Mark Whitfield

The Avett Brothers “We Americans” – Watch

October 4, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with a track from the sublime new album from North Carolina’s Avett Brothers which is out today – ‘Closer Than Together’ is their most political record to date, a […]

UK Americana Awards 2020 nominations are now open, early bird tickets on sale

October 4, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Unbelievably it’s that time of year again – the relentless march of time continues (it never gives up) – and so voting for the next AMAUKs is now open. A key event each year in the […]

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra kick off UK tour next week

October 3, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Newcastle-based genre-hopping roots quintet Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra, who Uncut described as “evoking the spirit of Bob Wills and Django Reinhardt” will be setting off on a UK tour next week which runs […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Wilco “She’s a Jar”

October 2, 2019 Mark Whitfield 1

‘Summerteeth’ was the album that turned the masses on to Wilco, well the masses by relative americana terms, and it’s crazy to think that it was twenty – twenty! – years ago that it landed. Creating their […]

The Band release 50th anniversary edition of second album

September 30, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

When The Band’s seminal eponymous second album was released fifty years ago on September 22, 1969, not much more was known about the reclusive group than when they released their landmark debut ‘Music From Big Pink’ […]

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