Suggestions
Suggestions
Country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues all feed into Americana, a present-day music whose roots sound belongs to none of those styles in pure form. Acoustic instruments often sit at its centre, and many acts play it with an electric band. Artists including Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Jason Isbell and the Avett Brothers draw on country chord progressions, song topics and instruments such as banjo, fiddle and pedal steel, and none of them fits the country category or current country radio neatly. Lucinda Williams remembers the name first covering anti-commercial songs that fell through the cracks and got little airplay.
Former Funeral Chic frontman Ryan Lockhart traded hardcore screams for Americana twang. Adam Hooks, who also fronts punk band Russian Girlfriends, drops the tempo of Banner Pilot’s “Skeleton Key” and wraps it in chorus-heavy guitars with his Albuquerque band Hooks & The Huckleberries, and Flatfoot 56’s Tobin Bawinkel started 6’10 in 2013 for folk and Americana songs that did not suit his main band. London four-piece Burntwood mix Americana with post-rock and alternative rock. San Diego’s The Petty Saints start many songs as folk songs and finish them as blue-collar Americana rock’n’roll.