Last week we confidently predicted a long run for Lyle Lovett’s Release Me at the top of the Americana Music Association airplay chart. So much for that. This week Justin Townes Earles’ Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me moved past it to the number one position.
Chart debuts this week: The Steep Canyon Rangers’ Nobody Knows You at #22, the Infamous Stringdusters’ Silver Sky at #30, The Lumineers album at #34 and Anais Mitchell’s Young Man in America at #40.
The most-added album on Americana music radio was Hank III’s Long Gone Daddy.
Ryan Adams’s Ashes & Fire won’t budge from the top of the 
Given this site’s obvious affection for Sun Records, it’s heartening – and a little astounding – to see two albums on the Americana Music Chart pay tribute to the label. Dale Watson and the Texas Two are at #25 with “The Sun Sessions” and Chris Isaak breaks in at #31 this week with the two-CD “Beyond the Sun.” The music is more than half a century old, but still sounds vibrant.