This week on United States of Americana, we’ll be commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Farm Aid.

1995 was a pretty great year for alt-country and Americana, there were debuts from both Son Volt and Wilco. Emmylou Harris released her Wrecking Ball album & The Jayhawks dropped Tommorow the Green Grass, we’ll hear all of those artists and more, plus, we’ll check out a couple tunes from Margo Price’s just released new album! 

Kathleen Edwards has a new album out this week called “Billionaire,” which is co-produced by Jason Isbell. In hour 1 we’ll listen to the whole album! We’ll also hear a few songs for the State Fair!

Molly Tuttle has a new album out this week called “So Long Little Miss Sunshine,” it’s a different kind of album for Molly. It’s less bluegrass and shows more pop, rock and country influences. We’ll check out some of those new songs and Molly will chime in with some of her thoughts, as well. Plus, more tunes from Charley Crockett. He just released another new album and plays Surly Festival Field on Saturday!

This was a bustling installment of USofA! Lots going on! We checked out a few new tunes from Charley Crockett. His new album Dollar A Day was released on Friday. I also featured a handful of songs about Nashville, including Ketch Secor’s new song and we paid tribute to Flaco Jimenez. The legendary accordionist passed away just over a week ago.

In the last few weeks quite a few cool covers have come down the pike from artists like Kacey Musgraves and Chaparelle. It got me thinking, why not a full show  of covers, so that's what we’re gonna due a full show of covers (for or for worse!) 

This Time it’s a preview of some of the new music for the 2nd half of the year! We’ll feature Charley Crockett, that gent from TX has his 2nd album of the year coming soon and a show in a few weeks at Surly, we’ll also hear Hermanos Gutierrez, who enlisted Leon Bridges for their new song & Asleep at the Wheel has a new song about the Lone Star state.

On this episode I featured some “moon songs” for National Moon Day. On July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 carried the first humans to the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took a little stroll on that cheese filled land. I also featured a good dose of new Americana. And, Bob Dylan released “Like A Rolling Stone” this day in 1965, which is 60 years ago today! Reason enough to take it for a spin!

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!