2024's Thirty Essential And Outstanding Americana Albums
Dec 13, 2024 · Who are these people who say that there’s no great music being released anymore - you know, not like when they were young? Maybe they’re just online trolls, but in any event, they couldn’t be more out of touch. We’re in a golden age of music making, and 2024 was another year to prove it. While the quantity of new roots music can be intimidating, the quality is widely distributed across ...
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I've posted a couple of coy, mysterious photos of clear blue ocean on my socials this week, but now I'll come clean. For the second year in a row, I was invited to be an official part of Delbert McClinton's Sandy Beaches Cruise, the longest running music cruise in the business and a who's who of Texas/Gulf Coast blues and R&B.
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The Red Clay Strays: God Fearing Southern Rock Gone Viral
Oct 19, 2024 · When the curtain falls on 2024, it will be hard to name an Americana/roots band that had a better year than Alabama’s Red Clay Strays. Last October, they traveled by van and played 3rd & Lindsley to a few hundred people. By the time they pulled their new bus in for their debut at the Ryman Auditorium in September, they had enough momentum to …
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Dec 27, 2024 · Daily and Weekly Schedules for WMOT Roots Radio 89.5. Select the tabs to view each schedule.
The Old Fashioned Dozen: 2024's Best Bluegrass And Old-Time
Dec 30, 2024 · The Down Hill Strugglers - Old Juniper. Old-time American folk music still thrives in Brooklyn, and these guys are leaders in that community, with roles in Jalopy Records, the Jalopy Theater and the Brooklyn Folk Festival.Their return to wax after seven years is cause for celebration, and the songs are, for the first time, all originals.
2024 was the hottest year on record. The reason remains a science ...
Jan 10, 2025 · 2024 is officially the hottest year ever recorded on Planet Earth, at least while humans have been around, according to the official tallies from meteorological organizations around the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), NASA and Copernicus—the EU's meteorological ...
WMOT’s Jessie Scott On 50 Years In Radio And The Americana Idea
Jan 6, 2025 · This one’s personal. Eight years ago, when we launched the Roots Radio format on the historic signal WMOT 89.5 FM, a few of us knew we could have no better program director than Jessie Scott, and we were fortunate that she was in the right time and place to come on board. Her 50 years of on-air experience, her expertise in Americana music, and her warm and knowledgeable voice have become the ...
All Smiles And Footwork, Minnesota's Humbird Is ‘Right On’
Dec 12, 2024 · One of my highlights of 2024 was finally getting to see Minneapolis folk rocker Humbird, an artist whose three recordings display an unusual degree of sonic imagination and bandcraft, even beyond her serene and appealing voice. On her newest, Right On, songwriter Siri Undlin conjures ghosts, protests monoculture and environmental neglect, and …
Melissa Carper - Live at AmericanaFest 2024 | WMOT
Dec 20, 2024 · The Wonder Women of Country, a side project of busy Americana songwriter/artists Brennen Leigh, Kelly Willis and Melissa Carper, started in 2021 as a touring vehicle for three friends with compatible visions of country music.