Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage style that transcended the regional boundaries of our country and united a youth culture that eventually spread its message throughout the entire world.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.