(Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell) Shovels & Rope, Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller top the list of nominees for the Americana Music Association’s 2013 Honors & Awards, announced earlier today at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale opened the ceremony with a George Jones tribute. Later, Lisa Marie Presley took [...]

Get ready for The Buddy and Jim Show. Kingpins of Americana Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale have announced that they will co-host a radio show on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country. The new show, which can be found on channel 60, debuts August 4 at 10:00 pm ET. With in-depth interviews and musical performances from roots-friendly artists [...]

(Rosie Flores, Will Sexton, Charlie Faye and Noelle Hampton singing “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” in the Wine & Nut Room at this year’s Folk Alliance) Unlike the giant South By Southwest Music & Media Conference kicking off in Austin this week, the International Folk Alliance Conference is an intimate deal where the [...]

If you love great songwriting, there’s really no better vacation than the 30A Songwriters Festival, held every year along highway 30A in the beach communities of South Walton, Florida. It’s the perfect destination for lyric lovers, acoustic guitar fetishists, and those who enjoy music with a deeper meaning. It’s also a great place to make [...]

The 30A Songwriters Festival in South Walton, Florida.

On November 19, PBS will air ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival, an airing of September’s Americana Music Awards, held at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The 2011 Americana Music Awards: That Old Time Rock and Roll Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, Gregg Allman, Alison Krauss, The Avett Brothers and The Civil Wars are among the artists who will [...]

Early on in his keynote address at last week’s Americana Music Festival and Conference, Neil Portnow—head honcho of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences—made a point to note that the creation of an Americana Grammy category and the inclusion of an Americana definition in the dictionary affirm the distinct identity of the genre. [...]

Ange Boxall hails from Tasmania, but that doesn’t mean all her songs are about Bugs Bunny. Boxall recently touched down in the United States to promote her excellent new album, Writing Letters, which finds her collaborating with Americana ringleader Jim Lauderdale and JD Souther, who’s penned hits for The Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. If you’re [...]

The 2011 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion celebrated its 11th year with sets by Justin Townes Earle, Jim Lauderdale, Langhorne Slim and more.

(photo: Tom Daley) One of our favorite new music festivals is The Festy, a three-day bash in the Blue Ridge Mountains that was founded last year by The Infamous Stringdusters. The lineup for this year’s event, which takes place October 7-9 in Nelson County, Virginia, includes Brett Dennen, Sarah Siskind, Jim Lauderdale and the David [...]

(The Infamous Stringdusters) Bluegrass has something most other active American musical genres don’t—the ever-present notion of a musical family tree. The patriarch at the top of it is Bill Monroe. He and his Blue Grass Boys arrived at the hot, new, hard-driving, high-and-lonesome sound heard ‘round the world in the mid-‘40s. To this day, he [...]

If you’re looking for a great collection of retro-leaning country music performed with modern day swagger, look no further than Kenny Vaughan’s V. V is the debut album from the veteran guitar-slinger who’s backed up everyone from Marty Stuart (Vaughan is a longtime member of Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives) to Lucinda Williams to Jim Lauderdale to [...]