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Classic Americana Albums: Levon Helm & The RCO All Stars ” Levon Helm & The RCO All Stars”

March 24, 2021 Alan Fitter 2

In a recent poll on this very website, The Band’s eponymous 1969 album was voted the top Americana album of all time – a deserved honour for a band who epitomises the genre with a body […]

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Classic Americana Albums: The Blasters “The Blasters”

March 17, 2021 Guy Lincoln 12

Today’s ‘classic album’ is ‘The Blasters‘ by The Blasters, a beacon of American music and a record that is as perfect an encapsulation of the collision between punk and roots as it is possible to imagine. […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Linda Ronstadt “Don’t Cry Now”

March 3, 2021 Tim Martin 1

By the time Linda Ronstadt was reaching the height of her fame in the mid-70s it was taken as read that the artist wrote their songs. So, it was a topic that interviewers brought up throughout […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Jackson Browne “Late for the Sky”

February 24, 2021 Rick Bayles 12

Trawling back through the Americana UK archives I was surprised to see how little mention this excellent album from Jackson Browne has received in recent years. Jackson Browne remains one of the great songwriters of Americana […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Justin Townes Earle “Harlem River Blues”

February 17, 2021 Russell Murphy 0

The painfully tragic passing of Justin Townes Earle in August last year due to an accidental drugs overdose brought the sad realisation that that was it for any new material from the mercurial JTE. We would […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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By the time the frost hits the pumpkin, as the saying goes (and no that’s not a euphemism) there typically is no shortage of new Christmas albums from the usual suspects singing, for the most part, […]

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The church has a profound effect on some people. For BC Camplight it drove him to greet his audience with a handshake at the south porch as they left. Earlier I wasn’t too sure Camplight was an […]

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