We made it to the halfway point of the year! A good time to look back at some of the best Americana music from 2025, so far…there’s been some good stuff, we’ll check out tunes from Charley Crockett major label debut, Jason Isbell’s first ever solo acoustic album, & Alison Krauss and Union Station’s 1st album in 14 years among others.

On this United States of Americana we celebrated Trampled By Turtles with a handful of live tunes! They perform on July 5th at Bayfront Park in Duluth. We also caught new songs from Joshua Ray Walker, The War and Treaty and Patty Griffin!

One true sign of summer music festivals is the Blue Ox Festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This time I’ll feature a handful of artist performing at the fest next weekend, including Margo Price, Orville Peck, Charlie Parr, Molly Tuttle and festival hosts Pert Near Sandstone! 

June is Pride Month! So, this time I featured artists that are part of the LGBTQIA+ community and a few pride anthems too!  We heard artists like Melissa Carper, Elton John, Vandoliers, Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls & more!

It’s June, the unofficial beginning of Summer. On this episode I featured some road songs to inspire your summer road trips. We’ll hear songs from Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan and more! I also debuted new songs from The Honeydogs and Rodney Crowell!

On this episode of United States of Americana I featured a bunch of artist performing in the Twin Cities & surrounding area this Summer! We’ll check out new songs from Charley Crockett, who performs at Surly Brewing Festival Field on August 23rd, Alison Krauss and Union Station at the Ledge Amphitheatre in Waite Park on June 6th, & a bunch more!

Gary Louris, has been making album for nearly 40 years with The Jayhawks. He’s also made a few albums of his own, including his latest Dark Country. Gary Louris dropped by a few weeks back to perform a couple of tunes and chat. That’s part of this show, plus the usual dose of new music!

It’s the Mothers Day installment of United States of Americana this time! I’ll feature of handful of songs for Mom on this week’s show song from artists like Justin Townes Earle, Lucinda Williams and Merle Haggard. I also featured the usual dose of new tunes, the Vintage Vinyl pick and the Americana Gig List!  

Johnny Blue Skies, you know him, he’s the artist formerly known as Sturgill Simpson. He has a couple of big shows at the Armory in Minneapolis this week. We’ll celebrate with some extra tracks. I interviewed Hunter Metts a couple weeks ago. He’ll tell us his story, which includes appearing on American Idol. It’s all in this episode of United States of Americana!

It’s the final Sunday of April. A good reason to celebrate MN Music Month with an all local United States of Americana. We’ll feature all local tunes, new and old, this time) We’ll hear new Americana tunes from artists like Molly Dean, LASKA, Sleeping Jesus & Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles.