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Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir – “Don’t Look Back”

November 29, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir come up with a sophisticated and assured set of five Americana tunes. Insiders and die-hard Americana fans have probably heard Blake Brown’s name mentioned in the context of a […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Bob Dylan “Mississsippi”

October 17, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 1

Giving songs a title inspired by any of the fifty U.S. states is now becoming sort of a tradition, and each of these songs has a different background or connotation.Last week, Lyndon Bolton wrote about ‘Ohio’, […]

Kyle Stephens “Considering Every Change”

September 27, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

‘Considering Every Change’ shows that Kyle Stephens made the right decision to return to music. It was something of a start/stop/start process for Toronto singer-songwriter Kyle Stephens. As is the case with many artists, he picked […]

Diver Through “All Nighter”

September 26, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

On ‘All Nighter,’ Diver Through keep on skipping back and forth across the rock/Americana border line. OK, so once again, Jacksonville Florida trio Diver Through and their latest album ‘All Nighter’, bring us to the question […]

But Is It Americana? – The Beach Boys

August 23, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

In our latest article in this series, Ljubinko Zivkovic asks the question about one of the most American of bands. Could the Beach Boys be considered Americana? The main question here is whether the music of […]