How a little hippie boy and his friends helped preserve and enhance Bob Wills’ legacy. .Asleep At Wheel have been keeping the western swing genre alive ever since a little Jewish hippie boy named Ray Benson […]
How a punk rocker can mellow with age while still remaining true to his original ideals. For music fans of a certain age, the fact that Jesse Malin is celebrating his 40th anniversary with the re-release […]
An early glimpse of Paradise on a 1920’s blues standard from Burbank, California. Leon Russell, as well as being one of the founding fathers of what came to be called americana, was also a major innovator […]
Where americana came from, where it is and where it is possibly going. One of the big questions that is frequently asked around AUK Towers is what is Americana? While the question generates plenty of debate, […]
Muscle Shoals influenced country soul from Detroit. It is hard for aspiring musicians to get any career traction, even when they have managed to write enough songs for an album, and then manage to independently record […]
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