AMERICANA AND ROOTS MUSIC NEWS

The Quebe Sisters are preparing for the release of their new self-titled album on Sept. 20 with this single and world premiere video for "My Love, My Life, My Friend." Sophia Quebe says that she ...More

Leftover Salmon is like the Energizer Bunny. Formed in Boulder, Colo., in 1989, they just keep going and going and going. Last year the band released Something Higher on Los Records, and earlier this ...More

Will Payne Harrison was born and raised in Louisiana (and actually makes the gumbo in this music video) but now makes his home in Nashville, where the video for "Jacqueline" was ...More

Ready to drop a new EP on Aug. 16, we caught up with King Corduroy to talk about the new project produced by Jimbo Hart, who is best known as the bassist in Jason Isbell's 400 Unit. That new EP is ...More

By Tim W. Jackson Wesley Allen may not look or sound like a label executive but that fits the personality of laid back and freewheeling Eastwood Records based in Louisville. Allen had always ...More

If you hit the music festival circuit very often, you've probably seen Donna the Buffalo. The band has been giving us great music for 30 years and is a constant on the summer festival circuit. In ...More

Austin, Texas, songwriter Chuck Hawthorne releases his new album, Fire Out of Stone, this week as a long-awaited follow-up to his 2015 debut, Silver Line. Since his emergence in the songwriting ...More

By Tim W. Jackson Remember in the mid-1990s when you loved The Dead Milkmen and They Might Be Giants but were also learning about Americana music so you loved The Gourds and Old 97s, too? Well, I ...More

Jay Rutherford  (vocals, guitar) and Aaron Mortenson (drums, vocals) have been musical partners for a decade and a half. You'll often find them with a touring band when out on the road, but the duo ...More

If you look at the summer festival circuit this year one name that pops up over and over again is Tyler Childers. You can catch him at Tailgate N' Tallboys (Peoria, Ill.), FloydFest (Floyd, Va.), and ...More

By Tim W. Jackson “It’s super exciting,” says Trent Wagler of the week facing The Steel Wheels. Wagler (guitar, banjo, lead vocals) and his bandmates release their new album Over the Trees on July ...More

Based in Brooklyn, The Rad Trads are touring hard all summer in support of On Tap, which is out on Hornblow Records. The guys met at New York University in 2012 as conservatory-trained ...More

Kevin Gordon began playing guitar in his home state of Louisiana before moving to Nashville and launching a career as a songwriter and musician. We shine the spotlight on this accomplished troubadour ...More

With summer officially arriving less than two weeks ago, we thought we'd take a quick look at a few of the music festivals happening this summer where you can see some of your favorite Americana and ...More