AMERICANA AND ROOTS MUSIC NEWS

Gainesville, Florida’s 9-piece retro-soul and blues amalgam The Savants of Soul will be releasing their self-titled LP, September 18, 2020. SoS have been threading the needle, pinpointing the ...More

Chance Emerson made a name for himself in music circles by releasing a self-produced EP as a teenager a couple years ago. Then came his sophomore effort, which actually came to fruition at the end of ...More

Old Crow Medicine Show has been recording since 1998. With a string of successful albums and multiple lineup changes, the band keeps plugging along. Like many Nashville-based acts, 2020 has been a ...More

When you've been writing about music for a while, you build relationships. And one of the music publicists that has been acquainted with DittyTV Senior Editor Tim W. Jackson for a long time is Mike ...More

Alabama artist Sylvia Rose Novak just released her album Bad Luck on May 8. After years of hoofing through and establishing herself in the Southern folk-country scene, she has finally embraced her ...More

Australian Mitch Dean is a Melbourne-based singer-songwriter known for evocative storytelling, rich musicality, and the heartfelt conveyance of human emotion. His debut solo album, Holding Back the ...More

Bay Area-bred singer-songwriter Logan Ledger released his debut self-titled album in April. Produced by 13-time Grammy winner T Bone Burnett, the Nashville-based artist’s songs match his moody noir ...More

Sierra Hull has heard terms such as "prodigy" and "wunderkind" her whole life, so we'll gloss over the fact that she made her Grand Ole Opry debut at age 10. We'll instead talk about the amazing album ...More

Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Robert Francis has released Amaretto, his seventh full-length studio album, via Aeronaut Records. The 11-song album from the prolific artist features top-tier ...More

Jackie Bristow was born in New Zealand, where she got her start singing in a duo with her sister. The Bristow Sisters played country festivals all over the South Island, singing folk and country songs ...More

Alternative folk trio JEMS was created when the three women in the band discovered how beautifully their voices blended despite having such different vocal textures. Sarah Margaret Huff’s bright, ...More

The Claudettes released its newest album, High Times in the Dark, in early April. It was produced by Ted Hutt and features the talents of the band's members (left to right in the photo above): Zach ...More

A native of Weatherford, Texas, Van Darien grew up with both the ethereal beauty and seemingly inescapable isolation that are the age-old duality of rural country living. Since first cutting her teeth ...More

When we look back on lost relationships, memories come to us in a rush. We recall the excitement of meeting and the giddiness that follows, the tender moments, the regrettable fights, the feelings of ...More

While we typically have an introduction in this spot with some information about the song and video that we're featuring, in this case, we'll let the man himself offer the goods. We hope you enjoy ...More