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United States of Americana

Annual Holdiay Show

An Americana Christmas, released October 14, 2014, is a 16-track album featuring holiday songs by artists including Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, The Band, John Prine, Dwight Yoakam, Valerie June, Nikki Lane, Robert Ellis, Luther Dickinson and the Old 97’s.
An Americana Christmas, released October 14, 2014, is a 16-track album featuring holiday songs by artists including Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, The Band, John Prine, Dwight Yoakam, Valerie June, Nikki Lane, Robert Ellis, Luther Dickinson and the Old 97’s.New West Records
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by Bill DeVille

December 22, 2024

It’s the Annual Holiday Show on this weeks United States of Americana! you’ll hear seasonal favorites from your favorite Americana artists new and old. We’ll check a few that we just got in this season from artists like The Milk Carton Kids, locals The Belfast Cowboys, & Ana Egge. Plus, classics from Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, John Prine and Nick Lowe!

Program Playlist, hour 1

Program Playlist, hour2

Americana Gig List 

2024

Trailer Trash’s “Trashy Lil X-Mas - 12/22 - Turf Club

Honeydogs - 12/26 -Turf Club

Barbara Cohen and Little Lizard feat Adam & Ava Levy - 12/28 - Hook and Ladder 

2025 

Jake LaBotz Trio - 1/16 also 1/23 & 1/30 - Icehouse 

Lissie’s Midwinter Residency - Sat, Sun 1/18 & 1/19 & Sat, Sun 1/25 & 1/26 - The Parkway

Urban Hillbilly Quartet: 30th Anniversary Shows - Sat 1/25 & Sun 1/26 -  Celtic Junction

Dylan LeBlanc & David Ramirez - Tues 1/28 - Parkway Theatre

Leftover Salmon - 1/29 - Hopkin Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN

John Louis & Kelley Smith -1/31- Hook and Ladder

Chastity Brown -  Fri 1/31 & Sat 2/1 - Dakota

Big Sandy & His Fly-rite Boys - 2/1 - Uptown VFW

Jeremie Albino - 2/1 - Turf Club

Folsom Prison Experience feat Church of Cash - 2/1 - Ames Center, Burnsville 

Paul Cauthen - Tues 2/4 - Varsity Theatre

Charles Wesley Godwin - 2/15 - Uptown Theatre

Turn Turn Turn - Sat 2/15 - The Dakota

Muscadine Bloodline - 2/21 - First Avenue

Colter  Wall & Friends - 2/21 - Treasure Island Casino

Freedy Johnston w/Molly Maher - Sunday 3/2 - Parkway Theatre

Marcia Ball - 3/6 - Parkway Theatre

Morgan Wade - 3/7 - First Avenue 

The Steel Wheels - 3/11 - Parkway Theatre

The Teskey Brothers / Anna Graves - 3/16 - Uptown Theatre

Sunny Sweeney - 3/19 - Turf Club

Dead Man Winter - 3/20 - First Avenue

Martha Wainwright - 3/25 - Hook and Ladder

Tyler Childers - 4/9 - Target Center

Ben Kweller - 4/28 - Fine Line Phil Cook: Solo Piano Show - 4/30 Icehouse 

Allison Russell / Kara Jackson - 5/9 - First Avenue 

Larkin Poe - 5/16 - First Avenue

The Devil Makes Three - 5/17 - First Avenue 

Dwight Yoakam / The Mavericks / 49 Winchester - Sat 6/7 - Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center, Rochester 

Alison Krauss - 6/8 - Ledge Amphitheatre, Waite Park

Alison Krauss - 6/10 - Vetter Stone Amphitheatre 

Mekons - 7/9 - Fine Line

Residencies

Charlie Parr - Sunday’s in January - Turf Club 

The Cactus Blossoms - Monday’s in January - Turf Club

Roe Family Singers (early) Matt Arthur & Friends (late) - Mondays - 331 Bar

The Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs - Every other Thursday - Palmer’s Bar/ 

Mary Cutrufello Band - Tuesdays - White Squirrel Bar, St Paul (Early shows, 6pm)

St. Dominic's Trio - Tuesdays - Driftwood, Minneapolis