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Classic Americana albums: Jim White “No Such Place”

June 23, 2021 Paul Kerr 2

Mention Jim White and it’s odds on that his spectacular debut album, ‘The Mysterious Tale Of How I Shouted Wrong Eyed Jesus’, will be the disc which everyone raves about. Fair enough, it is a classic […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Byrds “Ballad Of Easy Rider”

June 16, 2021 Martin Johnson 6

The Byrds’ place in the pantheon of rock greats is assured given their influence on folk rock, psychedelic rock and with ‘Sweetheart Of The Rodeo’ country rock and subsequently americana. However, this very brief summary ignores […]

Classic Americana Albums: New Riders of the Purple Sage “New Riders of the Purple Sage”

June 9, 2021 Jonathan Aird 8

Named for a Zane Grey novel and often unfairly judged to be just an adjunct of the Grateful Dead, not surprisingly due to the presence of key New Riders’ personnel on early Dead albums, and the […]

Classic Americana Albums: Ani DiFranco “Not A Pretty Girl”

June 2, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

‘Not A Pretty Girl’ captures an intriguing portrait of songwriter, musician, poet, and political activist Ani DiFranco as a young woman. It was her sixth studio album on Righteous Babe Records, the label she started at […]

Classic Americana Albums: Neko Case “Furnace Room Lullaby”

May 26, 2021 Peter Tomkins 1

‘Furnace Room Lullaby’ announces itself pretty quickly as “not your standard country album” with the front cover of Case stretched out on what appears to be a public toilet concrete floor like a corpse. Turn the […]