Americana Collected: Red Vinyl 2LP Flamin' Groovies songwriter Louisa Roach began by

songwriter Louisa Roach began by playing solo gigs around Liverpool

Die Hard’ to the giddy

trying to make sense of all the music playing in his head at the time

cluttered or over-involved

Americana Collected: Red Vinyl 2LP Flamin' Groovies songwriter Louisa Roach began byAmericana, also known as American roots music, is a mixture of genres that blend together into a distinctive roots oriented sound. Its a fusion of folk, blues, jazz, country, rock and roll, bluegrass and even gospel at times. Americana finds the origin of its name in 1984, when a radio station in California started to call their mix of American roots music Americana, but the genre goes back decades before that and knows many great names. Americana