This time we remembered George Jones who died 2 years ago today. I also featured a ton of artists playing show this week around the Twin Cities!

Americana gig list:

Lord Huron / Leon Bridges - s/o tonight 4/26 - First Avenue
Dar Williams - tonight 4/26 - Cedar
Elvis Perkins - tonight 4/26 - Icehouse
Hot Club of Cowtown - Monday 4/27 - Dakota
Rhiannon Giddens / Bhi Bhiman - Tuesday 4/28 - Pantages
Whitehorse - Tuesday 4/28 - 7th St. Entry
Actual Wolf Album Release Show feat. The Cactus Blossoms Wed. 4/29 - Turf Club
Fathom Lane - 4/30 - Cedar
Hurray for the Riff Raff / Daniel Romano - 5/1 - Cedar
Drive-By Truckers - 5/1 - First Avenue
Bobby Bare Jr. - 5/1 - Turf Club
Charlie Parr - 5/1 - The Varsity
Trampled By Turtles / Web of Sunsets - 5/2 - First Avenue (just announced)
The Pines - (2 shows) 5/2 - The Dakota
Mary Chapin-Carpenter - 5/2 - State Theatre
Alejandro Escovedo - 5/7 - The Dakota
American Scarecrows - 5/7 - The Turf
Daniel Lanois / Rocco DeLuca - 5/7 - The Cedar
Gear Daddies - 5/8 & 5/9 & 5/10 - First Avenue
Robbie Fulks / Don Stiernberg / High 48s - 5/8 - O'Shaughnessy @ St Thomas U.
Suzy Bogguss - 5/8 - The Dakota
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank release show / Ryan Young - 5/9 - Turf Club
The Steel Wheels - 5/10 - The Cedar
John Moreland - 5/12 - Turf Club
Freedy Johnston - 5/12 - The Dakota
Butch Walker - 5/22 - The Cedar
Old Crow Medicine Show / The Devil Makes Three - Vetter Stone Amphitheatre, Mankato - 5/28
Murder By Death - 5/29 - Turf Club
The Last Revel / Dead Horses / Pistol Whippin' Party Penguins - The Cedar - 5/30
Mandolin Orange - 5/31 - 7th St. Entry
Kris Delmhorst - 6/5 - BLB
Mark Cohn / Shawn Colvin - 6/6 - MN Zoo
Lucinda Williams - 6/9 - MN Zoo
Lucy Kaplansky & Richard Shindell - 6/11 - The Cedar
Blue Ox Festival - June 11, 12, & 13 - Eau Claire, Wi
The Blasters - 6/17 - Lee's
Tedeschi Trucks Band / Sharon Jones - 6/19 -Somerset Amphitheatre
Bodeans - 6/19 - MN Zoo
Trombone Shorty - 6/23 - Cabooze Plaza
Wayne Hancock - 6/24 - Lee's
An Evening with Erik Koskinen Band & Friends - Friday 6/26 - Turf Club
Dale Watson - 6/27 - Lee's
Somebody's Darling - 7/2 - Lee's Liquor Lounge
Kasey Musgraves - 7/9 - MN Zoo
Trampled By Turtles - 7/11 - Bayfront Park, Duluth
Dawes / Lake St. Dive - 7/14 - Cabooze Plaza
Dwight Yoakam - 7/17 - Lakefront Music Fest in Prior Lake
The Blind Boys of Alabama - 7/18 - The Dakota
The Mavericks - 7/21 - MN Zoo
Blackberry Smoke - 7/24 - MN Zoo
MAson Jenings / S Carey - 7/25 - MN Zoo
Billy Joe Shaver - 8/5 - The Dakota
Charlie Daniels Band - 8/21 - Vetter Stone Amphitheatre
Robert Randolph & the Family Band - 9/3 - MN Zoo
Merle Haggard / Kris Kristofferson / Sturgill Simpson - 9/7 - MN State Fair
John Prine rescheduled date - Orpheum 9/19
John Gorka 11/21 - The Cedar

Weekly gigs
The Roe Family Singers - Monday's - 331
Liquor Pigs - Fridays 7-9pm - Palmer's

Segments

The Grand Tour
George Jones

Wake Up Rouder
Spirit Family Reunion

Mule Skinner Blues
Dolly Parton

Old Number 4
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank

Something to Get Through
Dar Williams

Sugardown
Fathom Lane

Your Good Fortune
Mavis Staples

Paper Van Gogh
Shelby Lynne

Hate This Town
Slim Dunlap

Broken Heart Tattoos
Ryan Bingham

I'll Share My World With You
George Jones

Home Run King
Gene Clark

Dead Man's Hand
Lord Huron

My Baby Took My Baby Away
Bobby Bare Jr.

Hollow
Trampled By Turtles

Thinking of You
Actual Wolf

No One Else
Hurray for the Riff Raff

The One That Got Away
Daniel Romano

Moving to Brussels
Bhi Bhiman

Heart and Bones
The Pines

Up Above My Head
Rhiannon Giddens

Falling Star
The Jayhawks

Over the Red Cedar
Charlie Parr

Hell No I Ain't Happy
Drive-By Truckers

Watermelon & Root Beer
Sarah Gayle Meech

The One I Hurt
Whitehorse

Illegal Smile
John Prine

It's all Goin to Pot
Willie and Merle

The Race Is On
George Jones