Tag Archives: Americana

Firmly established as a talent to be reckoned with, Viele won two New England Music Awards in 2016, for Album of the Year and Male Performer of the Year. 'Howl' called his shows 'transcendent,' with music that 'will rattle your bones and penetrate to the core.'

Based on the 'Your Prettiness' appetizer, 'Blue Flame' promises to be a yummy presentation of roots-blues music that will boil your blood and leave you panting for more. Peter Karp knows how to bring heat to the blues.

Ramminger accomplishes to compose earthy arrangements with lyrics that intimate a candid off-the-cuff banter.

Grayson Capps' 'Scarlett Roses' is one of the best albums I've heard to come out of North America this year.

Straight-ahead but rough-edged and with quirky lyrics, Lisik's songs are self-aware with a sometimes tongue-in-cheek attitude but nonetheless soaked in real feeling.

With a voice like a clear mountain stream, rippled with emotion and swirled with a hint of gold-dust gravel, Americana singer-songwriter Mary Bragg infuses each song with passion quickened by intelligent lyrics and resonant melodies, all backed up by superb musicianship and production.

Holcombe creases a sense of decrepitude and weariness into his deliberately half-wrecked-sounding voice and uses both to pointed effect, speaking directly to the immigrant, the wanderer, the home-seeker in all of us.

'Freedom Highway' from Rhiannon Giddens is one of those amazing rarities, a politically charged and artistically refined album. The music is spectacular, the lyrics are beautiful and inspiring, and the singing is as glorious as you'll hear anywhere.

The second release from the Americana-country-rock singer-songwriter is another layered, emotion-laden effort.

‘Six String Soldier’ is a richly textured and highly enjoyable Americana, blues, and rock EP.