Articles by Mark Whitfield

Canada-based, Swedish-born singer-songwriter Sarah MacDougall arrives in the UK in a couple of weeks with part-time carpenter and sometime actor, Canadian singer-songwriter Ben Kunder for a series of dates. Garnering increasingly international acclaim, MacDougall, a Western Canadian […]

And they will be hating the pages and pages of publicity from this.  Billboard reports: “The Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines is responding to the online controversy surrounding the band’s performance with Beyonce at the CMA Awards […]

Cornish singer-songwriter Joe Francis aka Winter Mountain is releasing his new record I Swear I Flew on November 18th, the first since his critically acclaimed self-titled debut in 2013 which the Sunday Express described as “an utterly fabulous record” […]

Some decent americana-y musicians in here including Jerry Douglas.  Good luck Jerry!  Rolling Stone reports: “The 50th annual CMA Awards are set to award country’s top artists later this evening, but two trophies have already been […]

Some amazing clips here if you have time to watch.  NPR.org reports: “During AmericanaFest last month, NPR Music’s Ann Powers and contributor Jewly Hight got together with musicians at Nashville’s historic Union Station Hotel for a […]