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Track Premiere: Everett Wren “Billboard”

May 16, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s been fiddling pretty much all the way for Everett Wren – who gained his first performance credit in his family band at the age of 4.  A few years later and he’d won an Arkansas […]
Album Reviews

The Wave Pictures “When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings”

May 16, 2022 Michael Macy 0
There is a whole lot goin’ on here, and it is all good. The ‘Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings‘, the new double album by The Wave Pictures is a tour de force.  It energetically revives the […]
Pharis & Jason Romero
Videos

Video: Pharis & Jason Romero “Souvenir”

May 16, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
If you could imagine the soundtrack for restoring an old barn by hand in British Columbia, it would sound an awful lot like ‘Souvenir’ by Pharis & Jason Romero.  The much lauded duo, who have won […]
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Album Reviews

Elliah Heifetz “First Generation American”

May 16, 2022 Mark Nenadic 0
Disappointing.Traditional country-folk, veering into parody and pastiche. Elliah Heifetz, from the City of Brotherly Love, born of Russian immigrants to the USA, is today’s musical cosmonaut.  He’s a ‘First Generation American’, he grew up knowing poverty […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Woody Guthrie “1913 Massacre”

May 16, 2022 Clint West 0
Last week Dave Jarman brought us Bob Dylan’s version of the much covered ‘Man of Constant Sorrow’ which as he pointed out,  was first published by Dick Burnett in 1913. So it is to that year that […]

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George Mann and Si Kahn “Mayday!”

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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 0
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
Album Reviews

George Mann and Si Kahn “Mayday!”

July 7, 2026 0
An old-styled folk protest album from two past masters of the genre which skewers the current administration with acerbic lyrics. This is George Mann and Si Kahn’s second album working together following the release of Labor […]
News

JP Harris is “Shaving A Dead Man” with his new album

July 7, 2026 0
JP Harris, known across the americana world as a craftsman of outlaw country and old-time music, has announced his sixth full-length album. Shaving A Dead Man, produced by and featuring GRAMMY-winning musician Chance McCoy (Old Crow […]

  • Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations
  • George Mann and Si Kahn “Mayday!”
  • JP Harris is “Shaving A Dead Man” with his new album
  • More People Really Should Know About: Charm Of Finches
  • Matt Jones and the Bobs “Matt Jones and the Bobs”
  • Tough Old Bird “Wednesday’s Child” – keeping it all quiet
  • Video: Ryan Bingham “Let the Big Dog Eat” ft. The Texas Gentlemen
  • For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”
  • Rodney Crowell “Then Again”
  • Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 0
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
Interviews

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0
It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

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RS Country has posted a really timely piece about country music’s relationship with race entitled Rewriting Country Music’s Racist History which interviews among others Yola and Rhiannon Giddens, the latter challenging what she calls a “manufactured […]
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Hear Her Voice: Danni Nicholls announces UK Spring dates

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 100

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Embrace the change – a weekend listen. So here it is, as retirement from full-time teaching approaches as change to the format for this column. As a good friend pointed out ‘ Hang on, now instead […]

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