Posts tagged "Americana music"
Roots Music Report's Top 50 Roots/Americana Albums Chart - February 2014

Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Roots/Americana Albums Chart – February 2014

JUNO Award-winning Canadian band Blackie and The Rodeo Kings' January release, South, was #1 on Roots Music Report's new monthly Top 50 Roots/Americana Albums Chart for February 2014. Rounding out the top 10 most-played albums were discs by The Stray Birds, Brandy Clark, Guy Clark, Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five, The Greencards, Mandolin Orange, Michael Martin Murphey, Tim Easton and Ray Benson. [Roots Music Report's first monthly Top 50 Roots/American Albums Chart is posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com. To view it, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 01-25-14

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 01-25-14

Jubilee by The Deep Dark Woods, a Canadian folk-rock and alt-country band, topped the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week. The River & The Thread, the latest release from American singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, moved up to the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Americana-Roots Country Top %0 albums charts, which are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com with permission, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 01-18-14

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 01-18-14

Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Texas troubadour Guy Clark's My Favorite Picture of You retained the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. [The Folk and Americana/Roots Country Top 50 albums charts are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com with permission. To read them, Click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 01-11-14

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 01-11-14

Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott topped the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Texas troubadour Guy Clark's My Favorite Picture of You was #1 on the Americana/roots country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Americana/Roots Country charts, which are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com with permission, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 12-21-13

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 12-21-13

The David Bromberg Band's Only Slightly Mad topped the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Lori McKenna's album Massachusetts returned to the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. [To view the Folk and Americana/Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com with permission, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 12-14-13

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 12-14-13

Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Internal Sounds by The Sadies returned to the #1 spot on the Americana-roots country chart. {To view the Folk and Americana/Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com with permission, click on the headline.]

Nominees Named for 56th Annual Grammy Awards

Nominees in more than 80 categories have been named for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, to be presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. Of particular interest to readers of AcousticMusicScene.com are the nominees in the American Roots Music Field. Among them, Sarah Jarosz and Steve Martin & Edie Brickell received nods in two categories. [To read the full article, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 12-07-13

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 12-07-13

Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott continued in the #1 spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week. Massachusetts by Lori McKenna tops the Americana/Roots Country chart. {To view the Folk and Americana/Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com with permission, click on the headline.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 11-30-13

Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Internal Sounds by Canadian alt-country rockers The Sadies retained the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. Linda Thompson's Won't Be Long Now and Lori McKenna's Massachusetts moved into the #2 positions on the respective charts. [The current Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com. To view them, click on the headline below.]

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 11-23-13

Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Internal Sounds by Canadian alt-country rockers The Sadies retained the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. [The current Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com. To view them, click on the headline below.]
'Nashville 2.0: The Rise of Americana' Airs on PBS

‘Nashville 2.0: The Rise of Americana’ Airs on PBS

The burgeoning Americana music scene is the focus of Nashville 2.0, a new hour-long music documentary that airs on PBS television stations across the U.S. on Nov. 22. The special, which may be viewed as a primer of the genre, features performances by a number of well-known roots music artists and emerging artists who are transcending traditional boundaries and putting their own contemporary stamp on long-established genres like country, folk, bluegrass, blues, roots rock, R&B, rockabilly, folk-rock and honky-tonk that have inspired what is broadly known as Americana today. These are interspersed with filmed interviews with some of these artists as well as select music journalists and historians. [To continue reading the article, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 11-16-13

Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Radio Charts, 11-16-13

Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott returned to the #1 spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Internal Sounds by Canadian alt-country rockers The Sadies advanced to the top position on the Americana-Roots Country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Americana-Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com, click on the headline.]