“Americana is a refuge,” said Seth Avett of the Avett Brothers, as the trio accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Americana Association. “It’s a community. … I was thinking about how it would ...

Americana music encompasses country, bluegrass, folk, and blues and has deep roots in Black musical traditions. As the sonic influences of southern Blacks gained international popularity in the early ...

The Americanamusic genre has a rich, storied history in the United States, with a mixture of incorporated sounds as diverse as the nation itself. Americana is commonly thought to only be based around ...