In 2018, the annual Americana Music Festival, and its accompanying Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, welcomed a wildly eclectic group of honorees and devotees to Nashville, all in the name of ...

You can call it what you want, but you won’t hear it on mainstream country radio. That’s the consensus of Americana’s top musicians and thinkers. And if you haven’t heard the term before, that’s kind ...

The evening will feature a Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame House Band assembled by Music Director Scott Sharrard (Gregg Allman Band) and featuring Tony Leone (Little Feat), Mike Merritt (The Max ...

Valerie June is a roots singer -- or, an Americana one, depending on who you ask -- who recently performed in Dallas. Courtesy photo The musical genre Americana is nearly as vast as the country it's ...

West Virginia native Sierra Ferrell's now storied ability to turn any concert in any venue in the world into an existential journey into a juke joint party is growing in renown. She can now add yet ...

Morgan Wallen was caught on video saying a racial slur. Oliver Anthony’s song “Rich Men North of Richmond” (2023) became a conservative anthem for right-wing politicians. Jason Aldean’s music video ...

Country music labels, including the three powerful major corporate labels, have broadened their artist development strategies, shifted promotional campaigns and even launched new imprints in order to ...

The term Americana, at least when applied to music, is somewhat amorphous. It's specific, but also quite broad; it's one thing made up of all these other things, which is kind of like America itself.

The Americana Music Honors & Awards handed out its top competitive trophies to Sierra Ferrell, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, I’m With Her, MJ Lenderman and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings in a ...

It was supposed to be one of the proudest moments of her career. Adia Victoria was performing with her band at the historic Newport Folk Festival last year when, shortly after their set, a prominent ...