Features
I Write the Songs – Pat Alger
Pat Alger is one of those quiet, unassuming songwriters that many will never have heard of; but if you’re a fan of americana music you can’t have failed to have heard his songs. Other considerations aside, […]
Articles by Rick Bayles
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Bruce Springsteen “Pay Me My Money Down” – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2006
There’s a lot of debate about whether or not Springsteen is an americana artist but, when he’s channeling the spirit of Pete Seeger, as he did on his 2006 album ‘We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions’, […]
Album Reviews
Elijah Johnston “Day Off”
Album from this year’s winner of the Vic Chesnutt Songwriter competition. The press release for this album describes Elijah Johnston as an “Emo indie-pop singer-songwriter and recovering lo-fi addict from Athens, Georgia”. That’s this album pretty […]
Album Reviews
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen “Hold On”
Blistering bluegrass from two-time Grammy nominees. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen are a progressive bluegrass band that have twice received Grammy nominations for Best Bluegrass album and, on the strength of this new album, it looks […]
Book Reviews
Book Review. John W. Barry “Levon Helm: Rock, Roll, Ramble. The Inside Story of the Man, the Music and the Midnight Ramble”
There are many, especially among Americana aficionados, who would consider John W. Barry a very lucky man indeed. To have spent so much time with the late, great Levon Helm, at the tail end of his […]