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About Jonathan Aird
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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Bruce Springsteen “Blind Spot” – what I choose not to see

April 24, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
And here we are at the start of a run of Tracks that we considered sweeping up into a track feature called “Bag of Big Hitters.”  It’s that time of year – the big names are […]
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Track Premiere: Firefall “Mr Soul”

April 23, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s a legendary song covered by a legendary band – Firefall have been rocking for some fifty years, with a roster of musicians that have included some whose earlier careers had included bands such as The […]
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Something for the weekend: Steve Forbert “Complications”

April 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 3
Well, well, well – what’s going on here?  The Deputy Editor trying to muscle further into the website, and carve out an additional niche?  No, not at all – it’s just a case of real-world complications […]
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Icarus Phoenix “Love” – all you need, really

April 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Things that you should know – one time – Icarus Phoenix is the front for prolific songwriter Drew Danburry.  The band has existed in many forms since 2020, and the current lineup is Drew Danburry (gtr/vox), […]
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Jeremy Garrett “Fly Away To Your Love” – get ye home

April 16, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Continuing our unofficial Garrett Week, we have the new single from Jeremy Garrett – the member of The Infamous Stringdusters has a new solo album ‘Storm Mountain‘ out on June 27th.  It’s the seventh solo album […]

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More People Really Should Know About: Eric Hagen

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Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth collaborative project to be released in October

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Americana Stories – Terena Elizabeth Bell “As We Go Along”

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy releases live album “Ghosts of American Psychonauts” in September

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Riley Downing “Landfill Poetry”

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Cover art for Eric Hgen album "Make Country Sad Again"
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More People Really Should Know About: Eric Hagen

August 18, 2026 0
In his excellent review of the album Revival, published in these hallowed pages upon its release in 2023, my esteemed colleague Michael Macy compared the songs of Eric Hagen to those of the great American realist […]
News

Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth collaborative project to be released in October

August 18, 2026 0
Allison de Groot is a clawhammer banjo player from Winnipeg, a Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo recipient and Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year nominee, best known for her duo with fiddler Tatiana […]
Features

Americana Stories – Terena Elizabeth Bell “As We Go Along”

August 18, 2026 0
Our next Americana Story comes from Terena Elizabeth Bell. Her short fiction collection, Tell Me What You See, was named one of the “best books of the century (so far)” by New York Society Library and […]

  • More People Really Should Know About: Eric Hagen
  • Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth collaborative project to be released in October
  • Americana Stories – Terena Elizabeth Bell “As We Go Along”
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy releases live album “Ghosts of American Psychonauts” in September
  • Riley Downing “Landfill Poetry”
  • Pauline Reese and Willie Nelson “Trail of Tears” – life has not been easy
  • Video Premiere: Very Old Morris “That’s No Way To Act”
  • For The Sake of The Song: The Flying Burrito Brothers “Sin City”
  • Waylon Payne “Wayward”
  • Kelly Hunt to release third album “Requiem For A Sleepless Night” in September
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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
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Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
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Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock

August 11, 2026 0
Remarkably, it is twenty years since Frank Turner released his first solo EP: Campfire Punkrock. The very title was both a statement of intent and a conscious identifier, defining his sound and the purpose of his […]

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Written as an ode to an absent father, ‘’Wandering Father, Forgotten Son’’ is an album of many textures, with the stylistic differences between Roy Michaels, the father, and Silas himself being mixed throughout the record, as […]

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