AMERICANA MUSIC

APPALACHIAN ARTISTS

Appalachian Echoes is a three-hour, weekly syndicated radio program that highlights the talented artists, songwriters and musicians with ties to Appalachia, as well as the vibrant and growing genre of Americana music which often features the echoes of Appalachian influence. The show focuses on predominantly independent artists and music often overlooked by commercial radio playlists, and fuels a sense of listener loyalty based on home place pride.

Listen Saturdays from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on great radio stations like our home station, WXCC, 96.5 FM. (The button below opens its live stream!)

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RADIO SHOW

Listen live on Saturdays from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on our home station, WXCC – 96.5 FM, in Williamson, W.Va. Click here to open its live stream.

Are you a radio station interested in carrying Appalachian Echoes? Contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

EVENTS

We collect the most comprehensive list of Americana artists playing live within a reasonable drive of Eastern Kentucky, Southern West Virginia and Western Virginia. If your venue’s events are listed, email us!

AMERICANA MUSIC NEWS

THROUGH THE LENS: Newport Folk Festival 2026 – “We Are Still Stronger When We Sing Together”

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff August 4, 2026

The venerable Newport Folk Festival, first held in 1959, returned with another triumphant weekend of roots music, tradition and rebellion at Fort Adams Park in Newport, Rhode Island (July 24-26, 2026).

Newport Folk was both the result of the folk and blues revival of the 1950s and instrumental in

Pieta Brown on Borrowing Iris DeMent’s Van and Listening to Pharoah Sanders

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff August 4, 2026

Singer-songwriter Pieta Brown talks about the song she wrote as a kid that’s still part of her live sets today, and describes her makeshift garage rehearsal space, where a neighbor’s chickens and passing trains provide unplanned accompaniment. She adds a hard-won career lesson: people like names they can pronounce.

ALBUM REVIEW: Margaret Glaspy Puts Fraught Relationships Under a Microscope on ‘I Am Both’

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff August 4, 2026

Interpersonal friction reaches alarming levels on I Am Both, the riveting fourth album from Margaret Glaspy. Hurt feelings, poor communication, and selfish urges inspire a memorable collection of vignettes that capture common relationship ills with unfiltered honesty. If Glaspy’s unflinching portrayals can feel uncomfortably blunt, her gift for

Song Premiere: Cody Bolden “Keep You Wishing”

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff August 4, 2026

Cody Bolden “Keep You Wishing” Americana Highways presents this premiere of Cody Bolden’s song “Keep You Wishing” from his forthcoming album Menace To Myself. The album was recorded between MadLife Studios & Cream Fleece Studios in Woodstock, GA by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Steven Morrison (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Martina McBride), mixed and mastered by GRAMMY-winning engineer […]

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