This Week in Americana

November 27 - December 1, 2023

Introducing From ONE, to TENN.
This new series features one-of-a-kind performances recorded at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center during AMERICANAFEST 2023. 
This week's artist: Mary Gauthier.
This Week in Americana is on Spotify.
Featuring music from the current week, check out what's fresh and new in the Americana community all in one place with our Spotify playlist!
Balsam Range
Kinetic Tone
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Futurebirds & Carl Broemel
...Thanks Y'all (Live)
Amos Lee
Honeysuckle Switches:
The Songs of Lucinda Williams
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Lilli Lewis
All Is Forgiven
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Zach Russell
Where the Flowers Meet the Dew
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The Wilder Blue
Super Natural
    • Lana Del Rey covers John Denver’s classic "Take Me Home, Country Roads" with her trademark ethereal melancholy sound. Listen here

    • Luke Grimes shares a cover of Blaze Foley’s "Clay Pigeons," a personal favorite of the singer and Yellowstone star. Listen here

    • With his "most open and honest record," Cody Jinks bares it all about his journey to clean living on "Sober Thing," from his upcoming album Change The Game (out Mar. 22, 2024). Listen here

    • With "Indian Hunters Return," Cary Morin paints an idyllic and bittersweet portrait of the American West through indigenous peoples’ eyes, akin to the Charles M. Russell artwork that his upcoming album Innocent Allies (out Jan. 26, 2024) pays homage to. Listen here

    • Tanner Usrey has announced his headlining Crossing Lines Tour, which hits the road on January 5, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. See full list of dates
    Americana On Your Screen
    Madison Cunningham
    Red Rocks Trail Mix Session
    Robert Jon &
    The Wreck
    "Help Yourself"
    Josiah and the Bonnevilles
    "Kentucky Flood"
    Ashley McBryde
    "The Devil I Know (Live)" 
    William Prince
    NPR Tiny Desk Concert
    Jobi Riccio
    "Sweet"
    (CBS Saturday Session)
    Molly Tuttle &
    Golden Highway
    "Down Home Dispensary"
    Cristina Vane & Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
    No Depression AMERICANAFEST Session
    New & Noteworthy News
    • With the beloved band’s music having graced the concert stage for years, the Avett Brothers’ songs have found their way to a new stage—musical theater—with the musical Swept AwayRead more

    • World Cafe’s mini-concert series, recorded during AMERICANAFEST 2023 at Sound Stage Studios, continues with performances by Brandy Clark and Tommy PrineListen here

    • Vincent Neil Emerson and Charley Crockett joined The Bluegrass Situation for a conversation about their friendship and respective career paths, as well as the kinship between them and their peers like Leon Bridges, Tyler Childers, and Colter Wall. Read more

    • "When I was trying to fit in different circles I felt different; I never felt like I was wrong, I just felt like, ‘Okay well we’re different’." — Iron & Wine opens up on the Basic Folk podcast about his family fostering his individuality when he was young, and the importance of creativity as well as the realization that creation isn’t simply making something perfect but also imperfectly reproducing it in a live setting. Listen here

    • "But at some point, I just got negative. [I questioned] being someone who needed to say something to everyone all the time." — Todd Snider discusses his recent LP Crank It, We’re Doomed, which was created in 2007 but shelved by the artist due to self-doubt and how drawing on lessons learned from lost friends like Jimmy Buffett, Loretta Lynn, and John Prine inspired him to put the record out and consider sharing more of his unreleased works. Read more

    • "Our audience has grown so much in the past year and a half since we started playing as a band...It does feel like everyone is working together to build this music, to build bluegrass and Americana." — Molly Tuttle talks about the big year she and her band Golden Highway have had, featuring on the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and how she’s excited for the future for genre-blending acts like herself, Sierra Ferrell, Noah Kahan, and more. Read more
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