WilliamClub Host
He's is top 3, and this album is probably the best album to come out in this lane all decade
JanglesAdmin
Who are his contemporaries? Just from what you've shared, it feels like Noah Kahan is close-ish. Jason Isbell? Of those three, this feels like the most grounded/rooted in tradition to me.
WilliamClub Host
@Jangles yeah jason isbell, tyler childers, colder wall, zach bryan, sierra farrell, margo price, sturgill simpson, chris stapleton, cody jinx, even kasey musgraves would all be in the conversation, rely you've got to understand where the term americana came from, basically, it started as a way for record stores and record labels to market country Music artists that did not work in nashville and get played on country radio, there's a quote from tyler childers , when he won a best album at the americana music awards "as a country musician americana means a bunch of nothing and ignors the problems with country music today" or something like that? I don't remember it by heart.