Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist
There’s no doubt that Warren Zevon merits consideration as one of the major artists to have emerged from the L.A. scene of the mid-seventies. His first two releases on Asylum Records were laden with luminaries such […]
It’s interesting that, in recent years, Richard Thompson, as quintessentially a British folk-rocker as you could hope to find, increasingly crops up in americana listings and charts. Of course, he’s lived in the U.S. pretty much […]
This week marks the welcome return of ‘Essentials’ the series in which we ask our writers to select either their Top 10 albums or Top 10 songs from a single artist or group of related artists. […]
Townes Van Zandt is one of the most criminally overlooked songwriters of the last fifty years. His life in a snapshot is simple and scary. Born to a wealthy Texas family, he left to pursue music, […]
According to an article on savingcountrymusic.com, back in the early noughties Houston-born singer-songwriter Hayes Carll was hailed as a potential successor of Townes Van Zandt “in Texas and beyond.” And now, twenty years on, some of […]
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