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.

This time I featured a handful of tunes from the twangy new album from and Julien Baker and Torres new album called Send A Prayer My Way. Plus, I had the usual dose of new music and the weekly vintage vinyl pick.

Yesterday was Record Store Day. We celebrated it on Sunday, as well. I dropped the needle on a few of my recent finds & featured a few songs about those vinyl platters with the hole in the middle! I also played a bunch of new music by artists like Olivia Wolf, Noeline Hofman, North Mississippi Allstars and Devil Makes Three.

Tyler Childers is at Target Center on Wednesday, so we featured a few Tyler tunes on this USofA, including one from his incredible “in-studio session!”  We will also remember Merle Haggard and Tammy Wynette on the anniversary of their deaths.

I featured music from the new album from Alison Krauss and Union Station, which dropped on Friday. Plus, I’ll give away a couple of pairs of tickets to their Ledge amphitheater show on June 8, we also caught a tune from La Lom, who are set to perform at the Fine Line on April 4th.