JD Souther

Austin City Limits (ACL) heads to Nashville for a special broadcast featuring performance highlights from this year’s Americana Honors & Awards. ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014 premieres this Saturday, November 22, on PBS stations across the United States and includes performances from Robert Plant and Ry Cooder, among many others. The show was recorded live at the Americana Music Association's 13th Annual Honors & Awards ceremony at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium in September.

Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.

Bright and neurotic girl Bell sets two goals for New Year - to quit smoking and to fall in love. As the first task turns out to be too difficult, she puts all her energy into the second.

ちょっと大人びたベーダは13歳。新しいママに赤ちゃんが生まれ、親友にBFができ、自分だけなんだか取り残された感じ。そんな春休み、“会ったことのない興味ある人物”についてのレポートの課題が出る。彼女にとってそれは、自分を生んですぐに死んだ幻のママ。女優だったママは夏季公演で訪れた、このペンシルヴァニアで葬儀屋のパパと出会い、電撃結婚したのだ。彼女の面影を求めてその出生地ロスへ、パパの反対を押し切って出かけるベーダ。

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

無茶な飛行でいつも周囲をはらはらさせているコロラド州の森林火災の消火隊員ピートは、非番の日に起きた山火事の消火活動に出動した際、飛行機にトラブルが起こった同僚のアルを助けようとして、爆死してしまう。天国に行ったピーターはハップという天使と出会い、彼女の命で現世に舞い戻り、パイロット養成学校の生徒テッドに守護霊としてアドバイスを与えることになる。

Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars including Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits.