Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist
Billy Joe Shaver is one of a particular brand of people that seem to populate americana music; a legend within the genre, but virtually unknown outside of it. One measure of the esteem in which he […]
This week’s Essentials considers some homegrown americana talent. My Darling Clementine, who are husband and wife Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish, are from Southport and Birmingham respectively. They started recording together after 10 years of […]
Americana music is like the Mississippi, a mighty current constantly shifted by influences great and small. One of the musical streams that altered the flow of americana is the tumbling turbulence that bubbled up from the […]
It’s now nearly 42 years since Harold Forster Chapin died in a horrific car crash on the Long Island Expressway when his tiny 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit collided with an enormous semi-trailer truck. Better known of course […]
Back on the 12th August 2022 I opened an e-mail from Gretchen Peters as many would have done across the country that morning with the single word headline ‘Announcement’. Intrigued I quickly proceeded to cast my […]
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