On this United States of Americana, we remember Dolly. Dolly Parton died at age 80 last Tuesday. We will never forget her.

The Great Minnesota Get-Together is just a few days away, so we're going to preview some of the Americana artists performing at the Minnesota State Fair this year.

On this episode we featured artists performing at Outlaw Fest, which is set for this Wednesday at Mystic Lake Amphitheatre in Shakopee, MN. We’ll hear people like Willie Nelson, The Avett Brothers, Stephen Wilson JR., Sierra Hull and Lukas Nelson on United States of Americana.

The Band’s Robbie Robertson & Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead both passed away on August 9th. We’ll remember Robbie and Jerry with a few tunes on this week's show. USofA will also feature a new recording from the first ever recording from longtime friends Steve Earle and the East LA legends Los Lobos.

On this day in 1992, Uncle Tupelo released their acoustic classic, March 16-20, 1992. It was an album of mostly old school country music covers. The album was produced by REM’s Pet Buck. We’ll dig in a bit and feature several tunes from this classic album.

It seems like there has been a bunch of artists recently that have been influenced by 90’s Alt-Country sounds. Bands like Wednesday, M.J. Lenderman and Ratboys come to mind. We’ll check out some Alt-Country sounds, both new and old, on this United States of Americana.

With road-trip season in full swing, I thought it would be fun to hit the road with some “city songs’ on this USofA.

We're about halfway into 2026. There's been some great Americana sounds released so far this year. Maybe you're keeping a list. It seems like a good time to revisit some of the best stuff you've heard this year so far.

It’s the Pride edition of United States of Americana this time. This 3 hour cruise is full of artists with Pride and a few Pride anthems. We checked out songs from artists like Angel Olson, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Boy Golden, Sierra Ferrell, Brandi Carlile and others!

We featured some songs for Father’s Day on this USofA. We checked out music from artists like Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett and a Guy Clark classic. Plus, we featured a few for the first day of Summer.