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NashvilleMusicGuide.com 2 NashvilleMusicGuide.com 1 Taking Bluegrass to New Contents Audiences 31 Tommy Womack Letter from the Editor Editor & CEO Randy Matthews [email protected] Settling in to Americana Americana was our special is- ber issue of Nashville Music Guide for our Nashville Past & sue for the month of Septem- Present Issue. We will have stories from numerous contributors Managing Editor Amanda Andrews 34 Dallas Moore ber. We would like to thank and supporters of The Guide that have seen it transition over the [email protected] Independent & Loving It Jed Hilly of AMA for helping past eighteen years, along with numerous other stories about Dove Awards us with this issue and all of the Nashville past & present in the music industry. I don’t want to Associate Editor Krys Midgett 36 others in the Americana genre give too much away, but it will be an issue you do not want to [email protected] Gospel HOF Induction that allowed us to interview miss. Accounts Rhonda Smith Ceremony their artists to make this issue [email protected] possible. We are very excited On another note, we would like to thank our former Director 29 to be covering the Americana of Sales & Marketing, Janell Webb, for all of her hard work Contributors Phil Sweetland, Preshias, Departments Festival and Conference this and efforts. We wish her the best in all of her future endeav- Rick Moore, Andrew Miller, Leslie Arm- month. Be looking for the ours. We would also like to thank Hank & Edna Beach for all stong, Brion Dixon, Jessica Northey, Features coverage of this event on our of their great Past & Present Personal Touch Stories. We greatly Bronson Herrmuth, Rick Amburgey, 2 Editor’s Letter Sheryl Craig, Nicole Valdivieso websiten (www.nashvillemusic- enjoyed their columns and know that you did too. 4 Americana 7 Writer’s Nights & guide.com) as well as in next Photography Bob Coan, Jerry Overcast, Open Mics month’s issue -- which is go- Moving forward we would like to announce the addition of That Which is Intrinsically Stacy Scruggs, Randi Radcliff Producer’s Spotlight ing to be Bluegrass! Randi Radcliff to the Nashville Music Guide staff. She is going American 10 to be working on our NMGRadio.com, 24/7 online radio sta- Founder Dan Wunsch Chris Stamey Dan Wunsch and Brad Fisch- tion, along with some great interns. There will be new program- 5 Indie Music Fest 17 NSAI er established the Nashville Music Guide out of a home office ming and some really great content up soon. So stayed tuned for HOW TO REACH NMG Spotlighting Performing Press releases, CD Reviews Lionel Richie back in 1995. That was eighteen years ago this month, and we updates as we move forward on our mission of helping publi- Artists and Songwriters are proud to say that we are still open for business and have cize independent artists. [email protected] 18 Inside Track on grown by leaps and bounds since its advent. 6 Clay McClinton Advertisement/Rates Music Row Big thanks to all of our staff, contributors and supporters for [email protected] Cruising the Americana I purchased the magazine from Dan about three years ago and what you do for the Nashville Music Guide. It is because of you Nashville Music Venues Way 20 started bringing a Nashville ‘oldie but goodie’ back to life that we have made it eighteen years and are still going. Event Submissions 22 NMG Sounding again. 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Americana-Flavored Radio Show Booming 28 Paul Thorn @NashMusicGuide Americana Roots Run Deep 29 The Trishas Bringing High Wide & Handsome 30 The Roys NashvilleMusicGuide.com 2 NashvilleMusicGuide.com 3 the Americana genre of music was defined by Merriam-Web- Americana ster. That Which Is Perhaps award-winning author and prominent Nashvillian Ann Patchett said it best. In 2007 in Intrinsically American The New York Times, Patchett Story By Andrew Miller wrote, “People who you would think are the very cornerstones More than 600 performing artists, songwriters, and industry will visit Nashville’s Music Row from Oct. 4-7 (Thursday eve - For the second month in a row, take greater pride in,” Hilly of country music — Willie Sunday) for the “Independent Music Fest”. Performers and songwriters will take the stage along Demonbreun and Division I felt like I’d been tasked with asks, “than the music that was Nelson and Johnny Cash — Streets from noon till midnight Friday thru Sunday at entertainment venues such as Red Rooster, Losers, Winners and the defining a genre of music that created somewhere between are now called Americana, and Music Row Best Western Lounge. would be, in fact, indefinable. Nashville, Memphis, New Or- in that case Americana is what For the last issue it was Red leans and Nashville? It is where we'd loved all along.” The Best Western also will host music industry information tables, networking areas, and training sessions from 11AM to Dirt country, and for this one the banjo, brought over by Af- 6 PM Friday-Sunday. Attendees can receive hands-on advice, critiques and training in the Music Specialty Info Areas on Americana, just in time for this rican slaves, met the fiddle, The artists that are being clas- topics such as Career Critique, Products Critique, Recording, Publishing, Plugging, Legal, Records, Duplication, Distribu- month’s Americana Music Fes- brought over by Scottish rebels. sified as Americana, they don’t tion, Radio, Video, Broadcasting, Shop, Management, Promotions, Publicity.Productions. Indie Connect and the Tennessee tival and Conference. And they met, here. They didn’t care what you call them. And Songwriters Association will also be on hand to answer your music biz questions. The education portion of the event is meet in Kentucky, they didn’t all of the artists’ individual ex- hosted by the Independent Music Association. Hoping for some direction on meet in Appalachia, they met planations of the genre vary AMA Exec. Director Jed Hilly the matter, I went to Jed Hilly, somewhere here in this triangle. wildly, with two notable ex- The annual “Indie Music Masquerade Gala” will feature costumed dancing from 7 p.m.-midnight on Oct. 6 (Saturday) in Executive Director of the Because one night, the slaves ceptions: every last one of them here and inspiration. I think that the Music Row Best Western Lounge. Songwriters can introduce their new songs by performing at two special “open mic” Americana Music Association, and the British and the French talked about the genre’s myriad Jane Doe in Bozeman, Mont. stages located between Demonbreun and Division streets. and he quickly set me straight: and the Spanish and the Ameri- influences and emphasis on mu- doesn’t really care what catego- can Indian, Scots, Irish — sev- sical and lyrical honesty. ry of music it is. She cares, in “The ‘Independent Music Fest’ is a wonderful networking mixer and career-building opportunity for artists and songwrit- “It’s simple,” he says. “Look it en different cultures decided to “I think people get confused her shuffle, about the band The ers at all levels,” said Cornelius “Popcorn” Robertson, founder and coordinator of the festival. “More than 100 community up in the dictionary.” stop fighting some night around about Americana, in part be- Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, industry/ volunteers will donate their time and resources to make this possible. Shows are open to the public.” 1800 and said, ‘Let’s play some cause of how it developed,” The Civil Wars and The Preser- I had no idea it would be so music.’ That’s a pretty f-----g Hilly says.