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May 6, 2013 Howdy, On episode 138 of the Americana Music Show, Carrie Rodriguez talks about working fiddles into her songs, the influence New York had on her music, and channeling Alejandro Escovedo. Plus feel good rock from Marshall Chapman, roots rock from The Del Lords, Texas twang from Shinyribs, a tribute to Louis Armstrong from the [Read this post.]
April 29, 2013 Howdy, On episode 137 of the Americana Music Show, Hannah Thomas talks about Georgia being a “musical mashup,” admiring Steve Earle, and listening to the highway men growing up. Plus a Willie Nelson cover of a Dorothy Fields song, Shannon McNally Covering Bobby Charles, Amos Lee covering John Denver, the Howlin’ Brothers [Read this post.]
Howdy, On episode 136 of the Americana Music Show, Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden talks to Rick Cornell about why he moved to Chicago, listening to sad songs in the 70′s and taking his own song writing advice. Plus rock and roll from Javi Garcia, southern rock from the Deadstring Brothers, alt.country from David Hardin, a [Read this post.]
Malcolm Holcombe performes “My Baby Like’s A Love Song” from his Gamblin’ House album. You can hear Rick Cornell’s interview with Malcolm Holcombe on episode 107 of the Americana Music Show.
[Read this post.]April 15, 2013 Howdy, On episode 135 of the Americana Music Show, Ryan Bailey of The Riverbreaks talks Rick Cornell about his time in Chapel Hill, rebelling against country music, and writing songs in the jungle. Plus rock and roll from the Electic Rag Band, roots rock from Beth Lee and the Breakups, southern rock from [Read this post.]
I have an account on Spotify. The ID is “AmerShow” and I use it for basically one purpose, to host the Americana Music Show Heavy Rotation playlist. Tonight I got an email from them. Subject: Hey amershow, we found 3 artists that you may like The first recommendation? will.i.am Uh. No. But thanks for playing.
[Read this post.]Because you can never be on to many social networks, the Americana Music Show is now on Google Plus. I’ll be adding episode announcements news announcements, reviews, and recent adds. Basically the same content that goes on the Facebook page. The nice thing about Google Plus is that it’s much easier to get discussions going with [Read this post.]
March 25, 2013, On episode 132 of the Americana Music Show, Amanda Pearcy talks to Rick Cornell about the quintessential Texas small town, her favorite listening room venue, and her tribute to “party dolls.” Plus roots rock from Johnny and the MoTones, blues from Maya and the Ruins, twang from Kelly Willis and Bruce Robinson, country-rock [Read this post.]
Official Music Video for “The Surrender” from the 2013 Michael Rank and Stag album IN THE WEEDS. Visit http://www.michaelrankmusic.com/ for more information.
[Read this post.]March 18, 2013 On episode 131 of the Americana Music Show, Rachel Brooke talks about what the blues has that modern music doesn’t, her Fats Domino cover, and why she included a xylophone on A Killer’s Dream. Plus alt.country from Left Arm Tan, lo-fi blues from the Reverend Freakchild, indie songwriting from Gurf Morlix, country-rock from [Read this post.]
March 11, 2013 On episode 130 of the Americana Music Show, Steve Storms and Steve Celestini of the Gravy Boys talk about how to make the apocalypse fun and keeping a band together with brutal honesty. Plus southern rock from the Tim Lee 3, a boozy ballad from J Shorgren, Canadian rock from Enter The Haggis, [Read this post.]
January 14, 2013 Howdy, The Beautiful Loser Society has been making music since about 2009 or so, but I just stumbled across their Desperate Promenade album, which has some really good bittersweet rock and roll in it. I’m adding “What I Deserve” to rotation this week. The Leavers were founded in 2012 by south Austin [Read this post.]
January 7, 2013 Howdy, The Bloody Angle band gets their name from one of the landmark battlefields at Gettysburg during the civil War. With a name like that you’d expect their debut self-titled album to have a lot of historical songs along the lines of Stone Coyotes. There’s a certain amount of that, especially in [Read this post.]
Pete Pawsey from Radar’s Clowns of Sedation on knowing “different hymns from y’all,” his Stones/Muscle Shoals moment, and the importance of Sippie Wallace.
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Malcolm Holcombe on “time capsules on roller skates,” living your history, pulling cars out of ditches, and hoping to get out of gigs alive.
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#90 Moot Davis talks about why he had to go to New Zealand to start work on his new album, Man About Town; why he’s a suit and tie kind of country singer; and the importance of being in control of your own destiny.
[Read this post.]Live recording from a performance at the Cat’s Cradle in October 2006 Listen: http://traffic.libsyn.com/taprootmedia/tms03.mp3 Links: Randy Whitt web site on Reverb Nation. Legal: The Taproot Music Spotlight is copyright 2006 by Calvin Powers and may not be used for commercial purposs without permission. The performance is used with permission. The Taproot theme music is [Read this post.]
