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  • [ April 1, 2026 ] Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour News
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  • [ April 1, 2026 ] The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012) Features
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Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour

April 1, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Not only is Jim Lauderdale one of the most beloved, decorated songwriters ever to grace stages and studios around the world, but he’s also the most prolific. Since his major label debut in 1991, the recent […]
Interviews

Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
Gre3tchen Peters at Cambridge Folk Festival 2010
Features

The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)

April 1, 2026 FredArnold 0
Four songs received exactly the same score (so effectively 5th=) but we have separated them based on the number of votes they received from our writers. This is the first of today’s entries. This is the […]
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Lost Guthrie/Dylan duet tape found and restored by Tweedy

April 1, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 2
Extraordinary news today that a lost Woady Guthrie and Rab Dylan duet has been discovered lurking in the archives of the Jonesonian Institute and has been given to renowned musician and producer Seth Tweedy to bring […]
Tracks

Eilen Jewell “Deportee” – a timely cover

April 1, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Today it’s good news and bad news – the first being that Eilen Jewell has a new single out, and the second being that it is accompanied by the announcement that after twenty years of touring […]

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Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour

News
April 1, 2026 0

Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

Interviews
April 1, 2026 0
Gre3tchen Peters at Cambridge Folk Festival 2010

The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)

Features
April 1, 2026 0
Woody Guthrie photo March 1943

Lost Guthrie/Dylan duet tape found and restored by Tweedy

News
April 1, 2026 2

Eilen Jewell “Deportee” – a timely cover

Tracks
April 1, 2026 0
News

Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour

April 1, 2026 0
Not only is Jim Lauderdale one of the most beloved, decorated songwriters ever to grace stages and studios around the world, but he’s also the most prolific. Since his major label debut in 1991, the recent […]
Interviews

Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
Gre3tchen Peters at Cambridge Folk Festival 2010
Features

The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)

April 1, 2026 0
Four songs received exactly the same score (so effectively 5th=) but we have separated them based on the number of votes they received from our writers. This is the first of today’s entries. This is the […]

  • Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour
  • Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”
  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)
  • Lost Guthrie/Dylan duet tape found and restored by Tweedy
  • Eilen Jewell “Deportee” – a timely cover
  • Video Premiere: Mike & Amy Aiken “Me and You”
  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 9th= Jason Isbell – “Elephant” (2013)
  • Dylan LeBlanc returns to his “Cautionary Tale” and releases fan favourite demo
  • Norma “Country Catering”
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Interviews

Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

March 30, 2026 0
When it comes right down to it, the heart of americana music has always been about connecting listeners to real experiences and emotions, and Natalie Del Carmen is currently one of the best examples of what […]
Interviews

Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]

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More People Really Should Know About: Melissa Carper

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