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The always impressive Blitzen Trapper unleashes an impressively artistic new video for “Black River Killer”.

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The Best Americana of 2011

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20 Dec 2011

If you ask a critic or music fan to define Americana, be prepared for an avalanche of diverse responses of opinion. Still, there remain some constant benchmarks, such as pedal steel, fiddle, acoustic guitars -- and good songwriting.

Stranger in a Stranger Land: An Interview with Blitzen Trapper

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Following the breakthrough of their last album, Eric Earley of Blitzen Trapper sits down to talk about the genesis of American Goldwing, revealing how some songs were written in mere minutes ...

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Portland alt-countryish rockers Blitzen Trapper take to the road with an accomplished sixth album steeped in a bygone America.

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