Carlene Carter, granddaughter to country music matriarch Maybelle Carter, last year told The Tennessean that the Americana genre existed "so honest people can make real music that defies needing smash ...

Sierra Ferrell, arguably the roots-music queen of the moment, made good on her ascendance with two top wins at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards, picking up trophies for both artist of the year and ...

Country music has undergone an incredibly polarizing split since its origins and what has resulted is two rivaling genres—Country and Americana. Now what is considered “better” is entirely up the the ...

“Let’s go to WeHo in the meantime” doesn’t have the same ring to it, but legendary singer-songwriter and longtime Tennessean resident John Hiatt returned to his old haunts in L.A. to be serenaded by a ...

Americana, by definition, is American roots music, which has grown from folk beginnings to the country rock of Gram Parsons to the alternative country of Uncle Tupelo and beyond. Uncle Tupelo not only ...

The Americana Music Honors & Awards handed out its top competitive trophies to Sierra Ferrell, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, I’m With Her, MJ Lenderman and Gillian Welch & David Rawlings in a ...

Three years ago, NPR published an article on the Black female recording artists who were challenging racism and exclusion, in an industry that has long refused to properly acknowledge the foundational ...

Singer-songwriter Flamy Grant organized an "Alt-Mericana" showcase for LGBTQ+ artists during Americanafest in Nashville. The event will take place at The Lipstick Lounge on Sept. 12 and feature ...

Music fans around the globe, and Nashvillians in particular, know the Americana Music Association Festival and Conference as “AmericanaFest” for short. And they’ve been flocking to Music City since ...

You can credit the pandemic — and the misery and free time it brought with it — for bringing both the twanger and the songwriter out of Molly Brandt. “I always wanted to write songs, but lacked the ...