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Essentials: The Top Ten Will Kimbrough Songs

November 28, 2024 Paul Russell 5
Will Kimbrough is the real deal. A masterful singer-songwriter who has been recording a wide range of music since his debut band The Bis-Quits recorded their 1993 album on John Prine’s Oh Boy label. That band […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Nanci Griffith Albums

November 21, 2024 Clint West 5
Over the course of her career Nanci Griffith recorded 18 studio albums and 2 live albums. There were a couple of disappointments in amongst those but nowhere near enough to make this a straightforward task. Having […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Americana Songs of 2014

November 14, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
In 2024 there have been several 10, 20, 25, 30 even 50th anniversary albums reissued, remastered, revamped, remixed, revitalized, reconstituted, redeemed, re-recorded and finally released. It has renewed our faith in the music industry’s capacity to […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Kasey Chambers Songs

October 17, 2024 FredArnold 3
Kasey Chambers flies well below the radar of most American fans of this genre, and it is probably the same with UK listeners – she is a very niche listen. The reason is simple. For a […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Laura Marling Songs

October 3, 2024 Peter Thompson 2
Surely one of the best singer-songwriters of her generation, four time Mercury Music Prize nominee Laura Marling just goes from strength to strength. As we await the release of Marling’s eighth solo studio album “Patterns in […]

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Something for the weekend: Great Lakes “Why Did My Love Go Away?”

September 4, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a track from the new album by Great Lakes, Fear of the Fear, a band we have been big fans of […]
Album Reviews

Keyside “Keyside”

September 4, 2026 0
A catchy, guitar-led debut where jangly hooks and catchy choruses carry stories of lives lived close to the edge. There is something immediately familiar about Keyside, the debut album from Liverpool four-piece Keyside. Jangly guitars and […]
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Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

September 4, 2026 0
Growing up, I loved to watch the television show The Monkees, though looking back, I figure I wasn’t watching the episodes as they first aired, but re-runs. There were only two series of the show, though […]

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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Rosanne Cash and John Paul White join forces for “We’re All In This Together”

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John Paul White has teamed up with Rosanne Cash for the song ‘We’re All in This Together Now’ the melody for which was originally written by White for a now eerily prophetic set of lyrics which Cash […]
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Jim McCulloch “When I Mean What I Say”

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A veritable garden of delights. Fairly hot on the heels of Jim McCulloch’s last release, the wonderful update of sixties folk-rock which was Snowgoose’s second album, the Motherwell born artist mines another cultural seam, this time, […]
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Andrew Hibbard “Andrew Hibbard” (Sofaburn Records 2020)

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This self-titled offering is Andrew Hibbard’s third album, following on from ‘Foot in the Door’ from 2012 and ‘Under the Knife’ from 2015.  The first was made when he was 17 so we can assume that he […]

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