This time, we'll hear the wonderfully quirky voice of Iris DeMent, who turns 64 on January 5. We'll also take a look back at 2024 one more time as I'll play some of the best of the rest from artists like Hayes and the Heathens, Jontavious Willis, and Australian Kasey Chambers. And we'll remember a few of the artists we lost in 2024.

Program Playlist, hour 1

Program Playlist, hour 2

Americana Gig List 

2025 

Farewell Milwaukee - 1/9 - Turf Club

Gasoline Lollipops - Sat. 1/11 - Hook and Ladder

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

Marshall Crenshaw, “40 + Years in ShowBiz” - Sun 3/23 - Parkway Theatre

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 - Sundays in January - Turf Club 

The Cactus Blossoms - Mondays 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