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Songs for the apocalypse: The David Mayfield Parade “Blue Skies Again”

April 30, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Three years ago when I was in Nashville I ended up seeing a band called The David Mayfield Parade at a small venue called The Railsplitters which was one of those shows that you don’t necessarily […]

Features

Save Our Venues UK campaign launched

April 28, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

The Music Venue Trust has announced #saveourvenues, a new national campaign to save hundreds of UK grassroots music venues at imminent risk of being permanently closed down. The organisation states on its press release: “Without these […]

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Lucinda Williams to broadcast live stream tonight

April 28, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Last Friday, Lucinda Williams has released her new album ‘Good Souls Better Angels’ to it’s fair to say across the board acclaim, including ourselves who awarded it one of our rare 10s. If you’ve been enjoying […]

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Amanda Shires: “I’m just going to play music every day”

April 27, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

RS Country has a nice feature up at the moment on Amanda Shires’ fundraising ‘I So Lounging’ shows which have been broadcast live each evening over the last month and which feature her other half Jason […]

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Rosanne Cash and John Paul White join forces for “We’re All In This Together”

April 27, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

John Paul White has teamed up with Rosanne Cash for the song ‘We’re All in This Together Now’ the melody for which was originally written by White for a now eerily prophetic set of lyrics which Cash […]

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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

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Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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Interview: Brian Dunne asks is it so bad to want a good life?

December 9, 2025 0

While patiently waiting for Brian Dunne to get his due from those who listen to and hopefully buy physical media, it is worthwhile to linger in the brilliance of his fourth album, “Clams Casino” (Missing Piece, […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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