While groups have long been a pillar of country music, this rising crop operates outside the traditional genre lines.

Yet no matter how far or recent each album looked ... and a lot like Seventies rock (plus, The B-52’s!). Still, it’s the lyricism of country music, and its cousin Americana, that continues ...

The Band of Heathens is an Americana-leaning rock band who are in a league of their own. They came together for this collaborative album, bringing the best of both country and rock and roll to the ...

albums, including Kaitlin Butts' Oklahoma!-inspired concept LP, Shaboozey's Western hip-hop, and Zach Top's Nineties gold.

We’ve come to the end of another long workweek and, as usual, there’s a stack of new country and Americana ... of rock, folk, and country music and the same is true for their new album Signals.

By Ben Sisario Zach Bryan, the Oklahoma-raised singer-songwriter whose work fits somewhere on a continuum of country, rock and Americana folk, has logged his first No. 1 album and single with big ...

(Mae has an Americana and pop release, while Lea has a country album.) This isn't a novel feat ... former lead singer of Boston-based folk-rock duo the Dresden Dolls, raised nearly $1.2 million ...

Grace Potter took a break from her band, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, to record a solo album with producer T-Bone Burnett ...

Allison Russell cries before accepting her award at the 21st Annual Americana Honors & Awards ... oft-misunderstood genre that mixes country, gospel, rock, folk, roots and blues.

Bluegrass with fiddles, a rock band with a trombone player, legendary country music -- all ... of "Demons," from her just-released album "The Returner." Americana currently requires concepts ...

including Indie Store Album Sales (No. 2), Top Rock Albums (No. 7), Americana/Folk Albums (No. 12), Top Country Albums (a career-best No. 27) and Top Rock & Alternative Albums (No. 30).

27. Steve Earle, "Guitar Town" (1986) Country rock was evolving into roots rock and Americana when Steve Earle released his debut album in 1986. But a clear line can be traced to the music's ...