Garage/rockabilly legend Dex Romweber gives T Bone Burnett’s “I Don’t Know” (originally performed by Jeff Bridges and Ryan Bingham for the film Crazy Heart) a stripped-down, up-tempo, two-steppin’ makeover.
Garage/rockabilly legend Dex Romweber gives T Bone Burnett’s “I Don’t Know” (originally performed by Jeff Bridges and Ryan Bingham for the film Crazy Heart) a stripped-down, up-tempo, two-steppin’ makeover.
Music can help us calm down or rev up. It can teach us and heal us, or just help us fill a void. At it’s best, though, it’s redemptive — a truth Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, perhaps better known […]
What an embarrassment of riches we’ve gotten in terms of new releases this season, from some of the finest artists on the scene — those who have been around for decades, and those who are just finding their footing. This […]
Americana Fest 2016 has ended. Once again, it was six nights and five days when an international community gathered around its common love and respect for a kind of music that is raw, honest, earnestly human, universal. We could break it […]
On his stellar new album, Gotta Get Back, Seth Walker excavates the roots of his love affair with music by reuniting the family that helped spark the fire in him all those years ago. Walker, who grew up on a multi-family […]
This week, we’re turning our spotlight on a handful of artists whose music centers around excellent songwriting. First up is fiddler/poet Amanda Shires, who’s always had a knack for lyrical excellence, and her latest effort, My Piece of Land, is […]
Sixteen years into the annual Americana Music Association Conference and Festival, the event shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, what attendees used to casually refer to as a sort of miniature SXSW gathering for roots music people has […]