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Ten top Swamp Pop tracks

February 23, 2021 Rick Bayles 7
In the 1950s Cajun music and Rock and Roll got together and produced a daughter – they called her “Swamp Pop”! By now, regular readers will know I’m quite a fan of Cajun and Zydeco music […]
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Track Premiere: The Armadillo Paradox “Can’t Hold A Job”

February 23, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
The Armadillo Paradox are a country/bluegrass influenced duo: Sol Chase brings the bluegrass and storyteller/former hip-hop artist Jared Huskey brings….the stories, but new single ‘Can’t Hold a Job‘ is hip-hop free.  It’s not such a strange […]
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Video Premiere: David Picco “Waitin’ for the Summertime”

February 23, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Just ahead of his new album, ‘Live It Down’, we’re pleased to premiere David Picco’s new video for ‘Waitin’ for the Summertime’.  It’s the second single from the album, which is Picco’s sixth full-length release.  The […]
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Forgotten Artists – The Black Sorrows

February 22, 2021 Rick Bayles 6
Another possible first for the FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series – I don’t think we’ve featured an Antipodean band before! The Black Sorrows hail from Melbourne, Australia, and started life as an R&B covers band. The founder and […]
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Amythyst Kiah “Black Myself” – Listen

February 22, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
You know the song, of course you do, it was one of the standout songs on the standout debut album by Our Native Daughters. Well, here it has been reimagined by Amythyst Kiah (one of those […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Songs from Season Three of “The Bear”

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As we await the outcome of our search for the Best Americana Song Of All Time, Dean Nardi kicks off the return of our popular Essentials series with a light-hearted look at the songs that pepper […]
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Brown Horse “Total Dive”

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Another stellar offering from a band with a burgeoning reputation. Norfolk’s Brown Horse is a band that is nothing if not prolific. Total Dive is the band’s third album in as many years. That productivity probably […]
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Brudi Brothers to release new EP and KEXP session

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Mom and Pop Music artists The Brudi Brothers have announced the release of a new EP titled Dark & Stormy on April 17th. In celebration of the release, vaunted Seattle radio station KEXP has aired The […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Boz Scaggs “Loan Me A Dime”

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When most people hear the name Boz Scaggs, the stylish singer who recorded multi-platinum albums “Slow Dancer” in 1974 and “Silk Degrees” in 1976 for Columbia Records, songs like ‘Lowdown,’ ‘What Can I Say’ and ‘Lido […]
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It is an immutable law of album reviewing that at the end of every year when things are winding down and there’s very little new around an album pops up that is, quite simply, immense. It’s […]
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The Nadas “Come Along For The Ride”

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Enjoyable breezy, poppy americana. The Nadas were formed in the mid-nineties by friends Mike Butterworth and Jason Walsmith while studying at the Iowa State University which is to be found to the north of the state […]

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