Looking back over the past fifty-or-so years, we find a large gathering assembled under a large, all-inclusive tent, called Americana. There’s hardly a definition that’s been assigned and it’s hardly what we’d term ‘a genre’. It is, rather, a mood of the music and a narrative of the storytelling defines it. Like the dozens of genres that line it’s walls, we’ve come to know what we’re listening to: blues, gospel, folk and tradition, jazz, and everything in between. This week we’ll be stepping into that tent to congregate and celebrate that ‘sound we know’ called Americana. The digital bins will take us only so far back, celebrating the music of Bob Dylan, Buddy Miller, Gillian Welch, Joe Ely, Old Crow Medicine Show and a couple dozen others. Just what’s needed and built on playlists worthy of the very best of the Americana Hours broadcast each morning here on KOWS Community Radio.
| No. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Old Crow Medicine Show | Wagon Wheel | O.C.M.S. |  |
| 3 | Bob Dylan | Hard Times | Good As I Been To You | |
| 4 | Keb' Mo' | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute | |
| 5 | Sheryl Crow | No Depression In Heaven | The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family | |
| 6 | Rosanne Cash | Motherless Children | The List | |
| 7 | Ray Wylie Hubbard | Tell The Devil I'm Gettin' There As Fast As I Can | Tell The Devil I'm Getting There As Fast As I Can | |
| 8 | Buddy Miller & Julie Miller | Forever Has Come To An End | Buddy & Julie Miller | |
| 9 | Lyle Lovett | If I Had a Boat | Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man | |
| 10 | Guy Clark | Fort Worth Blues | Cold Dog Soup | |
| 11 | Lucinda Williams | Lake Charles | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road | |
| 12 | The Texas Tornados | The Gardens | 4 Aces | |
| 13 | Buddy Miller | That's How I Got To Memphis | Your Love And Other Lies | |
| 14 | The Flatlanders | Dallas | More a Legend Than a Band | |
| 15 | Joe Ely | If You Were A Bluebird | Joe Ely | |
| 16 | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss | Killing The Blues | Raising Sand | |
| 17 | Alison Krauss & Union Station | The Lucky One | New Favorite | |
| 18 | Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris | All The Roadrunning | All The Roadrunning | |
| 19 | Steve Earle | Copperhead Road | Copperhead Road | |
| 20 | Blaze Foley | Clay Pigeons | Wanted More Dead Than Alive | |
| 21 | Justin Townes Earle | Harlem River Blues | Harlem River Blues [Explicit] | |
| 22 | Gillian Welch | Red Clay Halo | Time (The Revelator) | |
| 23 | Gillian Welch | Caleb Meyer | Hell Among the Yearlings | |
| 24 | Van Morrison | Till I Gain Control Again | Pay The Devil | |
| 25 | First Aid Kit | Emmylou | The Lion's Roar (Bonus Track Version) | |
| 26 | John Hiatt | Drive South | Slow Turning | |