2024年12月13日 · Who are these people who say that there’s no great music being released anymore - you know, not like when they were young? Maybe they’re just online trolls, but in any event, they couldn’t be more out of touch. We’re in a golden age of music making, and 2024 was another year to prove it. While the quantity of new roots music can be intimidating, the quality is widely distributed across ...

2024年11月11日 · The Americana Music Association was born at a series of meetings by roots music executives and advocates in 1999. As the AMA wraps up its 25th anniversary year, the scene it’s helped foster is bigger and more star-studded than its original organizers might have predicted. The 4,000-member organization has achieved many goals, from Grammy recognition to a more diverse and inclusive artist ...

2024年12月30日 · The Down Hill Strugglers - Old Juniper. Old-time American folk music still thrives in Brooklyn, and these guys are leaders in that community, with roles in Jalopy Records, the Jalopy Theater and the Brooklyn Folk Festival.Their return to wax after seven years is cause for celebration, and the songs are, for the first time, all originals.

I've posted a couple of coy, mysterious photos of clear blue ocean on my socials this week, but now I'll come clean. For the second year in a row, I was invited to be an official part of Delbert McClinton's Sandy Beaches Cruise, the longest running music cruise in the business and a who's who of Texas/Gulf Coast blues and R&B.

2024年10月19日 · When the curtain falls on 2024, it will be hard to name an Americana/roots band that had a better year than Alabama’s Red Clay Strays. Last October, they traveled by van and played 3rd & Lindsley to a few hundred people. By the time they pulled their new bus in for their debut at the Ryman Auditorium in September, …

2025年1月22日 · This episode’s String show notes are a modified transcript. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein virtually invented the genre we know as the musical with era-shaping shows including Carousel, South Pacific and The Sound of Music.But their first musical together, one that helped usher in the golden age of Broadway, was Oklahoma!, which premiered on March 31, 1943, at the St ...

2020年11月4日 · I’ve never been to Elizabeth, Minnesota, population 170, and I’m going out on a limb in guessing that you haven’t either, but clamp on some headphones, cue up Brennen Leigh’s new song about the town, and after her four-minute tour, delivered in an intimate western jazz singer’s tone, you’ll be transported.

2024年11月8日 · Welcome, Beyoncé, to the Americana movement. Among the R&B superstar’s personal record of 11 Grammy Award nominations announced on Friday is her song “Yaya”, a wild, finger-snapping, drum-line pounding, explicit track from the album Cowboy Carter.The innovative, country-inspired concept opus is up for Album of …

2024年12月31日 · "Brain rot" is the Oxford word of the year for 2024, and it's pretty much what it sounds like: a perceived mental decline from consuming too much online media. If just reading that definition has you worried about your gray matter, never fear! Researchers are finding promising — and surprising — ways to boost our brain health and de-stress our minds.

2024年11月19日 · Joe Boyd is one of the most accomplished and eclectic record producers in the story of popular music. As an American living in London, he helped break psychedelic folk rock pioneers The Incredible String Band and worked with Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, and Fairport Convention. He founded Hannibal Records, giving a home …