2020 has been … a year. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to navigate a new normal, an economic crisis piggybacking on the global health emergency. At the same time, we’re in the midst of a new civil rights era, a reckoning with systemic racism and an uprising against police violence. READ MORE…
Doris Day of Iowa’s Best Country KIX 101.1 recently spoke with Craig Gerdes about his new album, Tough As Nails, his weekly Facebook live performances, and his tight-knit community of fans.
“If you like the sounds of Waylon Jennings, Cody Jinks and Jamey Johnson,” Doris says, “check out Craig’s tunes!”
You can listen to the full radio interview here…
Listen to this week’s Captain Americana Spotify playlist featuring:
Tender Creature – The Quietest Car
E.Z. Shakes – The Rileys
Joe Stamm – Bottle You Up
Orville Peck – Kids
Kevin Morby – Campfire
Radiator King – No Home
Colter Wall – Western Swing & Waltzes
Laura Rabell – Tequila Moon
Bern Kelly – Tina Walks Into the Hardware Store
Native Harrow – Carry On
Andrew Weiss and Friends – Before the World Broke
Great Peacock – Heavy Load
New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, Jimbo Mathus – Shake It and Break It
The Burning Hell – I Want to Drink in a Bar Filled with Aliens
Quintron, Miss Pussycat – Buc-Ee’s Got a Problem
Zephaniah OHora – Black & Blue
Colter Wall – Western Swing & Waltzes
Ferris & Sylvester – Knock You Down
Rhiannon Giddens – Don’t Call Me Names
Paul Cauthen – Bones
Carolina Story – Don’t Leave Me in the Morning
Roanoke – Meet Me in the Mountain
Smooth Hound Smith – Little Rock N Roll Clubs
Billy Strings – All the Luck in the World
Will Kimbrough – Trains
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Arkansas
Kamara Thomas – To a Soth Photo, 7 (Live)
Nell & Jim Band – Travelin’ the Road West
Emily Barker – The Woman Who Planted Trees
Hayes Carll – Bye Bye Baby (Alone Together Sessions)
Josiah Johnson – Solve Problems
The Joe Stamm Band makes countrified roots-rock with an emphasis on the roots, drawing on Stamm’s small-town upbringing in rural Illinois for a sound that blends heartland hooks with Nashville twang. It’s a sound that’s taken the songwriter from the college apartment where he strummed his first chords to venues beyond the Midwest, sharing shows with personal heroes like Kris Kristofferson and Chris Knight along the way. With his debut studio LP, The Good & The Crooked (& The High & The Horny), which is due out September 25th, Stamm begins building his own legacy, leading his band of road warriors through an album rooted in all-American storytelling and guitar-driven swagger.
Nat Puff, the mastermind behind Left at London, is frank. She’s frank about shitty people in her most popular acoustic ballad “I DONT TRUST U ANYMORE,” and she’s frank about her struggles in her newest single, “T-Shirt.” It comes from her forthcoming album Transgender Street Legend Vol. 2. READ MORE…
