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Essentials: The Top 10 Donnie Fritts Songs

May 2, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Country soul is one of the great sub-genres of music and is a cornerstone of what subsequently became called americana, and it does what it says on the tin, it mixes country and soul music. What […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Buddy Miller songs

April 25, 2024 Peter Thompson 2

Buddy Miller; singer, guitar player, band leader, songwriter, producer, radio show host, collaborator extraordinaire… He’s a very busy chap. He is also influential; in addition to his own recorded output and playing shows, Miller has worked […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Josh Ritter Songs

April 18, 2024 Andrew Frolish 15

Josh Ritter is one of those artists who ticks every box: his vocals are smooth and warm, his words possess a rare poetic lyricism and his ability to craft and compose consistently beautiful songs is hugely […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Gillian Welch/David Rawlings songs

March 28, 2024 Tim Martin 5

There were a few surprise absences from our recent readers’ and writers’ polls to find the top 10 greatest ever americana artists. While, as with any vote, if we ran it again tomorrow the results would […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Cowpunk Albums

June 15, 2023 Guy Lincoln 6

We are here to talk about Cowpunk in the 1980s, but we’ll begin with a caveat. This is a totally personal take on the story of cowpunk. It’s my version of the history, of what cowpunk […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]