Videos
Video: Lyle Lovett “If I Had a Boat”
This week’s retro video is the beautiful ‘If I Had a Boat’, the opening song on ‘Pontiac’, released by Lyle Lovett in 1987. The album reached number 12 in the Billboard Country Chart and was certified […]
Month: January 2020
News
Jim Lauderdale to release bluegrass album “When Carolina Comes Homes Again”
On the heels of 2019’s ‘From Another World’, two-time Grammy Award-winning Jim Lauderdale will release his 33rd album ‘When Carolina Comes Homes Again’ on March 6th via Yep Roc Records. You can listen to the first […]
Album Reviews
Buffalo Jones “Standing By” (Independent, 2019)
Buffalo Jones have been releasing music and playing together for over ten years now, and their latest release is shot through with a suitably reflective tone. There are songs about loss, heartbreak, the realities of touring, […]
Tracks
Songs for the apocalypse: The Handsome Family “So Much Wine”
The Handsomes are one of those bands that feel so synonymous with what the americana genre means to me I feel they should be on the front of textbooks, with that rich combination of melody, atmosphere […]
Features
“What is this Americana thing anyway…?” – Clint West
Time for another in our series looking at the routes our writers have taken into Americana and just what it is that makes it our favourite genre. This week we are warmed by Clint West’s pathological […]