Mark Whitfield

Tom Russell announces new album “October in the Railroad Earth”, UK dates

December 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

American troubadour Tom Russell, once described by Rolling Stone as “The greatest living folk-country songwriter” has announced a new album ‘October in the Railroad Earth’ confusingly not out in October but on March 15th via Proper Records.

RS Country publishes its best americana and country albums from 2018

December 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Obviously the world’s media are sitting on tenterhooks at the moment waiting for our writers’ and readers’ best of the past year, which will be published later this week on Thursday and Friday respectively, but if […]

Hayes Carll returns in February with “What It Is”

December 17, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

February sees the release of a new album by Texas-born singer/songwriter Hayes Carll called ‘What It Is’ via Dualtone Music, his sixth album to boot. Following the 2016 release of the personal and cathartic ‘Lovers and Leavers’, the […]

Your last chance to vote in 2018’s Americana UK’s readers’ poll

December 14, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

This year’s readers poll has 2 days left to go – as per usual, we’d like to hear your thoughts on what bowled you over during the last 12 months (plus our tradition villain of the […]

RS on gender inequality: “It’s time for country music to step up”

December 14, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

There’s a really good piece on RS Country today about the dearth of gender equality at the moment in country music in the US, which contains the alarming fact that for the first time in the […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

July 13, 2026 3

Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter […]

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

July 13, 2026 1

No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart. Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club […]

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]

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