Americana is a century-old musical melting pot where country, blues, folk and bluegrass collide. Originally this music would have been performed on banjos, fiddles and mandolins with guitars arriving later.
The earliest known guitarists in this style would have been the country music pioneers like Hank Williams and mandolin genius Bill Monroe. Americana came into its own via artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Elizabeth Cotton and The Carter Family, blending country, blues and folk to create the genre’s blueprint sound, before superstars like Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash made it their own.
