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WATCH: The Best Americana Music Videos

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 05.25.2012

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John Mayer fell off the grid for a few years, but after an enlightening road trip through the heart of America -- where he picked up a rather large so...

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Vote: Which US Destination Is The Ultimate Summer Vacation Spot?

Annemarie Dooling | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Tourism, Road Trips, Americana, US Destinations, National Travel and Tourism Week, Travel, Destinations, American Tourists, Usta Challenge, Summer Vacation, Travel News

Last year you told us which worldly destination make up your bucket list, this year we're staying state side with an homage to all things Americana. S...

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WrestleMania Proves to Be Great Modern Americana

Steven Kurlander | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: John Cena, The Rock, Americana, Wwe, Wrestlemania, Sun Life Stadium, Wwe Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania Miami, Miami News
Steven Kurlander

I was not thrilled at all about shleping an hour down and back on a Sunday night to watch WrestleMania. But my cynicism was misplaced -- it turns out that the WWE presents an amazing show.

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What Could Be Coming To ABC This Fall

Garrett Greer | Posted 05.26.2012

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Garrett Greer

ABC's slate tends to typically skew towards soaps or family programming; but this year, it looks as though they want to expand into the kind of show that might be at home on a more action-oriented network like Fox.

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John Barrowman's Next TV Role: It Isn't 'Torchwood'!

Posted 03.07.2012

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John Barrowman has joined the cast of "Gilded Lilys." What does this mean for "Torchwood"? According to TV Guide, Barrowman will play Julius Ashfor...

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African American String Band Plucks Joy From Sorrowful Era

Marty Lipp | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Black History, Banjo, Fiddle, Americana, Old-Time Music, Bluegrass, Black History Month, Video, Arts News
Marty Lipp

At a recent show, guitarist Hubby Jenkins joked that a white person playing banjo in the mid-1800s was like "Vanilla Ice rapping in the 1980s."

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Look Who's Playing TV's Latest President

Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Everybody Loves Raymond, Anthony Lapaglia, Once Upon a Time, Natalie Mendoza, Megan Furguson, Bill Pullman, Americana, Darius Campbell, Chaske Spencer, Ken Olin, Counter Culture, The Frontier, Boardwalk Empire, Christopher Egan, Movie President, Josh Gad, TV Canada, Brittany Snow, The Book of Mormon, Video, 1600 Penn, Independence Day, Ethan Embry, Tv President, Beauty and the Beast, Doris Roberts, Pop Idol, Twilight, Abc, Emilie De Ravin, Nbc, TV News

Cue "Hail to the Chief" because TV has found its president. Bill Pullman, who famously took on the role of head of state in the 1996 blockbuster "I...

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Since '45 - Extended Film Project

Michael Korolenko | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Boston University, Video, American Culture, Since '45, American History, Americana, Bellevue College, Culture News
Michael Korolenko

"Since '45" presented a personal retrospective record of the years 1945 through 1979 of American cultural history and its relationship with modern media -- how it reports, portrays, impacts, and, in some cases, influences events.

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Rosson Crow's American Dream Or Americana Nightmare

Posted 02.21.2012

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Rosson Crow's new exhibition "BALLYHOO HULLABALOO HABOOB" explores the collective national identity and the ways in which America is experienced, reme...

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Child Preachers! Snake Handling! Patriotism! Vaudeville!

Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Child Preachers, Snake Handling, Video, Pop Culture Films, Americana, 20th Century America, Spectacle Theater, Propaganda, Russell Scholl, Arts News

With snake handling, child preachers and wartime propaganda, America Loves You is sure to be a delightfully curious program. Russell Scholl's selectio...

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The 15 Most Creative States

Patrick Hickman Robertson | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Thomas Edison, Inventions, Audiobooks, Bras, Americana, Benjamin Franklin, Beauty Pageants, Books News
Patrick Hickman Robertson

The United States is the most innovative nation on earth, with over 42 per cent (by my estimate) of all significant "firsts" of the modern era, from integrated circuits in silicon chips to condoms.

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Songs for the New Depression: Americana Icon Gillian Welch Storms Charts, Brings Stark Songs to DC

Art Levine | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Npr, Americana, Billboard, Gillian Welch, Folk, Debt Deal, Strathmore, Entertainment News
Art Levine

With the economy teetering on collapse with the new debt deal, music fans can prepare for the mournful times ahead by listening to the sad, evocative songs of Gillian Welch, whose sound is steeped in Depression-era bluegrass but updated for today's hard times.

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Lucinda Williams Brings Blues, Heartache and Protest to Washington

Art Levine | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Americana, Wolf Trap, Music, Entertainment, Lucinda Williams, Blues, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Art Levine

At Lucinda Williams' Washington show, it was a mad love-fest between audience and performer that I've rarely seen outside of a Bruce Springsteen concert.

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Neon Americana Based On 7 Deadly Sins

Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Religion, Art, Melrose Place, Sins, Los Angeles-California, Americana, Seven Mortal Sins, Leadapron, Neon Art, Amanda Eliasch, Christianity, Los Angeles, Neon, Arts News

Artist and fashion editor Amanda Eliasch's neon signs, which are inspired by the seven deadly sins, are a tongue-in-cheek look at Hollywood culture. T...

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Faces of Telluride, Part 3: Nora Jane Struthers, Fresh Face

Michael Bialas | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Americana, Robert Plant and Band of Joy, Nashville, Mumford and Sons, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Bluegrass, Nora Jane Struthers, Telluride, Cd, Colorado, Bearfoot, Bootleggers, Entertainment News
Michael Bialas

Along with her band the Bootleggers, Nora Jane Struthers has followed the formidable footsteps of bands such as the Dixie Chicks and Nickel Creek by winning the prestigious Telluride band contest.

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All That Jarosz

Daniel Menaker | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Concerts, Music, A Prairie Home Companion, Lower East Side, Americana, Sarah Jarosz, Entertainment News
Daniel Menaker

Sarah Jarosz, a prodigy in the kind of music loosely called Americana, just last week released a new CD, Follow Me Down. She was in New York for three separate performances, the first at the Living Room. Overflow crowd.

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Bipolar Americana: An Interview With Artist Grant Barnhart

Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Clowns, Americana, Football, B/D Interviews, Western, Rodeo, Painting, Cowboy, Ed Rusha, Interview, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Beautiful Decay, Gerhard Richter, Beautiful/Decay, Grant Barnhart, Arts News

Via Beautiful/Decay: "Guitar Backstabs" The Midwest, motorcycles, cowboy boots, blue jeans, football—imagery associated with classi...

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Audio Walking Tours With Contemporary Literature As Your Guide

fsgworkinprogress.com | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: The Hours, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Cunningham, Americana, Paul Auster, Freedom, Electric Literature, Audio Walking Tour, Do Delillo, New York, Sunset Park, Books News

There’s a passage in Don DeLillo’s Americana where he describes walking down a busy sidewalk among a throng of New Yorkers. He captured this feeli...

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Ruscha's 'Psycho Spaghetti Westerns'

Evan J. Garza | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Natural Disaster, Demolition, Blue Collar Paintings, America, Americana, Ed Ruscha, Westerns, Los Angeles, Psycho Spaghetti Western, Standard Stations, Painting, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, Landscape, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News
Evan J. Garza

© Ed Ruscha. Psycho Spaghetti Western #9, 2010-2011 | Acrylic on canvas, 64 x 80 inches. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Tucked away in a busy corner of ...

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Tree Hugging Is Back in Style

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Brookline MA, Olmstead Elm, Americana, National Parks Service, American Icons, Landscapes, Treehugger, Frederick Law Olmsted, National Parks, Trees, Green News
Charles A. Birnbaum

The Olmsted Elm served as one of the most symbolic living witnesses to the birth of landscape architecture and city shaping in America.

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America's Best Roadside Attractions

Christina Ricchiuti | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Summer Travel, Tennessee Travel, America, South Carolina Travel, Americana, North Dakota Travel, Minnesota Travel, California Travel, Travel, Arizona Travel, Oklahoma Travel, Vermont Travel, Road Trips, US Destinations, Slidepollajax, Travel Ideas, Florida Travel, Road Trip, Roadside Attractions, Nebraska Travel, World's Largest, Travel Blogs, Holiday Travel, Spring Travel, Travel News
Christina Ricchiuti

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at11.12.37AM.jpgOften zany, sometimes corny, these monuments offer relief from the monotony of the open road.

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Home Belongs to the Traveler

Leah Mayor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Americana, Chicken Dinner, Heritage, Tradition, Hometown, Travel, Home, Culture, Crane Broiler Festival, Slow Travel, Roots, Crane Missouri, Ecotravel, Tourism, Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Travel, Travel News
Leah Mayor

It is in community gatherings and traditions that I look to understand how we might be better at bringing communities together -- not just as part of a distant past, but in order to forge a new kind of future.

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CDs Of The Week: Ladysmith Black Mambazo and David Wax Museum

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Avett Brothers, Americana, Pop Music, World Music, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mumford & Sons, David Wax Museum, CD of the Week, Bob Dylan, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Album sales may be slower than ever, but there's more great music out there than ever before -- and you can check it out more easily than ever. So eve...

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City and Country

Daniel Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City, Country Music, Bluegrass, Grascals, Roots Music, Americana, Country Music Awards, O Brother Where Art Thou, True Grit Soundtrack, Americana Music, Entertainment News
Daniel Menaker

There's no real culture of Americana in New York as there used to be in the 40's, 50's and 60's when Greenwich Village played host from Seeger to Dylan to Baez to Ochs. For a nostalgist like me, that's a shame.

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Carrie Rodriguez Reveals Her Love Connection With Our Country

Michael Bialas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Americana, Romantica, Emmylou Harris, Alejandro Escovedo, Ben Kyle, Gram Parsons, Calexico, Cd, Austin, Carrie Rodriguez, Duet, Lucinda Williams, Ricky Fataar, The Rutles, Blues Traveler, Entertainment News
Michael Bialas

Carrie Rodriguez was cracking up at the very idea, realizing how preposterous this pairing on her most recent album might seem to a perfect stranger.

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