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Essentials: The Top 10 Richie Havens Albums

January 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 5

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 […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Nils Lofgren songs

December 22, 2022 Andrew Frolish 10

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 […]

Essentials: The top 10 John Wesley Harding / Wesley Stace albums

December 15, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 0

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, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Mary Gauthier Songs

December 8, 2022 Graeme Tait 4

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 […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Warren Zevon Songs

December 1, 2022 Paul Kerr 5

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 […]