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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Americana Music News--4.25.12

 
Overton County has strong musical heritage
Cookeville Herald Citizen
Amy Davis | Herald-Citizen Overton County is now the "Home of Americana Music." Amy Davis | Herald-Citizen OVERTON COUNTY -- He's a "hippie" on a mission -- a mission to promote an identity for the people of Overton County. But Jack Stoddart doesn't ...
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5 Questions with the Master of All Things Americana, "Sleepy" John Sandidge
Patch.com
He was one of the first promoters to coin the term Americana music, for the school of rootsy, mostly acoustic singer-songwriters, and as a promoter he's been bringing in artists to the area for more than three decades, from the Grateful Dead to Emmylou ...
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Grammy-winning Civil Wars enjoy breakthrough success after flirting with failure
Winnipeg Free Press
TORONTO - It was just a few years ago that John Paul White — now one-half of the gritty Americana duo the Civil Wars — was ready to surrender his music career. White had released his debut solo record to little fanfare in 2008 and toiled for years ...
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Music Scene: Coheed and Cambria, Jonny Corndawg Connor Donahue
Charleston Post Courier
He tells us about how good the life of a bear is and how godly it is when a Ford man turns to Chevy, all in a spirit channeling equal parts Hank Williams and Buddy Holly with a modern Americana twist. Jonny Corndawg is touring with Charleston's own ...
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This Weekend's Kindiefest Plus Conversations With Curtis Stigers and Trans ...
Huffington Post
It's basically like a mini SXSW for family music. Family music has changed much in recent years, with groups representing every possible musical genre (folk, rock, bluegrass, jazz, Latin, Americana, hip-hop, etc) only under the sub-genre of Kindie Rock ...
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New Greater Cincinnati Releases Galore
Cincinnati CityBeat
The words "swampy" and "backwoods" show up in the first sentence of Cletus Romp's bio and there are few words to better describe the quintet's unique approach to Americana music. Strutting somewhere between Tom Waits' gruff yet grounded adventurousness ...
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Why isn't Dave Alvin an Americana Legend or is he? - No ...
No Depression Americana and Roots Music ... I suspect the bigger issue is that " Americana" music doesn't generate the sales and popularity we all know it ...
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