Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist
Since dropping out of her drama scholarship at the University of North Carolina and drawn by the songs of Seeger, Dylan and Baez to play the coffee shops of Greenwich Village during the 1960s folk boom, […]
Willie Nile is such an accomplished musician it’s a crime he’s not been more successful. Over the course of 20 albums since his 1980 debut, he’s consistently written songs that are his trademark – ringing guitars, […]
When it came time for me to choose a new subject for ‘Essentials’, I could lie and say I had an epiphany or picked an artist I’d been long-gestating, but in actual fact, I saw that […]
Richie Havens was the real deal, a singer with a great voice, a distinctive guitar player with a truly destructive power – rare would be the gig that passed without at least one busted string, a […]
For over fifty years, Nils Lofgren has been astonishing audiences with his magical wizardry on the guitar. At the age of just nineteen, he was a key contributor to Neil Young’s classic ‘After the Gold Rush’ and this […]
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