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Classic Americana Albums: Robbie Fulks ‘”Country Love Songs” (Bloodshot, 1996)

April 3, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

It’s late July 2019 and my latest Bloodshot records update drops through the electronic mailbox. My excitement is palpable. Finally, after 23 years, one of the finest records ever to pass through my CD laser beams […]

Classic Americana Compilations: “Tulare Dust – A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard” (Hightown Records, 1994)

March 27, 2020 Rick Bayles 1

Merle Haggard has always been categorised as one of the great American Country Singers but, when it comes to songwriting, his talents are often overlooked. So, when a bunch of top Americana singers and songwriters came […]

Classic Americana Albums: Lyle Lovett “Pontiac” (MCA/Curb, 1987)

March 24, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 2

I am sure it is an apocryphal and familiar story, but it does have a point regarding Lovett’s surprising union with Julia Roberts. There was speculation about how the one might manage to live with the […]

Classic Americana Albums: Chris Stapleton “From A Room: Volume 2” (Mercury Nashville, 2017)

March 17, 2020 Ewan Lury 0

When I was asked to write a review about a classic Americana album, I myself had one main issue. As someone who is only 19 and who really found their way into Americana music through country […]

Classic Americana Albums: Woody Guthrie “Dust Bowl Ballads” (Victor Records, 1940)

March 10, 2020 Emily Dongray 0

Celebrating its whopping 80th birthday this year, Dust Bowl Ballads remains a prescient and relevant piece of musical reportage and remarkably unique. Woody Guthrie hailed from Oklahoma, settled in Texas, but made his mark in New […]

My Girl The River “Manifest Good Things”

September 3, 2026 0

Melody and heartfelt ruminations on family, life and love combine to winning effect on a timeless album. My Girl The River sees Kris Wilkinson Hughes collaborating with husband Joe and daughter Rue, and this wonderfully honest […]

Pieta Brown and Bo Ramsey Temecula March 2010

Classic Clip: Pieta Brown with Bo Ramsey “Bad News” – venue unknown, 2010

September 3, 2026 0

Pieta Brown (53) is the daughter of beloved folk singer-songwriter Greg Brown with whom she reunited after a rather bohemian lifestyle following her parents’ separation when she was 2 years old. At the time she was […]

Anniversary Cheers: case/lang/veirs celebrates 10 years

September 3, 2026 0

Outstanding one-off album is re-released together with an album of live tracks from the tour that accompanied the album, plus a new song (on vinyl and CD). case/lang/veirs was released in 2016. In keeping with the […]