Name: This Is Americana
Brand: Americana Music Association
SKU: 612375
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This Is Americana

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Album: This Is Americana
#	Song Title	Time
1)	That's What I Get - BR5-49
2)	Wishbones - Slaid Cleaves
3)	I'm So Ashamed - Ray Price/Willie Nelson
4)	Ain't Looking Closely - Tift Merritt
5)	Gold Watch & Chain - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Kris Kristofferson
6)	Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss/Union Station (live)
7)	Life in the Country - Danny Barnes
8)	All the Right Reasons - The Jayhawks
9)	Stupid - Anne McCue
10)	Wait a Minute - The Notorious Cherry Bombs
11)	September When It Comes - Johnny Cash/Rosanne Cash
12)	If I Die - Fairfax
13)	Doesn't Have to Be This Way - Jay Farrar
14)	Wild Geese Cry - Ralph Stanley
15)	Trashcan Tomcat - Jim Lauderdale
16)	Telephone - Shelby Lynne
17)	Broke Down and Lonesome - King Wilkie
18)	Bible Song - Lori McKenna
19)	Little Red Rivi Airhead - Junior Brown
20)	Ventura - Lucinda Williams
21)	Amen - Arthur Godfrey

Album: This Is Americana
#	Song Title	Time
1)	That's What I Get - BR5-49
2)	Wishbones - Slaid Cleaves
3)	I'm So Ashamed - Ray Price/Willie Nelson
4)	Ain't Looking Closely - Tift Merritt
5)	Gold Watch & Chain - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Kris Kristofferson
6)	Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss/Union Station (live)
7)	Life in the Country - Danny Barnes
8)	All the Right Reasons - The Jayhawks
9)	Stupid - Anne McCue
10)	Wait a Minute - The Notorious Cherry Bombs
11)	September When It Comes - Johnny Cash/Rosanne Cash
12)	If I Die - Fairfax
13)	Doesn't Have to Be This Way - Jay Farrar
14)	Wild Geese Cry - Ralph Stanley
15)	Trashcan Tomcat - Jim Lauderdale
16)	Telephone - Shelby Lynne
17)	Broke Down and Lonesome - King Wilkie
18)	Bible Song - Lori McKenna
19)	Little Red Rivi Airhead - Junior Brown
20)	Ventura - Lucinda Williams
21)	Amen - Arthur Godfrey

Performer Notes

Performers include: Alison Krauss & Union Station, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Lucinda Williams, The Jayhawks, Rosanne & Johnny Cash, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kris Kristofferson, Ralph Stanley.
Personnel: Junior Brown (vocals, guitar, steel guitar); Jeremy Stephens (vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle); Jay Farrar (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Chuck Mead, Chris Scruggs, Danny Barnes, John McDonald , Jim Lauderdale, Anne McCue, Willie Nelson, Arthur Godfrey, Nick Pagliari (vocals, guitar); Gary Louris (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, background vocals); Tim O'Reagan (vocals, acoustic guitar, drums); Slaid Cleaves (vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion); Jeff Hanna, Kris Kristofferson, Lori McKenna (vocals, acoustic guitar); Alison Krauss (vocals, fiddle); Tift Merritt (vocals, Wurlitzer organ); Jimmy Ibbotson (vocals, electric bass); Chris Stills, Matthew Sweet, Ralph Stanley, Ray Price, Buddy Miller (vocals); Ron Block (tenor, banjo); Dan Tyminski (baritone, guitar); Brandon Butler (guitar, lap steel guitar, maracas); Darrell Scott, Ted Pitney, Gabe Rhodes, James Alan Shelton, Neal Casal, Ralph Stanley II (guitar); Gurf Morlix, Lucinda Williams (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); John McEuen (acoustic guitar, banjo); Ethan Johns (acoustic guitar); Doug Pettibone (electric guitar, mandolin); Duke Levine, Joe Winkle, Jason Sinay (electric guitar); Kevin Barry (lap steel guitar, mandolin); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Dirk Powell, Abe Spear , Steve Sparkman (banjo); Don Herron (mandolin, fiddle); Regina Burgess, John Rigsby, Tim O'Brien (mandolin); Darol Anger (violin); Nick Reeb, James Price, Eleanor Whitmore, Bobby Flores (fiddle); Brian Standefer (cello); Jimmie Fadden (harmonica, drums); Bob Carpenter (accordion, background vocals); Dale Ockerman (piano); Jim Christie (Wurlitzer organ, drums); Patrick Warren (chamberlin); Derrick DeBorja (keyboards); Barry Bales (acoustic bass); Geoff Firebaugh (electric bass); Don Heffington (drums, congas, tambourine); Dennis Harris , Dave Bryson (drums, percussion); Hawk Shaw Wilson, Freddy Calderone, Lorne Entress, Rick Richards, David Raven, Jim Norris (drums); Peter Amaral (snare drum, cymbals); George Drakoulias (sleigh bell); Eliza Gilkyson (background vocals).
The title of this 21-song budget sampler, This Is Americana, is the implied answer to an implied question, "What is Americana?" Well, listening to this CD probably won't clear the matter up, although you may walk away saying, OK, I know it when I hear it. Technically, Americana is anything having to do with the U.S., its people, and its history, which means inner-city rap rhymes are as much Americana as a scruffy No Depression band doing a Buck Owens cover. In this case of this sampler, however, Americana is a marketing strategy. Released by the Americana Music Association (with help from Ryko Records), its intent is to promote artists who don't fit neatly into any current country, pop, rock, or hip-hop radio play formats. That still leaves a lot of stuff unaccounted for, but for the purposes of this AMA outfit, Americana is a little bit country and a little bit rock and a little bit pop, and if you want to throw bluegrass and folk in there, that's fine, but please, no blues or jazz. One begins to have doubts that this Americanastuff is really a genre at all. All that said, there are some wonderful tracks here, including BR5-49's infectious opener, "That's What I Get," a perfectly charming take on the Carter Family's "Gold Watch & Chain" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Kris Kristofferson, Danny Barnes' irreverent and kinetic "Life in the Country," and Junior Brown's unique brand of hot rod honky tonk on "Little Red Rivi Airhead." Whether all of this really and truly adds up to a distinct genre or not could be endlessly debated, but with tracks like "September When It Comes," a duet by Rosanne Cash and Johnny Cash, such discussions are moot. Here listeners get a father and daughter singing a great song in an intimate setting like their lives depended on it. ~ Steve Leggett