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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Pete Churchill

October 12, 2023 Peter Churchill 7

Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists. Ever? Impossible task. So, let us assume the writer cannot possibly have had access to every potential artist who might fit comfortably into that category and take it from there. […]

Album Reviews

The Good Lovelies “We Will Never Be The Same”

October 12, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Life lessons and harmonies. ‘We Will Never Be The Same’ is the first album of new material from Canada’s The Good Lovelies in five years. Comprising singer-songwriters Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough and Susan Passmore, they have […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Bennett & Wilson + Dropkick, Glasgow Americana Festival @Room 2, Glasgow – 6th October 2023

October 12, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Nestled midway within this year’s Glasgow Americana Festival’s line up was a rather surprising billing, Bennett & Wilson, two thirds of the trailblazing Bennett Wilson & Poole whose incendiary gig at the festival back in 2019 […]

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Preview: Robbie Cavanagh announces Tough Love UK dates

October 12, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Some of you may have caught Manchester’s Robbie Cavanagh at The Long Road Festival or The British Country Music Festival over the summer this year, but if you didn’t fear not as the singer-songwriter is taking […]

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Robert Rotifer “Holding Hands In Petrópolis”

October 12, 2023 Kimberly Bright 0

Rotifer casts a gimlet eye on the state of the world, mixed feelings about ageing, his lost generation, and disappointment. Although he isn’t as widely studied today, Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig was one of the […]

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  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Ron Sexsmith
  • Van Morrison “Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge”
  • Interview: Bernie Leadon Too Late to Be Cool? No way!
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Interview: Bernie Leadon Too Late to Be Cool? No way!

January 21, 2026 0

When pigs can fly and cows jump over the moon …. when hell freezes over …. when an NBA player gets called for “palming the ball” …. when George Costanza picks up a check … when […]

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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

January 13, 2026 0

“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 1

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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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 […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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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

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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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