THE READING ROOM: The Best Books from 2025 AmericanaFest Panelists

Of all the many Americana Music Association’s AMERICANAFEST extravaganzas I’ve attended I cannot recall one that I have been more excited about. The Association has outdone itself this year, the line-up is chock full of emerging talent on the verge of busting out to wider audiences. Simply

After 50 years, the original comic books written and self-funded by Johnny Cash are being reissued by Z2 Comics with the Estate of Johnny Cash . His intention at the time was to reach younger audiences though an different format, long before musicians began exploring comic books and graphic novels

It’s fitting that Jamie Fisher’s Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith opens with an epigraph from the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard: “The individual has manifold shadows, all of which resemble him and from time to time have an equal claim to be the man himself.