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4 Country Songs That Will Make You Long for Home if You’re From Small-Town America

4 Country Songs That Will Make You Long for Home if You’re From Small-Town America

These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our World Today

These three classic rock songs by America are so good, they still rock our world today, decades after they were first released. The post These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our Wor...

These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our World Today

These three classic rock songs by America are so good, they still rock our world today, decades after they were first released. The post These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our Wor...

4 Country Ballads That Still Bring Crowds to Their Feet Decades Later

More People Really Should Know About: Blue Water Highway

Blue Water Highway is an Austin-based Americana/folk rock band. Their signature is considered songwriting across a variety of styles, but always melodic, with fantastic harmony sin...

Ally Venable & The Texas Blues Tradition

Louis Emory and The Reckless Few Laced ‘Prophets Said’ with Organ-Lit Americana Rock Reverence and Soulful Piety

Louis Emory and The Reckless Few turned back the clock on Americana rock n roll through the snaking curves of his guitars and the tensile vocal yearning in the standout single from...

Three wonderful new Americana tracks you’ll want to add to your playlist right away

Matt Wolf – “Living’s a Loan”-If you’re a fan of folk storytelling songwriting, the first thing I can say is that you’re in the right place. This song has a dreary almost Johnny Ca...

Tabasco Birds “Cosmic American Music”

Country music influenced by Gram Parsons, but altogether livelier and rougher around the edges. Cosmic American Music is the debut of Tabasco Birds, an eight-piece from North Texas...

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Railroad Songs

At the remove of two hundred years, it is very hard, if not impossible, to fully comprehend the impact that the expansion of railroads throughout the world had in the 19th and earl...

Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard – Travelin’ Heart

Everyone needs some good, old, Americana-inspired alt-country music here and there. Whatever music genre you prefer, alt-country music

3 Forgotten Country Bands From the 20th Century Worth Rediscovering

These forgotten coun...

3 Forgotten Country Bands From the 20th Century Worth Rediscovering

These forgotten coun...

Marley’s Ghost – ‘Honky Tonk’

Honky Tonk is a wholly engaging Americana album from Seattle-based veteran collective Marley’s Ghost. Guided by producer Larry Campbell, the record honors the musical heritage of h...

Iconic Music in Sweet Home Alabama

Can you hear it? It’s the sound of legendary music echoing through Alabama — where iconic artists recorded hit after hit and shaped the soundtrack of America.

Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurray For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that ar...

Dust-Speckled Salvation Runs Through Outpost Drive’s Americana-Twanged Heartbreaker, ‘Broken Vein’

With their Americana-twang indie pop rock authenticity and the sonic sublimity of the massive dust-speckled production, Outpost Drive should be a name on everyone in the industry’s...

Boy Golden Blurs Americana and Indie Lines at Cannery Hall

Boy Golden delivered a focused opening set at Cannery Hall, blending Americana foundations with a sound that comfortably reaches beyond genre lines. The post Boy Golden Blurs Ameri...

Song Premiere: American Blonde “Mississippi Moonshine”

American Blonde “Mississippi Moonshine” (photo by Chrissy Nix) Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of American Blonde’s song “Mississippi Moonshine” from their forthcoming...

3 Country Songs That Secretly Influenced 1990s Americana

These incredible country songs had a hand in inspiring Americana musicians, as well as the subgenre's boom, in the 1990s. The post 3 Country Songs That Secretly Influenced 1990s Am...

Bluestronica

 "I started playing guitar at fourteen, and music has been part of my life ever since. Over the years I’ve been active in many parts of the European blues scene — as a musician,...

Downstate April 2026 — Americana Music Playlist on Apple Music

Downstate April 2026! This is a nice list, with frequent and fresh quality updates. Please follow and heart Americana Highways’ Apple Music playlist, “Downstate,” curated by Rodney...

‘Tell Me Why’ by Brandon Bing Fires Up Country Into Radio-Ready Rock Electricity

Brandon Bing amplified his commercial potential without sacrificing an atom of his whiskey-soaked authenticity in his latest single, Tell Me Why. Nickelback might want to take note...