My tattered copy of The NME Book Of Rock, published in 1975, describes the LA band Spirit as, “Long a cult group, particularly among musicians. Spirit’s early records showcase excellent performances of distinctive material which rise, […]
Rock god and Bluegrass star come up with another winner. Coming just 14 years after the award-winning and double platinum-selling ‘Raising Sand’, one certainly can’t accuse Robert Plant and Alison Krauss of cashing in on that […]
More lockdown musings, anchored in Middlesex perhaps but with a much wider vision. The Rockingbirds and Alan Tyler are well recognised for their pioneering role in what we’ll call UK Americana, but in his solo career, […]
A wonderful and lovingly compiled tribute to the late Neal Casal. Neal Casal’s death, by his own hand, in 2019, reverberated throughout the musical community which Americana UK inhabits. Never a household name, never lauded with […]
It’s still enough of a novelty to go to a gig that much of the pleasure is derived from seeing faces from the past and catching up after almost two years of enforced isolation. Sure enough, […]
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