Your Front Row Seat To Americana Music
The Pew Playlist is now at full strength! That means there's 50 new and recent Americana songs ready for you. Going forward I'll rotate 5 off the list each week and add 5 new ones to keep it fresh. The playlist also continues to gain followers. If you like the list, please share it with... Continue Reading →
Ron Pope’s voice sinks into your soul, digging deep to set up camp as it attaches and winds itself around the heartstrings. Through his earlier works into his recent album Work and its companion EP Worktapes, he continues to be the torchbearer of the independent music scene as he vigilantly brings his sound to the... Continue Reading →
“I’ve always told stories,” says alt-country rocker Ron Pope, who is one of the best (and one of our favorite) tale spinners around these days. “I was in a car with my dad and one of his friends, and we were riding back from Yankee Stadium. We were telling a story back and forth about... Continue Reading →
“I had a teacher, she told my mother that she better find me a trade/because boys like me well, we all grow up to be long term guests of the state,” Ron Pope reveals to us in the title track from his upcoming album Work. From that inauspicious childhood memory, Pope was inspired to take... Continue Reading →
Ron Pope, our favorite braid-wearing wonder and Nashville-based purveyor of explosive Americana...explosicana (see what we did there?), has put his own unique spin on and unleashed an in-studio performance of Aretha Franklin's "Baby, I Love You," in celebration of her 75th birthday. While you're at it, get pumped for Pope's new album Work (his seventh studio album!), due... Continue Reading →
Ron Pope, Nashville-based singer/songwriter and all-around force to be reckoned with, has been in the studio diligently working on his next record, which is set for release later this year. Pope and company put their kickstands down at Welcome To 1979, Nashville's largest analog studio, to record; the new album features his signature gut-punching, heart-wrenching storytelling,... Continue Reading →
On the eve of the opening show of his current tour, Ron Pope had a slight emergency—his guitar was broken…or so he thought. “It is decidedly unnerving; guitars do this though, they get these phantom issues where they won’t work, and then you can plug it in the next day and it’ll work just fine, or you... Continue Reading →
Even though he's called New York home for over a decade, you don’t have to rifle too far into Ron Pope’s music to determine that the man has copious amounts of southern heritage running through his veins. With a classic outlaw-country sound embedded in the anti-Nashville scene in the 1960 and 1970s, Pope sticks to the common... Continue Reading →