Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist
Carl Perkins didn’t have Elvis’s voice and looks. He didn’t have Johnny Cash’s dark pathos. He didn’t have Jerry Lee’s barely contained lunacy. As Sun Records legends go, he was plain-looking, balding and ordinary sounding. However, […]
Jon Langford has lived in Chicago for the last thirty or so years, but is originally from Newport in South Wales. When I interviewed Jon over the phone – that’s a bit like Zoom but without […]
If anyone ever invented a time machine (unlikely, if not impossible but I can dream can’t I?) there are a lot of times and places I’d go back to but Laurel Canyon any time between 1967 […]
Dave Alvin is a multi-faceted, multi-talented cornerstone of americana. As a singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer he has consistently excelled to the point where anything bearing his name, in whatever role, is usually a cast-iron guarantee of […]
The New Rhythm and Blues Quartet (originally Quintet), NRBQ or simply just The Q, if you haven’t heard of them, and worse still, haven’t heard any of their music and are a lover of good music […]
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