Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: The Chicks “Home”
I’m not ashamed to admit that the first time I heard a Patty Griffin song was when it was covered by the Chicks (née Dixie). The band are kind of a gateway drug after all, with […]
Year: 2022
Features
The Other Side of Me: Tim Martin takes us across the Channel to explore the delights of France Gall
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 […]
Videos
Video: Belle and Sebastian “Unnecessary Drama”
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 […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: Dave Sutherland, The Morden Arms, Greenwich – 6th March 2022
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, […]
Album Reviews
Loney Hutchins “Appalachia”
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 […]