August 2025 – Page 14

Video: Waylon Jennings “Songbird”

August 18, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

What a joyous surprise it is to hear brand new music from country legend Waylon Jennings. Waylon’s son, three-times GRAMMY Award-winner Shooter Jennings, explored his father’s tape recordings and unearthed enough previously unheard songs to compile […]

Something for the weekend: Octoberman “Harry Nilsson”

August 15, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. It’s release day for the new Icarus Phoenix extended Deluxe version of “I Should Have Known the Things You Never Said” which contains almost four times […]

Interview: Cory Hanson on writing songs about all kinds of people

August 15, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Cory Hanson writes songs …. a lot of songs, ten albums in eleven years’ worth of songs divided between the band he fronts, Wand, the Cory Hanson Band and his solo act. Asked if he is […]

Jubal Lee Young “Squirrels”

August 15, 2025 Jonathan Smith 2

Downhome truths and shaggy dog tales with front porch tunes. “Squirrels” is Jubal Lee Young’s second album release in as many years, and he sees it as a companion piece to 2024’s “Wild Birds Warble”. There is […]

Levon Helm at 'Life is Good Festival 2011

Classic Clips: “The Weight” by an All Star Cast in tribute to Levon Helm – AMA Awards Show 2012

August 15, 2025 FredArnold 1

I know, I know, everybody knows this song and a million versions of it, but I had never seen this live version from the Americana Awards night in 2012, where everybody seems progressively to blow the […]

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0

Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

July 21, 2026 0

Absorbing collection of songs that subtly reveal the quiet joys of motherhood. The first sound that emerges from the new Sailing Stones album, Slow Magic, is the metronomic rhythm of a baby’s heartbeat with its gentle […]

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

July 21, 2026 0

If you’ve ever found yourself searching for music that offers comfort without pretending life is easy, then you should know Travis Shallow. He writes songs that acknowledge the darkness but never surrender to it, and he […]

Month: August 2025

Video: Waylon Jennings “Songbird”

Something for the weekend: Octoberman “Harry Nilsson”

Interview: Cory Hanson on writing songs about all kinds of people

Jubal Lee Young “Squirrels”

Classic Clips: “The Weight” by an All Star Cast in tribute to Levon Helm – AMA Awards Show 2012

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

Live Review: Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons + Red Hash + Ella Spencer, Water Rats, London – 8th July 2026

Martin Carthy “Along the Road Forever – Live at the BBC”