Americana
Americana is the melting pot of the American musical landscape. It’s a wide-reaching genre that stitches together elements of folk, country, blues, and rock and roll. At its heart, it is about heritage and storytelling, focusing on acoustic instruments and honest, roots-oriented songwriting. It’s music that feels like a dusty backroad or a front porch conversation—timeless, unpretentious, and deeply connected to the soil of the traditions that came before it.
- I Don't Wanna Grow Up Tom Waits - Bone Machine - 1992
- Home I'll Never Be Jack Keroac - Tom Waits - Orphans: Bastards - 2006
- Fish and Whistle John Prine - Bruised Orange - 1978
- First We Take Manhattan Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man - 1988
- Far From Any Road The Handsome Family - Singing Bones - 2003
- Dirt in the Ground Tom Waits - Bone Machine - 1992
- Comes a Time Neil Young - Comes a Time - 1978
- Closing Time Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate - 1971
- Chocolate Jesus Tom Waits - Mule Variations - 1999
- Breakfast in Hell Slaid Cleaves - Broke Down - 2000