Thanks for your opinion. Helps to clear the fog around the term americana.
I have fed the AI translater with more parts of the German newspaper article (2017) from above. Also interesting for me to read a perspective from my country.
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While country music is increasingly turning to pop and rock, traditional artists are finding their musical home in the still young genre of Americana. This rustic style is also becoming increasingly popular in Germany.
The extent to which today's country music has moved away from its traditional terrain is shown by the fact that, in Hilly's opinion, even genre pioneers such as Johnny Cash and Hank Williams would be typical Americana artists today.The cultural refuge for homeless roots musicians has now become a commercially attractive style. In October 2016, four Americana albums landed in the top 10 of the American Billboard charts: Bon Iver's “22, A Million”, Bob Weir's “Blue Mountain”, Van Morrison's “Keep Me Singing” and “American Band” by the Drive-By Truckers.
Ironically, this was the first time that the genre based on non-commercial criteria topped the sales list. For Jed Hilly “a milestone”. It proves that there is a large market for high-quality music and that artistic credibility pays off in the long term. Also in hard cash.
The Avett Brothers, who also have a large fan base in Germany, are unlikely to disagree. After all, each of their last three albums reached the top 5 of the American charts. And their last album, “True Sadness”, which was produced by Johnny Cash producer Rick Rubin in 2016, is considered the most successful Americana album of the past year. Singer Scott Avett can live with the label Americana: “I like it. It's elastic and very inclusive. But ultimately it seems to be another word for folk or country music. For acoustic music that is very connected to the working class.”
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