Americana?

Winny_Pooh

@Trude nice list, check this band out if you dont know them already

JohnS37

For me, Americana in music was defined by The Band, particularly the brown album and Northern Lights, Southern Cross.
Good luck with the book, sounds like quite a challenge.

Trude

Winny_Pooh said:

@Trude nice list, check this band out if you dont know them already

Yes! I've heard some of their stuff and really enjoyed it. Must have a proper run through the back catalogue. Thanks for the tip

dcg

Worried that Hank Williams isn't being discussed here...the single greatest aggregator of pre- and postwar American musics before Elvis, and a multi-million seller

koneguitarist

Music described as Americana on here, twenty years ago would have been country music.
now country music is so bad with pop and hip hop influences we needed a new name for real country music so we hijacked the term Americana. 

John Hiatt, Bruce Springsteen etc to me are progressions of what the Band started. 

Americana I feel is music that is between the lines of Blues,rock,country and folk with elements of all but being neither specific genre. 

Artists I love that does real country but are not on the major country radio are often lumped in as Americana. 

Listen to Tyler Childers speech. 

https://youtu.be/PIrMy3QeTu0

fields5069

For the rockier side, I would mention Green On Red / Chuck Prophet.

On the modern, folkier side, ranging from straight-ahead to a bit more quirky, I would mention Damien Jurado.