If the English-speaking world thinks of her at all, France Gall is best known for winning the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with a Serge Gainsbourg song ‘Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son‘. The French sixties Ye-Ye […]
Group therapy in Glasgow keeps the music moving in Belle and Sebastian’s new video, ‘Unnecessary Drama’. The band returns to form with this barn-burner of a song from their first full-length album in seven years titled […]
In Greenwich, Dave Sutherland takes the train to Georgia. The Americana experience can be elusive. Sometimes, it requires a bit of magic. During the break in a Clifton Chenier performance at a parish fundraiser in Richmond, […]
Late outlaw era country rock on lost album from 1979. When Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings turned their back on the Nashville sound in the early 1970s in search of greater artistic freedom, they forged a […]
Hell’s teeth but this is a good song. Of course it is – there are a lot of special artists in Americana but few as special as Mary Gauthier. This verbal painting of the feelings on […]
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