You can call it what you want, but you won’t hear it on mainstream country radio. That’s the consensus of Americana’s top musicians and thinkers. And if you haven’t heard the term before, that’s kind ...

Thomas Waites is preparing to take the stage with his quartet, Heartbreak Waites, this weekend at the New Hope Winery.

The Americana Music Association has unveiled the nominees for its 25th annual awards ceremony. Here's the full list.

It was supposed to be one of the proudest moments of her career. Adia Victoria was performing with her band at the historic Newport Folk Festival last year when, shortly after their set, a prominent ...

Brandi Carlile, photo by Bill Kelly The Americana Music Association has unveiled the nominees for its 25th annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony.

Kevin Russell, founder of the Sonoma County Americana Music Festival, heeding the musical adage “It Don’t Mean of Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing,” has expanded his event to two nights this year, ...

Alabama artists had a big night at the Americana Music Honors & Awards, with the Red Clay Strays and Shelby Lynne among the top honorees. The awards are presented by the Americana Music Association ...

Brandi Carlile, Kashus Culpepper, S.G. Goodman, Jim Lauderdale, Kacey Musgraves, and Molly Tuttle helped the Americana Music Association reveal their nominees for the 24th annual Americana Honors & ...

No one ever knew what to call Mumford & Sons. The Guardian had already described them as “Coldplay reincarnated as hillbillies” by the time the group released their debut album in the U.S. in February ...

Every year at the Americana Honors & Awards program in Nashville, Jim Lauderdale will exclaim, as a running joke, “Now, that’s Americana!” — usually right after someone has given a rousing performance ...