This week in Americana
Lucinda Williams’ Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone tops the Americana Music Association airplay chart for yet another week, followed by Justin Townes Earle’s Single Mothers, Paul Thorn’s Too Blessed to Be Stressed (reviewed here) and the latest from Shovels and Rope (review), Ryan Adams and John Hiatt (review.)
In Nashville: Music City Roots at the Factory in Franklin features Selwyn Birchwood, Taylor Beshears, Keelan Donovan and Whiskey Shivers on Oct. 15. Tickets are $15.
Sons of Bill at the High Watt, Friday, Oct. 17
Steel Wheels at 3rd and Lindsley, Oct. 17
Jessi Alexander, Jonathan Singleton, Barry Dean and Jon Randall at the Bluebird Café, Oct. 17
Angaleena Presley is featured at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Songwriter Session at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18.
The Long Players recreate Born in the USA at 3rd and Lindsley, Oct. 18
In the news:
The Country Music Hall of Fame announced a major exhibition set for March 27, 2015: Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats, Museum director Kyle Young says “this exhibit is a great opportunity to talk about the early confluence of country and rock.”
The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix has just opened an exhibit celebrating the Carter Family and Johnny Cash.
Americana on tour:
Runner of the Woods in Newport, Kentucky 10/16, Thomas, West Virginia 10/17 and Bluefield, West Virginia, 10/18.
New releases this week:
American Middle Class by Angaleena Presley
The Essential Kinks
Ride Out by Bob Seger
All Them Ghosts by Pauline Andres, “written over 4 years in 4 different countries,” according to the release.