Americana

[Jac@stafford.net]

Jac, not wishing to be pedantic, but are you being a bit parochial. For instance, are you limiting yourself to the lower 48 or do you include Alaska and Hawaii?
Americana is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a genre of music having its roots in the early folk music of America.
Where America is defined as:
1 either continent (North America or South America) of the western hemisphere
2 or the Americas \ the lands of the western hemisphere including North, Central, and South America and the West Indies
3 United States of America
Regards
Tony

That's one tightly focused definition pivoting about music. Irrelevant here. We know Americana when we see it.