HEY! LISTEN: Grant Glad Honors Coal Workers’ Sacrifice In “The Ballad of Clinton Harris”

Grant Glad and Soo Line Loons offered plenty of excellent songwriting on their most recent album One Man’s Story. But there was one song left on the cutting room floor:…

Minneapolis’ The Gated Community Uses Americana to Speak Truth to Power

Minneapolis’ The Gated Community’s latest album, The Honor and The Glory, was born through fire — literally. Frontman Sumanth Gopinath and his partner Beth Hartman (vocals, percussion) lived blocks away…

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LISTEN: R McClure Is a Wayfaring Stranger On “when i get back home to you”

After spending a weekend in Nashville’s ticky-tacky-box condos, drab architecture, and woeful lack of pedestrian infrastructure, I was ready to get back to my wife and pup in New York.…

The Best Americana of March 15, 2024: Adrian Sutherland, bedbug, Kara Jackson & More!

Listen to my favorite tracks off each album on my Spotify or Tidal playlists! Updated weekly with all the best new country, Americana, and whatever else I feel like —…



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