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The Long Road ends the long wait by announcing first wave of artists

February 25, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Bucking the trend, the festival is planning its biggest year yet! “The Long Road Festival, a celebration of Country, Americana, Roots, Folk Rock music, and culture”, returns to the impressive grounds of Stanford Hall in Leicestershire […]

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Sunny War “Armageddon In A Summer Dress”

February 25, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

A hauntingly majestic follow-up to her 2023 breakthrough album. Having released one of the best albums of 2023 with “Anarchist Gospel”, Sunny War (a.k.a. Sydney Ward) spent much of the following year on the road, opening […]

Tracks

Suzanne Vega “Rats” – the vermin are everywhere

February 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Suzanne Vega has a new tour upcoming – well hooray!  It’s in the States, and a couple of dates in Germany.  Well, that’s not particularly useful for the beating heart of Vega fandom in the UK.  […]

Videos

Video Premiere: See Night “NYC Coats”

February 25, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the video premiere of the latest single from LA-based See Night, the musical project of guitarist and singer-songwriter Linda Sao.  “NYC Coats” is a raw, stripped-back song that reflects the simple, heartfelt subject matter in […]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Alan Tyler “How To Never Have A Hit: The Confessions of an Unsuccessful Singer-Songwriter”

February 24, 2025 Mark Underwood 2

The epiphany for writing this book occurred while Alan Tyler was listening to random recordings of the Complete Hank Williams on the Bakerloo Line on the London Underground. Chancing upon the audio of ‘How To Write […]

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

December 12, 2025 0

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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

Interviews

Interview: Brian Dunne asks is it so bad to want a good life?

December 9, 2025 0

While patiently waiting for Brian Dunne to get his due from those who listen to and hopefully buy physical media, it is worthwhile to linger in the brilliance of his fourth album, “Clams Casino” (Missing Piece, […]

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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 […]

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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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