AMERICANA AND ROOTS MUSIC NEWS

Michael and Kevin Bacon offer an ideal example of what can result when two talented individuals who share the same gene pool expand their horizons, combine their talents, and create an inspired sound ...More

An old New York City rock & roller who's performed and recorded with everyone from The Band's Levon Helm to Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano and David Johansen of the New York Dolls, from 2000 to 2012 ...More

Considering their prodigious respective careers, the release of legendary G.E. Smith and LeRoy Bell’s new album, Stony Hill, sets the bar high. Perhaps best known for his decade as the ...More

By Tim W. Jackson While most of us in the Americana world would typically be gearing up for AMERICANAFEST right now, circumstances with COVID-19 have produced an all-new virtual event from the ...More

Colorado band Tenth Mountain Division is pushing the sound found in the mountains in bold new directions. Its high-energy and exploratory take on Americana draws influences from classic Southern rock, ...More

Sawyer Fredericks (above, third from left) has a new video for his single, “Lies You Tell,” from his latest album, Flowers For You. The song pairs Fredericks' powerful vocals with a rhythmic groove ...More

Brontë Fall, the songwriting pen name of classically trained multi-instrumentalist Teri Bracken, embodies the spirit of a centuries-old push by the Brontë sisters to have their—and all women’s—voices ...More

North Carolina native Chris Stamey—while playing bass, cello, and guitar in a multitude of high school bands—learned the basics of sound capture by operating a basement four-track studio in ...More

Formed in North Carolina in 2006, The Barefoot Movement is lead vocalist/fiddle player Noah Wall, mandolinist Tommy Norris, guitarist Alex Conerly and upright bassist Katie Blomarz. Now based in ...More

Andy Black, with the help of his son, Nathan, brought together dozens of people who cut their teeth at Shoe Productions to collectively tell the Shoe story in a brand-new documentary. We believe that ...More

From her album Prodigal, released this past spring, Mary McGuinness offers a video for her version of the Peter Gabriel song "Washing of the Water," which was released by Gabriel on the Us album in ...More

  Alan Williams describes the first single from his new album as "A well-worn trope about the desire to escape a small town and the ponderous weight of fate that hovers in the air." The ...More

The Nell & Jim Band features genre-busting artists delivering original music and stories, startlingly fresh arrangements, and virtuosic improvisation. The group consists of Jim Nunally on guitar, ...More

By Tim W. Jackson As a writer, I appreciate songwriting. But when a singer-songwriter's CD package includes a full book—liner notes to the extreme!—then I'm doubly impressed. Scott Cook has done ...More

Drayton Farley has a new EP just released last week whose name really describes the work quite well: Sweet Southern Sadness. Senior Editor Tim W. Jackson has become a fan of Farley's music in the past ...More