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Tracks

Ryan Dugré “Glace Bay” – Listen

March 10, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Middle of the week, well we know how that feels – so here’s a short tune that should take you away from wherever you are to the wide-open spaces. And if you happen to be in […]

Features

Ten top Swamp Rock tracks

March 10, 2021 Rick Bayles 8

In my recent little trawl through the Americana music of Louisiana we’ve had Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop so, finally, we come to a close cousin, Swamp Rock. Swamp Rock started to be identified as a […]

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Album Reviews

Morning Bride “Goodbye, Seaside Danny Wilde”

March 10, 2021 Helen Jones 0

Richly woven and warm, these transportive tales will take you away. While Morning Bride are a band formed in London, its members come from various northern realms: the Yorkshire coast for rhythm guitarist Mark James Pearson, […]

Album Reviews

Cassandra Jenkins “An Overview on Phenomenal Nature”

March 10, 2021 Harold Hogan 0

Spellbinding Art-Americana from NYC. New York native Cassandra Jenkins returns with her second full-length studio album; an intimate, varied, and complex piece of work. Due to go on tour with Purple Mountains before David Berman’s suicide, […]

Columns

Sounds from the Shed – Week 9

March 10, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

A monumental week for all of us. So I cleared the desk, put the laptop in its case, HD camera combo in its box, packed the files into a bulging Aldi bag, noted in my diary […]

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  • Steep Canyon Rangers ride on to their “Next Act” in May 2026
  • “Remember The Humans” – first in a decade from Broken Social Scene
  • Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind
  • Sean Taylor “First Light”
  • More People Really Should Know About: Pat Reedy
  • Mirah “The Ballad of The Bride of Frankenstein” are we monsters
  • Video: Kezia Gill “Gut Feeling” – when it speaks, you better listen
  • Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Mary Chapin Carpenter “American Stooge”
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Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

Interviews

Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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