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The EP collaboration between the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Luminescent Orchestrii (also featuring beatbox artist, Adam Matta) is easily the best acoustic-hip-hop-stringband-Romanian-gypsy-fiddle-old-time hybrid you’re likely to hear this year. Actually, despite its novelty, this album is probably one of the best

Those of you who find yourselves in or around St. Louis, Missouri on the second Friday of any given month may want to check out local band Colonel Ford at The Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. For most of us, the thought of hearing great hillbilly music in a microbrewery would

Though we've all accepted it as the standard description of American culture for over 200 years, I'm starting to think that the melting pot metaphor falls far short of the reality here.  It assumes that assimilation is the ideal, that we somehow want to create this

The calling It's coming up to a year since I pitched Portrait of Lincoln With the Wart, a radio documentary on the evolution of Americana as a musical term and, ultimately, a musical ethos.  The idea came after my sister took me to a Lucinda Williams concert in

Although I am a fairly young English chap, I have consistently held soul, original R’n’B, and folk music close to my heart. When I was smaller my Dad would play loads of records ranging from John Lee Hooker, Louis Armstrong, Howlin’ Wolf to Led Zeppelin, and The Police.