Just recently, The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) awarded Mike Scott a UK Lifetime Achievement Award. Scott is the creator and front man of The Waterboys. The album ‘Fisherman’s Blues‘ was released in October 1988 […]
From Mary Chapin Carpenter’s most commercially successful album ‘Come On Come On’ comes the Grammy nominated ‘He Thinks He’ll Keep Her‘. Recorded at the 1993 CMA awards this classic comes complete with a very youthful looking […]
This week’s Classic Clip comes from the very first Farm Aid held back in 1985 and still going strong. It was organised by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young to help poor struggling small […]
It’s awards season and a staple part of many award ceremonies is one artist guesting with another and the end of show sing along. At the Americana Music Association’s Americanafest in 2014 the task of […]
Calexico started as a side project for Joey Burns and John Convertino. In the 1990s, the duo were better known as the rhythm section for Howe Gelb’s desert rock ensemble, Giant Sand. With the release […]
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