Americana is the best music genre EVAH!

Honkridge

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Honkridge said:
Country music that tells a story worth hearing. A baring of the soul from a guy who doesn't have a clean shirt. Gibson J45s cause D28s are too pricey. No autotune...keepin it real dog.
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I know lots of people that have an issue with that label. I don’t mind it. There are about as many definitions for Americana as there are for Rock.
 
I was still living in Nashville when Richard Thompson was honored at the Americana Music Awards. I love the genre and I adore Richard, but come on. Maybe it's time to choose a different term.
 
dmn23 said:
I was still living in Nashville when Richard Thompson was honored at the Americana Music Awards. I love the genre and I adore Richard, but come on. Maybe it's time to choose a different term.
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God Bless and thank you for your service
 
I’ll allow that Americana may be the best American music that isn’t made by African Americans or American Jews, provided that America includes bluegrass.
 
Americana seems to be the 'you don't quite fit' category for a lot of artists.

Sarah Jarosz - Maybe closer to folk...but....
Jason Isbell - Is he rock? yes.... Is he Country? More so than most country artists today...I'd put him in Americana
Molly Tuttle - Definitely bluegrass, but she has won an Americana Music award.
Emmylou Harris - As much she you can fit her anywhere Americana will do.
Robert Plant - His newer music falls into that category.
 
Denverdave said:
Americana seems to be the 'you don't quite fit' category for a lot of artists.
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It's not a name for the sound, it's a name for the audience, as noted by Peen. People who want new music, but no actual new content--just the same few flavors endlessly combined in new iterations. Like Qdoba.
 
What about MURRICANA , y’all?!?

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It has been fun and interesting observing the rise of Americana as an acceptable genre over the decades on 2 local radio stations over the decades. KFAT in Gilroy and KPIG in Freedom Ca. It's been pretty well documented.

https://site.kpig.com/featured/kpig-a-brief-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameri...mericana music,country music into their songs.

and check out Robert Earl Keens Americana Podcast, especially the Rob Bleetsteen (Jan 25 2022 episode) for insight from someone who was there for most everything
 
335clone said:
It has been fun and interesting observing the rise of Americana as an acceptable genre over the decades on 2 local radio stations over the decades. KFAT in Gilroy and KPIG in Freedom Ca. It's been pretty well documented.

https://site.kpig.com/featured/kpig-a-brief-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americana_(music)#:~:text=The origins of Americana music,country music into their songs.

and check out Robert Earl Keens Americana Podcast, especially the Rob Bleetsteen (Jan 25 2022 episode) for insight from someone who was there for most everything
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My dad used to listen to KFAT in the’70s.
 
rhino said:
I know lots of people that have an issue with that label. I don’t mind it. There are about as many definitions for Americana as there are for Rock.
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I guess, and I suppose it goes way beyond music. Interestingly, just this morning I was surfing around reading random essays/articles on the Lost Generation and how jazz (also a very vague term) with its associated manners, lingo and fashion came to Europe and remained the default style/mainstream point of sonic reference well into the late 1960s.

It's fun when you watch older European light comedies and notice how they depict young people having a go at taking to this whole thing from over there, often rather presumptuously and awkwardly.
 
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