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Frank Richard “Rough Enough”

November 15, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 2

Long overdue addition to top-grade Americana, but well worth the wait. When a US singer-songwriter with enough mileage on his clock to have been arrested at an anti-Vietnam demonstration and received his first guitar lesson from […]

Various Artists “Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal”

November 15, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

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 […]

Fine Lines “Deadbeat Lullabies”

November 11, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Folk-country infused americana from Northwest England but you wouldn’t know it Mark Radcliffe has something of a reputation in and around roots music as a broadcaster of note and sometime musician. ‘Deadbeat Lullabies’ is the Fine […]

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Billy Strings “Renewal”

November 11, 2021 David Jarman 4

Rising star flat picker Strings and his band deliver a vigorous blend of bluegrass and contemporary styles with fine lyrics. Billy Strings has come to be rightly regarded as one of the rising stars of the […]

Various Artists “Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dustbowl Ballads”

November 10, 2021 Alan Fitter 0

81 years after it was released, fourteen artists give their take on Woody Guthrie’s classic album “Dust Bowl Blues” In 1940 Woody Guthrie released his album ‘Dust Bowl Ballads’ consisting of 12 songs about the drought […]

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