That history is wildly incomplete, but it’s useful if only to mention Wilco’s “Hot Sun” from the EP, which acts as a bonus track for this list of three of the best Americana songs of 2024.

And sometimes, like with these four examples from the 1960s and 70s, the musical blooper made it better. When Marty Robbins and his band began tracking his 1961 song, “Don’t Worry,” the live ...