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The Song Remains: Don Nix (1941-2024)

January 7, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

Legendary Memphis songwriter, musician and producer. Though he released nine solo albums, Memphis musician Don Nix, who died at home in Germantown, Tennessee in his sleep on New Year’s Eve, main claim to musical fame is […]

Live Review: Dawes + Winnetka Bowling League, Carolina Theater, Durham, North Carolina – 9th November, 2024

January 7, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

At one time in the late 80’s, Bob Dylan began what became known as The Never-Ending Tour, simply because it seemed like one tour would bleed into the next, year after year, album after album. You […]

Jim White & Trey Blake “The Long Road Home” – throw off those mental chains

January 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1

What a song we have for you today – taken from Jim White & Trey Blake’s new album ‘Precious Bane‘ (out on the last day of January). It’s a gothic polemic, of sorts, a declaration of […]

Video: Zack Keim “Battery Lane”

January 7, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the brilliant song-craft on display from Pittsburgh singer-songwriter Zack Keim in his latest single. “Battery Lane” builds beautifully, with delicate guitar repeating over warm bass and gently pulsing rhythms. When the percussion becomes more […]

For the Sake of the Song: Bob Dylan & The Band “Tears of Rage” (Bootleg Version)

January 6, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

“See if you can do something with this.” There are inconsistencies galore in the story of how events unfolded that ultimately led to Bob Dylan writing lyrics for ‘Tears of Rage’. First and foremost is disabusing […]

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Jimmy Buffett - A1A
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

Kassi Valazza “Smile” – Turn that frown upside down

April 27, 2023 0

Shh…don’t tell the video editor, but we’ve got a Track here for you that has a visualiser video that might just stray into full video territory. But I think it’ll be alright, he’s slipped out of […]

Features

Top ten banjo tracks

April 1, 2020 2

The banjo has made a significant contribution to Americana dating back in its earliest forms to thirteenth-century sub-Saharan cultures. It almost certainly reached America with slaves during the eighteenth century and by the nineteenth century it […]

News

The Guardian picks 10 americana albums to look forward to in 2017

January 6, 2017 0

Missed this one over the holiday period sorry (we weren’t updating to be fair) (to ourselves), but it’s worth a quick look since we’re only 7 days into the new year. The Guardian has picked ten key […]

Year: 2025

The Song Remains: Don Nix (1941-2024)

Live Review: Dawes + Winnetka Bowling League, Carolina Theater, Durham, North Carolina – 9th November, 2024

Jim White & Trey Blake “The Long Road Home” – throw off those mental chains

Video: Zack Keim “Battery Lane”

For the Sake of the Song: Bob Dylan & The Band “Tears of Rage” (Bootleg Version)

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”