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The song is a salute to small-town America and a celebration of its values and camaraderie. Various observations – elderly men playing checkers, children playing hopscotch and teenagers going on a date at a local soda fountain – are observed first-person style from a traveling performer, whose vehicle had pulled off of a four-lane highway for a short break.
The origins of Americana music can be traced back to the early 20th century, when rural American musicians began incorporating elements of folk, blues, and country music into their songs. [4] Americana musicians often played acoustic instruments such as the guitar , banjo , fiddle , and upright bass , and their songs typically told stories ...
Americana received strongly polarized reviews from music critics. It holds an average score of 68 out of 100 at Metacritic, based on 31 reviews. [20] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune gave the album three-and-a-half out of four stars, writing that "Americana reveals the hard truth inside songs that have been taken for granted."
The band was founded in San Diego, California by brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmerman, [5] [6] In September 2010, their album Common Faults won the San Diego Music Awards's 'Best Pop Album' award. [7] Their songs "Bartholomew" and "All Saints Day" were used in 2011 TV advertisements for the video game Dark Souls. [8] "Bartholomew" was the ...
Largo is an Americana music project and album produced by Rick Chertoff and Rob Hyman and released by Polygram in 1998. [1] [2] [3] It was co-written by them with Eric Bazilian and David Forman. The title is taken from the second movement of Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony, and the project is considered "loosely inspired" by the symphony.
The film is titled after "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince", a 2019 song by Swift. The film has been described as an unvarnished and emotionally revealing look at Swift, during a metamorphic phase in her life, as she learns to accept her role as not only a singer-songwriter and entertainer, but as an influential woman "harnessing the full ...
The Civil Wars were nominated for a 2011 Country Music Association Award in the Vocal Duo of the Year category, [27] [28] and in the Duo/Group of the Year and Emerging Artist of the Year categories for the Americana Music Awards. [29] They received the Vanguard Award at the 49th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards, [30]
The band released their self-recorded and produced second album, Here We Rest, on April 12, 2011, on Lightning Rod Records. The song "Alabama Pines" was named Song of the Year at the 2012 Americana Music Awards. On March 13, 2017, Isbell announced a new album with the 400 Unit, The Nashville Sound, which released in June of that year. [49]