2024 Americana Music Awards Honors Sierra Ferrell, Brandy Clark, and More
As AMERICANAFEST 2024 jets into full blast in Nashville, Tennessee, the Americana Music Association gathered its members and fans at the Ryman Auditorium last night to hand out its annual honors and awards. Hosted by long-time favorites Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan (better known as The Milk Carton Kids)
ALBUM REVIEW: Sophie Gault Explores Landmines on 'Baltic Street Hotel'
The Americana gods must have been smiling down on Sophie Gault when they crossed her stars with award-winning producer Ray Kennedy, known for his work on Lucinda Williams’ seminal Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and Steve Earle’s Transcendental Blues, among many other classics. Kennedy was a '
Allison Russell Next Up as Persephone in Broadway's 'Hadestown'
News broke this morning about the next big roots music name to make an appearance in the Broadway production of Hadestown. Singer-songwriter Allison Russell will reportedly enter the role of Persephone beginning November 12.
The role has played host to a string of beloved singer-songwriters over the past
CROWDFUNDING RADAR: A Handful of Projects with International Flair
Before I get to my usual three album campaigns, I wanted to highlight two crowdfunding campaigns of a more personal nature. Both involve roots musicians with recent health concerns using GoFundMe to crowdfund not an album, but the ability to survive. The first is Joshua Ray Walker, whose recent cancer
FRESH TRACK: MJ Lenderman – "Joker Lips"
Manning Fireworks is an instant classic of an LP — a remarkable development in Lenderman’s story as an incisive singer songwriter, whose propensity for humor always points to some uneasy, disorienting darkness.
Jerry Douglas Looks Back, and Forward, as He Prepares to Enter the Bluegrass Hall of Fame
Jerry Douglas never saw it coming.
In late June, just before walking onstage with The Earls of Leicester at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the Dobro master was told that he had been chosen for induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
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