Americana's breadth is as deep as it is wide. The genre embraces artists playing everything from gospel to pop, R&B to country, folk to soul; it's not so much about a particular sound as it is about a ...
In June of 2015, Rosanne Cash performed at Dockery Farms, an early 20th-century Mississippi Delta sharecropping cotton plantation – recognized as one of the foundational birthplaces of the blues – ...
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 ...