Americana Music News
We showed up at the City Winery’s lounge in Nashville to see Margo Price at a WMOT members’ event, but opener Joshua Hedley was a pleasant surprise.
He mines a traditional sound, but all but one song on his new “Mr. Jukebox” album on Third Man Records is an original.
The impressive set sent us out to the car to get our recording gear and set up in the bar. Voila! Instant podcast.
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Tim Easton has an intriguing new album called “Paco & the Melodic Polaroids,” a celebration of his black Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar, christened “Paco” by a Deadhead in Paris. The album was recorded direct to lacquer in Bristol, Virginia, the storied birthplace of country music.
In this Americana Music News podcast, Tim Easton talks about this compelling collection of songs – due for release on April 13 – and the path that brought him to Bristol.
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Jorma Kaukonen has had a rich career as a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, and as an accomplished solo artist. He’s ready to tell his life story in a new memoir called “Been So Long.” We had a sneak preview of the book in our conversation with Jorma at the International Folk Alliance Conference in Kansas City.
Also in this edition of the Americana Music News Podcast: A “First Person” account of Kyle Frederick’s new release Already November.
About Americana Music News: We’re in our seventh year covering Americana, roots, country and folk music from our base in Nashville. We’ve just launched a new Americana Music News podcast, available free of charge through all the leading podcast providers, including iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play Music. And please join our 23,000 Twitter followers to continue the conversation.
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Mary Gauthier has just released a truly special album of her performing songs she wrote with veterans and their families. “Rifles and Rosary Beads” is a moving collection, drawn from “Songwriting:withSoldiers” sessions. We had the pleasure of hearing more about this important project in a conversation with Mary at the Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City.
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There’s a good case to make that Chip Taylor is a godfather of Americana music. His ’70 albums – particularly “Chip Taylor’s Last Chance” – foreshadowed the genre to come. Chip has had an astonishing career as a Hall of Fame songwriter (“Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning”), as a partner with Carrie Rodriguez and as a solo artist of great integrity. In this conversation on Grammys weekend in New York, Chip tells us about his latest album “Fix Your Words.”
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Gordy Quist and his bandmates in the Band of Heathens have spent time in their studio recreating an obscure Ray Charles album from the early ’70s. We’re all for it and pretty much anything else this dynamic band produces.
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Few could have produced the Mavericks’ creative resurgence after reuniting in 2012 that led to being voted the top Americana Music Band of 2015 by the voters of the Americana Music Association. Raul Malo talks about the band’s return to glory, their new label and other exciting new projects.
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