<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Americana on Lance Barker Home</title><link>https://lancebarker.me/tags/americana/</link><description>Recent content in Americana on Lance Barker Home</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>© 2026 Lance Barker</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://lancebarker.me/tags/americana/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Fairgrounds at the End of Summer</title><link>https://lancebarker.me/blogs/2025-09-16-the-fairgrounds-at-the-end-of-summer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://lancebarker.me/blogs/2025-09-16-the-fairgrounds-at-the-end-of-summer/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://lancebarker.me/images/plumas-americana-2025.webp" &gt;&lt;figure&gt;&lt;img
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&lt;p&gt;The mountains don&amp;rsquo;t care about your festival.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They were there before the fairgrounds and they&amp;rsquo;ll be there long after. They just sit above Quincy, California, the way they always have — patient, enormous, indifferent — while somewhere below, a fiddle starts up and people who&amp;rsquo;ve driven three hours from the Bay Area shuffle toward the sound.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>