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.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Old Crow Medicine Show	Wagon Wheel	O.C.M.S.
2	Bob Dylan	Hard Times	Good As I Been To You
3	Keb' Mo'	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute
4	Sheryl Crow	No Depression In Heaven	The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
5	Rosanne Cash	Motherless Children	The List
6	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
7	Buddy Miller & Julie Miller	Forever Has Come To An End	Buddy & Julie Miller
8	Lyle Lovett	If I Had a Boat	Anthology, Vol. 1: Cowboy Man
9	Guy Clark	Fort Worth Blues	Cold Dog Soup
10	Lucinda Williams	Lake Charles	Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
11	The Texas Tornados	The Gardens	4 Aces
12	Buddy Miller	That's How I Got To Memphis	Your Love And Other Lies
13	The Flatlanders	Dallas	More a Legend Than a Band
14	Joe Ely	If You Were A Bluebird	Joe Ely
15	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Killing The Blues	Raising Sand
16	Alison Krauss & Union Station	The Lucky One	New Favorite
17	Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris	All The Roadrunning	All The Roadrunning
18	Steve Earle	Copperhead Road	Copperhead Road
19	Blaze Foley	Clay Pigeons	Wanted More Dead Than Alive
20	Justin Townes Earle	Harlem River Blues	Harlem River Blues [Explicit]
21	Gillian Welch	Red Clay Halo	Time (The Revelator)
22	Gillian Welch	Caleb Meyer	Hell Among the Yearlings
23	Van Morrison	Till I Gain Control Again	Pay The Devil
24	First Aid Kit	Emmylou	The Lion's Roar (Bonus Track Version)
25	John Hiatt	Drive South	Slow Turning