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1 week ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
S.G. Goodman Planting by the Signs
S.G. Goodman’s 2022 album, Teeth Marks, was a revelation for a lot of us.
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3 weeks ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Jesse Daniel Son of the San Lorenzo
If you spend more than a couple of minutes on social media, you’re bound to see some yahoo ranting on what’s required to “be a man.” Usually, it’s some kind of misogynistic BS best left buried somewhere in the middle of last century. The latest record from the Bakersfield-influenced singer-songwriter Jesse Daniel, though, eschews mansplaining and basic brutishness for wisdom gained from a life on the road and more than a few mistakes.
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4 weeks ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Handsome and the Humbles – “St. Therese”Americana Highways is pleased to premiere the new song from Handsome and the Humbles, “St. Therese,” from their upcoming album, Draw Some Blood (slated for release on June 27). “St. Therese” was written by Joshua Mikhael Smith, composed by Smith and Joshua Hutson and recorded and mixed at Castle Greyscale in Knoxville, Tennessee by Kris “Tugboat” Smith.
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Watchhouse – Rituals
Spinning a Watchhouse record trends to transport me away from…whatever real-world crazy is the most troubling. My first two listens of their latest album, Rituals, occurred during a particularly rainy Colorado Saturday (we don’t deal well with that kind of gloom here) and, a couple days later, a less-than-productive meeting at my 9-to-5.
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Matt Berninger – Get Sunk
The songs of The National, even on the band’s earlier records, have largely dealt with grown-up stuff (or, in more than a few cases, adults handling their shit in a not very grown-up way).
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Florry – Sounds Like…Nearly every moment of a Florry album sounds like it could tumble completely off the rails, and that’s largely by design. Singer-songwriter Francie Medosch’s lyrics aren’t about quiet, delicate moments, but the intentional loudness of living queer, surrounded by a few close friends and allies, and finding your place in the world with absolutely zero apologies.
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Ken Pomeroy Cruel Joke
Coyotes are all over Ken Pomeroy’s latest album. Not the way they’re all over so many of America’s suburbs, a symbol of how we’ve managed to foul up the environment and drive nature’s creatures from their natural home. On Cruel Joke (the singer-songwriter’s first release for Rounder Records), the canines (along with sheep and wolves, horses and stray dogs) serve as stand-ins for the ways we manage to mess up our own, personal environments, one hurt at a time.
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Will Johnson photo by Todd WolfsonWill Johnson is kind of the hyphenate of all hyphenates. The singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist-novelist-painter (seriously – he creates beautiful art, often centered around baseball) is currently touring with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, but his multi-tendrilled career goes back decades, including bands Centro-matic and Monsters of Folk, as well as making a record with the late Jason Molina and a slew of his own solo albums.
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Kassi Valazza From Newman StreetWe all know the old saw about the definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Sometimes, though, doing the same thing and expecting the same result is more fraught with failure. Singer-songwriter Kassi Valazza, until recently based in Portland, Oregon, released two excellent records while in the Pacific Northwest, including 2023’s psych-laced triumph Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing.
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2 months ago | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden
Samia – Bloodless
There’s a notion (a fairly silly one) that certain music – usually dependent on the age of the performer – is only digestible by a fairly narrow age group. Honestly, even I’ve been tricked by that presumption. Last time singer-songwriter Samia swung through Denver, I chose not to go, even though I’d loved her recent Tiny Desk Concert. I figured the songs – and her crowd – would be too “young” for me. That was dumb.
