The Band - "Up On Cripple Creek" (4:29)
Big Star - "The Ballad Of El Goodo" (4:19)
Steve Earle - "Copperhead Road" (4:31)
Lucinda Williams - "Can't Let Go" (3:28)
Gene Clark - "For A Spanish Guitar" (5:00)
Delta Spirit - "People, Turn Around" (4:58)
America - "Ventura Highway" (3:28)
Whitley - "Big Chris Sky Country" (4:40)
Alison Krauss - "Gentle On My Mind" (3:29)
John Mellencamp - "Small Town" (3:41)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - "Sin City" (4:09)
Poco - "Rose Of Cimarron" (6:43)
Band Of Horses - "Factory" (4:34)
Gram Parsons - "A Song For You" (4:57)
John Hiatt - "Georgia Rae" (4:25)
Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown" (3:32)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free Bird" (9:04)
The Allman Brothers Band - "Midnight Rider" (2:58)
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - "Lonesome LA Cowboy" (4:05)
John Prine - "Sam Stone" (4:14)
Bonnie Raitt - "Thing Called Love" (3:50)
Townes Van Zandt - "Pancho & Lefty" (3:40)
Jonathan Wilson - "Desert Raven" (7:51)
Review: Americana, also known as American roots music, is a mixture of genres that blend together into a distinctive roots-oriented sound, culminating in what might also be understood as 'all the microgenres that went into the melting-pot that was the USA before it had established any semblance of a national musical identity'. This compilation for MOV collects all of the musical ingredients that went into this melting pot: a foot of newt from John Mellencamp, an eye of bat from Towned Van Zandt, a tongue of dog from Gene Clark, and a final sprinkling of contemporary national identity from Band Of Horses. A nostalgic experience, full of reverence for days past (and present).
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