This week’s Classic Americana pick highlights a track from Gillian Welch’s debut album in a year that has seen accolades for her latest effort, ‘Woodland,’ with musical partner David Rawlings. Figure: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings play a three-song set in The Current studio for Radio Heartland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_knMN2STAco

This week’s Classic Americana pick honors Tarheel Slim, a hard-working artist who recorded a definitive pair of rockabilly singles.

With their new album set to release October 10, the Minnesota band visited the Radio Heartland studio to share some new songs.

The music-filled evening also featured lifetime achievement honors and tributes to albums marking milestones.

This week’s Classic Americana feature highlights a prolific singer-songwriter who provides a song that’s perfect for the end of summer.

The Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Va., features mostly amateur musicians playing Bluegrass and Old Time music. At age 89, it's the oldest continuous competition of its kind in the U.S.

This week’s Classic Americana pick honors a hitmaking singer who also became a champion for people with speech impairment: Mel Tillis.

For this week’s Classic Americana pick, we spotlight an artist known as a godfather of Americana: Rodney Crowell. He’s an artist who has written many songs for other artists, and he also has enjoyed success as a singer-songwriter under his own name.

The mandolin virtuoso captivates with her deep storytelling and incredibly fast fingerpicking.

For this week’s Classic Americana pick, we celebrate Carly Simon, one of the most prolific and dominant singer-songwriters of the late 20th century, whose career continues to this day.