Mark Whitfield

Maverick Festival 2019 adds further names to the line-up

March 8, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this weekend dear reader with news of one of our favourite long-running americana festivals (one of the originals as it were) Maverick which takes place Friday 5th-Sunday 7th July at Easton Farm Park, […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Paul Kelly “Keep it to Yourself”

March 7, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Finding my way to americana was a long journey through the eighties but the beginning of the next decade on the other side of the world gave me a rush of music I’d never come across […]

Steve Earle, Emmylou and Crowell “Old Friends” – Listen

March 6, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

For the last few weeks, we’ve been covering the forthcoming Guy Clark covers album which Steve Earle and his Dukes will be releasing at the end of this month, and today we come to Clark’s 1988 […]

Kilkenny Roots Festival announces line-up for 2019

March 5, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

The multiple award-winning songwriter Patty Griffin, legendary Texan roots rocker Alejandro Escovedo and former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle are heading up what can only be described as a fairly stellar line-up for the 2019 Kilkenny Roots […]

Steve Earle “The Randall Knife” – Listen

March 4, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We’ve mentioned the new Steve Earle tribute album to Guy Clark a fair bit on the site recently, and there’s another offering now online from it, a terrific version of one of Guy Clark’s most personal […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show

October 7, 2026 0

The Old Crow Medicine Show have been entertaining us throughout the 21st century. Led from the outset by the irrepressible Ketch Secor, they have cycled through some 17 members over that time, including such luminaries of […]

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

October 7, 2026 0

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos follow up last year’s live record with their second album: a carefully considered studio effort that blends that live energy with focused instrumental and engineering maturity. Billion Dollar Art comes out […]

Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album

October 7, 2026 0

Rainbow Body is a new musical collaboration featuring Taylor Goldsmith and Griff Goldsmith (Dawes), Rick Mitarotonda (Goose), Eric Krasno (Lettuce, Soulive), Ross James (Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band), and Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, […]

Articles by Mark Whitfield

Maverick Festival 2019 adds further names to the line-up

Songs for the apocalypse: Paul Kelly “Keep it to Yourself”

Steve Earle, Emmylou and Crowell “Old Friends” – Listen

Kilkenny Roots Festival announces line-up for 2019

Steve Earle “The Randall Knife” – Listen

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album

Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years

Live Review: My Darling Clementine, Hen & Chicken, Bristol – 1st October 2026