There’s plenty of time-tripping to be done tonight as the Americana Music Festival opens in Nashville. It’s a measure of the genre’s wide embrace that performers who first hit their stride in every decade since the ’60s – and songs that were written years before that – are in the mix of showcase performances. At the Rutledge at 9 p.m.,…
Ryan Adams’ “Ashes & Fire” is top chart debut
The top three slots in this week’s Americana Music Association Chart carry overfrom last week, with the Jayhawks’ “Mocking Bird Time” at number one, followed by Robert Earl Keen’s “Ready for Confetti” and John Hiatt’s “Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns.” The top entry on the Americana chart is Ryan Adams’ just-released “Ashes & Fire,” breaking in at number 16, with…
Preview: Americana Music Festival 2011 in Nashville
The 2011 Americana Music Festival lights up Nashville this week, bringing a remarkably diverse and talented range of artists to the city’s venues. And of course, it also prompts the question: “What is Americana music?” Peter Cooper of the Tennessean took a stab at it in 2003: American music is “country music that is too rooted and true for contemporary…
Americana Music Festival schedule: Wednesday, Oct. 12
Sun209: The Americana Music Journal will be providing extensive coverage of the Americana Music Festival in Nashville all week. Here’s a quick look at opening night: 7 pm Music City Roots at the Loveless Barn, featuring Grayson Capps, The Wilders, Elephant Revival, The Milk Carton Kids, and Scott Miller and Mic Harrison of the V-Roys The Basement 8 pm Brian…