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The Latest

in Americana Music

Each week new albums are released, concert tours announced and the recording industry finds ways to attract new audiences.

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Crossroads keeps across these developments with regular updates and added-value information. 

Americana Girl Standing in a Field

What Is
Americana Music?

Americana Music evolved in the 1990’s when the American radio and recording industry was seeking to bring together performers, professionals and fans under the one banner that could best promote roots music and distinguish it from mainstream country.

 

Americana Music was formally anointed in 1999 with the formation of the Americana Music Association (AMA), a non-for-profit organisation which has gone from strength to strength despite the on-going identity issues that persist within the genre.

American Man Driving

2026 Monthly
Crossroads Playlist

Every month Crossroads releases an exciting amalgamation of Americana Music. There will be a mix of new releases, discoveries and old favourites. The aim is to fairly represent in 20 tracks the various strands that constitute the genre.

Top 100 Great 
Americana Songs

1.

Copperhead Road

Steve Earle 1988
(Written by Steve Earle) 

2.

Pancho and Lefty

Emmylou Harris 1977
(Written by Townes Van Zandt)

3.

The Night they Drove
Old Dixie Down 

The Band 1968
(Written by Robbie Robinson)

4.

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 

Lucinda Williams 1998

(Written by Lucinda Williams)

Top 30 Great 
Americana Albums

20 Great Willie Nelson  Songs

To mark Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday on April 29, 2023, Crossroads has selected 20 Great Willie Nelson Songs, spanning a recording career of more than 60  years.

Flipped into the wind / Like the ashes of her cigarette

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Buddy Mondlock – Coming Down in the Rain

30 Great Americana
Live Music Albums

1.

Live in Dublin

Bruce Springsteen with
The Sessions Band
2007

2.

Ramble At The Ryman 

Levon Helm
2011

3.

Bob Dylan Live 1966 

“The Royal Albert Hall” Concert 
Bob Dylan
1998

4.

Rock of Ages 

The Band
1972

30 Great Bluegrass Songs

25 Great Americana Dylan Covers

It is generally considered in popular culture (a Google search) that only the Beatles have had more songs covered than Bob Dylan. And, as might be expected, social media is awash with lists of the best Dylan covers. To distinguish itself from the masses, Crossroads has selected 25 Great Americana Dylan Covers, choosing those artists who could genuinely be regarded as Americana artists – a very defining task in itself.

Celebrating
And Exploring Americana Music

Crossroads is where the various strands that constitute Americana Music collide on life’s Lost Highway as each search for the same direction home.


It is a congested intersection with an amalgam of styles – alt-country, bluegrass, folk, blues, rhythm and blues, country-rock – sitting under the umbrella of American roots music.

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