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

REVIEW: Lightnin’ Hopkins “Blues In My Bottle”

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff April 11, 2026

Lightnin’ Hopkins – Blues In My Bottle Houston-based smokey-voiced Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins (1912-1982) collected 11 solo songs recorded at ACA (Gold Star Studios) in Houston, TX in 1961 for Blues In My Bottle (Dropped April 3/Craft/Concord/Prestige Bluesville/39:27) produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Mack McCormick. It features Hopkins’ distinctive fingerstyle guitar & country blues, free […]

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REVIEW: John Lee Hooker “That’s My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues”

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff April 11, 2026

John Lee Hooker – That’s My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues Hearing a classic R&B song like “Money (That’s What I Want)” originally by Barrett Strong in 1959, the Beatles in 1963 & quirky in 1979 by the Flying Lizards, it’s amazing to hear a bluesy rendition in 1960 by blues-great John Lee […]

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Downstate April 2026 — Americana Music Playlist on Apple Music

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff April 11, 2026

Downstate April 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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Andy Hedges – The Westerner

Americana NewsBy Echoes Staff April 11, 2026

It used to be called country & western. Then two or three decades ago, for reasons I’m sure the ethnographers still debate, it just became country music. Western just sort of slipped out of the vernacular, except for maybe a strip of North America from around Calgary to somewhere near El Paso. Fortunately, there’s still […]