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NPR's Newport Folk Festival stream is the next... →
to being there. Great on a cloudy summer day.
Along with the NFF tumblr & the Newport Folk Festival tag.
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With a lot of rumination, that Loretta/Sinatra duet is pretty much the worst thing ever. It’s a meeting of two worlds that shouldn’t. Conway and Loretta - similar background, same style & sensibilities. Frank and Dean - same thing. But Frank & Loretta, it doesn’t work at all.
While Dean Martin made a couple loungy country albums and would do a fair bit of crossover on...
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This Week on American Routes: Hard Times and Honky...
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July 25th, 2012 ~ The sounds may seem old but the songs are not. This week on American Routes we visit with a few musicians who are known for crafting modern country music from old-time inspirations. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings share with us how they fit “an electric peg into an acoustic hole.” Then conversation with Austin’s king of the honky-tonks, Dale Watson, who...
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What's in yer earholes?
What amazing Country/Americana music is playing on your turntable, in your tape deck/CD player/Spotify/Rdio/Pandora/last.fm or whatever your preferred method of song delivery happens to be these days?
Me? I’ve got Giant Sand, Sanctified Grumblers, Waylon Jennings and Mariachi el Bronx.
I collect all the answers and make a playlist out of them (see previous). They always turn out to be a...
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Awesome Country/Americana playlists and mixtapes?
Post links of your favorites in the answers.
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