The 25 Best Americana Albums of 2020
In 2020, Americana artists empathetically dealt with the things that bind us together and keep us apart. The albums on this list encourage hope for the future based on a belief in the human spirit.
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The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 80-61
In this next segment of PopMatters' look back on the music of the 2000s, we examine works by British electronic pioneers, Americana legends, and Armenian metal provocateurs.
Steve Earle Finds Common Ground With ‘Ghosts of West Virginia’
On Ghosts of West Virginia, Steve Earle chronicles the lives, hopes, dreams, and regrets of families who've lived for generations in coal country with a masterful song cycle that's long on empathy and short on judgment.
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Say It Loud! 100 Great Protest Songs: Part 4 – Dead Kennedys to Steve Earle
PopMatters has scoured the musical spectrum for the best examples of the protest song form, including anthems of great popularity and obscurity alike. Stay tuned all week as we unveil the top 100.
An Alternative Christmas Playlist for the Coming Ice Age
If the idea is that earth, water, fire, air and space constitute the core elements of life, then these five songs might seem as their equivalents to surviving the complications that come from embracing the good and enduring the ugly of the Christmas season.
A Look Back but a Step Forward: An Interview with Steve Earle
Steve Earle has blazed his own trails but now, at 62, he reflects on fallen heroes, chance encounters, and how he'll always be a political rabble-rouser.
Steve Earle: So You Want to Be an Outlaw
Steve Earle reaffirms his country outlaw status with the appropriately titled, outlaw country primer So You Want to Be an Outlaw.
Steve Earle and the Dukes: Terraplane
Terraplane pays homage to the Texas blues, with mixed results.
Steve Earle and the Dukes – “You’re The Best Lover That I Ever Had” (video)
Americana hero Steve Earle returns with Terraplane releasing via New West on 17 February.
When the Man in Black Went to Bat for Native America
A recasting of Johnny Cash's most controversial album, Bitter Tears, raises questions about the inclusiveness of American music.