Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist
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 […]
Born in Hastings, John Wesley Harding, otherwise known as Wesley Harding Stace, took the name of the famous American outlaw, celebrated and misspelt by Bob Dylan, when he began performing in 1988. He adopted the alias, […]
Mary Gauthier needs no introduction to regular readers and fans of all things americana, having over the last twenty five years confirmed herself as one of the finest songwriters of the genre, respected and loved as […]
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