mandolin virtuosity without overwhelming. The project arrives two years after Appelman stepped away from a long career in nonprofits to pursue

It happened again. For the second year in a row, my colleagues and I have organized an LGBTQIA+ Valentine’s dance at the community college I teach at in the South Bronx. There were about 80 people in the room — an unheard-of turnout at a commuter campus —

Chris Williams and Kid Reverie “Haunt Me” Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Chris Williams and Kid Reverie (Gregory Alan Isakov)’s song “Haunt Me” from their forthcoming album, set for release later this year.  The album was produced, mixed, and engineered by Andrew Berlin (The Blasting Room), and mastered by Dave Wilton (Coalesce Audio). […]

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CJ Hooper. That just sounds like the name of a country musician. Or maybe a high school football star being recruited by every school in the SEC. I don’t know if Hooper played football in high school, but he was Texas-raised before moving to his now-home in Washington state. More to the point, he just […]