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Continental Shift 6. Netherlands

January 23, 2025 Rick Bayles 4

This is our sixth and final article in this series about European americana and we’ve arrived in the Netherlands, probably the most established americana market in continental Europe. Looking back over the other articles, there are […]

Continental Shift 5. Italy

January 8, 2025 Rick Bayles 2

Alt. Country is alive and well and sunning itself in Italy. If you’re going to write about americana music in Italy the logical place to start is with Stefano ‘Stiv’ Cantarelli and his great band, Satellite […]

Continental Shift 4. Germany

December 12, 2024 Rick Bayles 5

Americana in one of Europe’s largest music markets. We’re now into the second half of this series and it marks a move away from those countries where americana music is quite marginalised to a set of […]

Continental Shift: 3. France

November 28, 2024 Rick Bayles 2

Home territory for me and the enigma that is France. On paper, France should be a major territory for americana. Americana is often spoken about as being a continuation of the Troubadour tradition and France is […]

Continental Shift: 2. Finland

November 14, 2024 Rick Bayles 3

The second of our European countries and we’re heading north, to a place with more than 180,000 lakes! When I told Americana UK colleague, Martin Johnson, that I was working on this series he suggested that […]