Also ranks #1 on The Best Folk Artists on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, Ranked Also ranks #10 on The Best Americana Bands & Artists of All Time Dig Deeper Country Singers Who Have Had Cancer 15 Neil Young 366 votes Neil Young is an enigmatic figure in the world of folk music, continually...
Also ranks #4 on The 125+ Best Classic Country Artists Of All Time, Ranked Dig Deeper Country Singers Who Were in the Military 5 Waylon Jennings 3,954 votes As one of the pioneers of the outlaw country movement, this artist's rebellious spirit and gritty songwriting helped to redefine the...
Solomon Burke, who scored only a handful of Top 10 R&B hits in the Sixties but enjoyed 21st-century acclaim as an Americana star, liked to perform what he called sermonettes — singing of heartache like he was in church, then speaking/preaching a gospel of the power of love, then back...
The director gathered artists — on camera and on the set — who became his go-to company and underlined his wholly original sensibility. Read Variety‘s original review of “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown“. Stream the film on Prime Video. 97 Alien (1979) ...
Hugely influential for fellow artists including Pink Floyd, George Harrison and Eric Clapton: a great record. Key Track: The Weight Image Credit: Capitol Records 646 582 40. Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak $7.99Buy now from Amazon Year: 1976 The band's breakthrough album, Jailbreak, came after ...
When Carole King’s Tapestry came out in 1971, listeners were assuredly familiar with several of the songs, which had already been made into hits by artists like Aretha Franklin and the Shirelles. But the cover art made it clear that what King was doing here with her material was different...
dense electronic touches prove an essential part of the picture, as the songs (largely written with the late and brilliant Jay Bennett) wrap up a fractured America headed to an uncertain future. The future of musicalAmericanaproved brighter, making this one of the greatest rock albums ever made...
Photo : ©United Artists/Courtesy Everett Collection 32. ‘Hair’ (Miloš Forman, 1979) One of the most provocative and political musicals to ever make it on Broadway, the original ‘Hair’ premiered in 1968 as a sign of a changing America. Telling the story of a tribe of hippies livi...
The last few years or so have seen rise to the era of scammer documentaries and shows based on con artists-turned-celebrities. One of Netflix's most successful documentaries on the topic is The Tinder Swindler, which opened eyes about how wild the art of catfishing can get. While some li...
This is a tour de force of violence as five young people leave the safety of the world behind and journey into dusty Americana. What they find in one house when they innocently enter looking for gas is such death and depravity that the movie is still, decades on, a disturbing endurance ...