Mark Nenadic

Tom Fairnie “Lightning in the Dark” (Independent, 2020)

July 13, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0

Tom Fairnie refers to his music as ‘Celticana’, which is a fair summation of his blended Americana influences and Scottish roots. The bagpipes solo kind of give it away right at the beginning. To cement this […]

Mitch Dean “Holding Back the Levee” (Independent, 2020)

June 19, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Mitch Dean is no spring chicken. Perhaps more of a gnarled rooster. And, as we all know, gnarled roosters make much better records than any spring chickens ever will. Dean’s voice is […]

Classic Americana Albums: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Will the Circle be Unbroken” (United Artists, 1972)

June 10, 2020 Mark Nenadic 3

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, pop music was crawling with long-haired folk-rockers from California. Teeming with them in fact. But these god-damn Long Beach hippies, led by Jeff Hanna and McEuen, took themselves off […]

Ben Kunder “Searching For The Stranger” (Independent, 2020)

June 1, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0

Alarm bells start ringing for this writer when faced with a promo picture of a singer-songwriter replete with a beard and sporting the obligatory woolly hat. Fearing the worst, tracks are cued up with trepidation. Phew! […]

Pete Bernhard “Harmony Ascension Division” (Independent, 2020)

May 20, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0

Nice and uncomplicated. The world could probably do with a little more nice and uncomplicated these days. The Devil Makes Three’s Pete Bernhard, along with his bandmates, have been gifting the world epic soundscapes of rootsy […]

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Wilco - summerteeth
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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 […]

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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 […]

Videos

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Tired of Being Alone”

July 7, 2023 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We will be spending most of the weekend trying to work out how to set up our new Threads account which can go with our one […]

Album Reviews

The Equatorial Group “Apricity” (Independent, 2018)

May 25, 2018 0

The Equatorial Group’s self-funded debut album ‘Apricity’ does not fit neatly into a particular genre of Americana, having a distinctly psychedelic acoustic sound. ‘Motorbikes’ is the closest to a country-Americana song with the opening guitar picking of […]

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Video Premiere: Steve Dawson “Twig Bucket”

August 23, 2022 0

Here’s the latest single from prolific, Nashville-based Steve Dawson, recorded live at The Studio Nashville by Brook Sutton. The studio version of ‘Twig Bucket’ appears on Dawson’s second album to be released this year, ‘Phantom Threshold’, […]

Articles by Mark Nenadic

Tom Fairnie “Lightning in the Dark” (Independent, 2020)

Mitch Dean “Holding Back the Levee” (Independent, 2020)

Classic Americana Albums: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Will the Circle be Unbroken” (United Artists, 1972)

Ben Kunder “Searching For The Stranger” (Independent, 2020)

Pete Bernhard “Harmony Ascension Division” (Independent, 2020)

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”