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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Glenn Cook |Jason Burns |Americana Highways
KK Hammond is a singer and slide and resonator blues guitar player with Southern swampy grooves hailing from Southern Ontario, who also has roots in the UK blues scene.
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Mark J. Pelavin |Andrew Gulden |Glenn Cook |David Nowels
photos by Allison O’Brien / AOBThis slideshow requires JavaScript. Last Tuesday night, Donald Trump delivered the first State of the Union address of his second term. Two nights later, James McMurtry took the stage at The Ram’s Head in Annapolis and provided his own, far more unvarnished take on the state of the nation.
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1 month ago | 
americanahighways.org | Jim Reynolds |Mark Joseph Engleson |Glenn Cook
Los Lobos brought their “Disconnected” tour to the Kitty Carlisle Hart Theatre at the Egg in Albany, New York on Wednesday March 5 2025. For over 50 years, Los Lobos have been garnering much deserved attention for their incredible musicianship and impressive live performances.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
americanahighways.org | Andrew Gulden |Glenn Cook
AmericanaFest2024 – Day 5There’s good and bad about Saturday at AmericanaFest. Good – the work week is over, so it’s all about the music. Bad – it’s the last day! Nashville was full of all-day events and a final night of showcases, but most of the best was to be found in one small Five Points-area bar. THE AUSSIE BBQAs I found out last year, some of Americana’s best music comes from roughly 9,600 miles away.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
americanahighways.org | Glenn Cook
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Tom Kaminski vividly remembers the first time he saw Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band live — July 8, 1981, the fifth of six shows that opened the new Meadowlands Arena near his hometown of Lodi, N.J.“It was ‘The River’ tour. The tickets were all by lottery,” says Kaminski, who had just graduated from high school. “You basically had to write a check, send it in with a self-addressed stamped envelope, and hope for the best.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
americanahighways.org | Glenn Cook
Alejandro Escovedo interviewThis slideshow requires JavaScript. As Alejandro Escovedo sat in a van, riding from Pittsburgh to Virginia on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, he thought back to that day and how close he almost was to the airplane that struck the Pentagon.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
americanahighways.org | Glenn Cook
This slideshow requires JavaScript. John Mellencamp has always had a canny understanding of the lure and value of nostalgia. It permeates a number of his best-known songs — many of them recorded more than 30 years ago — and it remains a draw to the fans who see his shows hoping to relive a part of their youth.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
americanahighways.org | Glenn Cook
Brandi Carlile at the Anthem with Hanseroth Twins openingThis slideshow requires JavaScript. After almost two decades of relentless touring, Brandi Carlile is — sort of —taking a break from the road. The Grammy Award winning songwriter, activist, and author has scaled back this year, scheduling only a few festivals and select dates through the end of 2024 with The Hanseroth Twins, her longtime collaborators.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
americanahighways.org | Glenn Cook
Jason Isbell – Lyric Opera House with Palehound
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When Jason Isbell introduces himself and The 400 Unit at the top of his shows, he no longer says, “We’re from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for the most part.”
That reality sunk in Tuesday night as Isbell and his band stopped at the Lyric Performing Arts Center in Baltimore on the second night of their latest tour behind Weathervanes, the 2023 album that won two Grammy Awards last month.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
americanahighways.org | Glenn Cook
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Each time she walks onto a stage, Grace Potter says “all bets are off, and no promises made.” She describes the set list for each show as the “pilot” and makes room for “detours” that ensure she never delivers the same show twice.
