Mark Whitfield

Listen to John Prine’s rare live album from 1978

August 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Not here sorry, over at RS Country. To embed or not to embed, that’s the question. They report: “John Prine was cleaning his basement when he stumbled upon an old concert recording. But it wasn’t just […]

RS: “Country music stars are reluctant to speak up about Charlottesville”

August 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

There’s a great piece in RS Country at the moment about mainstream country music’s deafening silence since the events in Charlottesville a couple of weeks back which has echoes of a piece they wrote earlier in the […]

Mid-Sussex americana beer festival this weekend

August 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

If there are two things that go well together in life, it’s listening to americana and drinking copious amounts of alcohol to drown your americana-related sorrows in, and you can do both at the same time […]

Track premiere: Paul Tabachneck “New America” – Listen

August 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Brooklyn singer songwriter Paul Tabachneck has been writing in his own words “relationshippy” music for a while now, but world events have turned his head to another subject. He told us: “One reason I always gave short […]

Joan Osborne “Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)”

August 21, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Joan Osborne has just released an album of Bob Dylan covers, review coming up on AUK soon, and from that record she’s releasing a single. Speaking about her version of ‘Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)’, […]

Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers “Abnormal Condition”

July 20, 2026 0

Raw, intense, varied Americana with a great ‘live’ feel. Abnormal Conditions’ is the fifth album by upstate New York roots rockers Frank Migliorelli and the Dirt Nappers, and it is an absolute corker. It blends rock, […]

For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”

July 20, 2026 0

There are some songs that just hit the spot. Songs that one instantly adores and that have an almost profound effect on you and that you keep coming back to year after year. It’s been nearly […]

Brennan Leigh, live at St. Mary's Creative Space, Chester - 32d July 2026

Live Review: Brennen Leigh + Jackson Ward, St. Mary’s Creative Space, Chester – 3rd July 2026

July 20, 2026 0

There was an appealing symmetry to this double bill at St Mary’s Creative Space. Brennen Leigh has spent the last decade demonstrating that traditional country music can remain a living form rather than a museum exhibit, […]

Articles by Mark Whitfield

Listen to John Prine’s rare live album from 1978

RS: “Country music stars are reluctant to speak up about Charlottesville”

Mid-Sussex americana beer festival this weekend

Track premiere: Paul Tabachneck “New America” – Listen

Joan Osborne “Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)”

Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers “Abnormal Condition”

For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”

Live Review: Brennen Leigh + Jackson Ward, St. Mary’s Creative Space, Chester – 3rd July 2026

John R. Miller “The Great Unknowing”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 237 “I’m going down to Liverpool…”