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Classic Americana Album: Roseanne Cash “King’s Record Shop”

April 12, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

The 80s wasn’t a great period for classic americana albums. The fashion at the time dictated that many albums were overproduced and featured lots of synthesisers and effects and these are not styles that suit roots-based […]

Classic Americana Albums: JD Souther “John David Souther”

April 5, 2023 Tim Martin 2

Souther is probably better known as a songwriter rather than an artist in his own right. He co-wrote some of The Eagles best known songs including ‘Best of My Love’, ‘Heartache Tonight’, and ‘New Kid in […]

Turnpike Troubadours "Diamonds & Gasoline"

Classic Americana Albums: Turnpike Troubadours “Diamonds and Gasoline”

March 29, 2023 Andy Davidson 4

There’s a growing expectation that the Turnpike Troubadours are going to release a new album soon. It has certainly been a while since ‘A Long Way From Your Heart’ in 2017. Long before the band’s reboot, […]

Classic Americana Albums: Great Speckled Bird “Great Speckled Bird”

March 23, 2023 Richard Parkinson 2

Until the ‘Festival Express’ movie was finally released on DVD in 2004, Ian and Sylvia Tyson’s band, Great Speckled Bird, had been an act known mainly by collectors and as the group Buddy Cage left to […]

Classic Americana Albums: Drive-By Truckers “The Dirty South”

March 15, 2023 Andy Davidson 3

From 2001 up until 2005 the Drive-By Truckers were a huge, powerful and overwhelming force. A juggernaut. They aggressively, yet eloquently gave a voice to the blue collar South. People at the whim of capitalist forces […]