Americana Music News--3.28.12

Click photo to enlarge Monterey County Herald Americana singer, songwriter and fiddler Amanda Shires headlines the third Turf Club Music Series concert Saturday night at the Turf Club at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Playing the six degrees of separation name game, Texas-born Nashville-based ... See all stories on this topic »

Railroad Earth to host MOTM Boone Mountain Times Celebrated Americana outfit Railroad Earth will host this year's Music on the Mountaintop, hitting Foscoe Aug. 24-26. Music on the Mountaintop, the annual music festival outside Boone, will return Aug. 24 to 26 as "Railroad Earth's Music on the ... See all stories on this topic » Boone Mountain Times

Review: The McEuens and The Snyder Family Band at Woodsongs Lexington Herald Leader One ensemble on the bill was an essentially new (but altogether unassuming) enterprise led by one of country/Americana music's most formidable instrumentalists. The other was a little known unit (as least in Central Kentucky) rooted in bluegrass ... See all stories on this topic » Lexington Herald Leader

Jim Lauderdale will perform for SkillsUSA at FCHS Franklin News Post He may be best known for his songwriting and Americana achievements. In 2002, Lauderdale received both the Artist of the Year and Song of the Year awards from the Americana Music Association. Lauderdale is credited for two songs on the "Pure Country" ... See all stories on this topic »

Quartet's music "sticks" with you ThisWeekNews Actually, Trent Wagler, main singer and songwriter for Americana quartet The Steel Wheels, is a bit embarrassed by the amount of attention his group has received for the two songs they've written and performed accompanied only by the six-foot long ... See all stories on this topic » ThisWeekNews

Muckrakes member Cory Nealon leaves band for new life in Buffalo Daily Press (blog) Blending roots Americana sounds with fresh, vital rock, the band grew to be one of the region's best -- and that's not just Daily Press pride talking. Nealon's inventive songwriting, Dylanesque singing and musical vision have been a key part of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Music Forecast March 29-April 4 Pitch Weekly Ruddy Swain, a collaboration between the Grisly Hand singer Lauren Krum and David Regnier of Dead Voices, lends an Americana lead-in to the evening's festivities. Seun Kuti, the son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, has emerged as a torch carrier of his ... See all stories on this topic » Pitch Weekly

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ORBO & The Longshots "Highway Tears" - Americana Music - Music ... My houseguests left on Monday. When you live in Austin, Texas, you always have houseguests during SXSW®. It's kind of like living in Orlando, where you ... musicfog.com/home/.../orbo-the-longshots-highway-tears.html

The SteelDrivers "When You Don't Come Home" - Americana Music ... I am on a personal mission to eradicate the idea that if it comes from Nashville, it must be plastic. Yes, the mainstream country industry is centered there, but ... musicfog.com/.../the-steeldrivers-when-you-dont-come-home...

Country/Folk/Americana Music - Survivalist Forum Country/Folk/Americana Music Jokes, Humor & Music. www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?p=3955848

Americana Music Record Promotion Popular, well know and respected Texas Music Record Promotion company is branching out to include Americana Music Record Promotion. For more ... houston.craigslist.org/muc/2925403981.html

Americana Music Festival Submissions Due : MusicRow ... The 2012 Americana Music Festival is set for Sept. 12-15 at various Nashville venues, and the ... www.musicrow.com/.../americana-music-festival-submissions-...