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Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist

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Essentials: The top 10 Wilco/Jeff Tweedy albums

July 15, 2021 Rich Orpin 1

Wilco’s rise to becoming one of America’s greatest rock bands of the 21st century has been anything but straightforward. Multiple line-up changes – some acrimonious and bitter – rejection by major labels and addiction have all […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 Rick Bayles 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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Essentials: The top 10 ‘Paisley Underground’ albums

July 1, 2021 Guy Lincoln 6

Time was when we used to have ‘scenes’ to belong to. ‘Scenes’ we could relate to, which reflected who we thought we were, or at least who we wanted to be and ‘scenes’ that made us […]

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Essentials: The top ten Howe Gelb albums

June 24, 2021 Paul Kerr 3

When we started this ‘Essentials’ series we stated we would be delving into the back catalogue of prominent Americana artists and bringing you our estimation of either their top ten albums or their top ten tracks. […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Palace tracks before Will Oldham became Bonnie Prince Billy

June 17, 2021 David Cowling 0

I thought it best to start at the genesis of BPB through the various guises and before BPB became the nom de plume de jour. I would find it impossible to tease out the 10 best […]

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Something For The Weekend: Bruce Springsteen “Streets Of Minneapolis”

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Artwork for Sammy Brue's "The Journals" album

Sammy Brue “The Journals”

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January 30, 2026 1

Classic Clips: Jeff Buckley “Grace” – Live at MTV New York for 120 Minutes, 1995

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  • Something For The Weekend: Bruce Springsteen “Streets Of Minneapolis”
  • Sammy Brue “The Journals”
  • Classic Clips: Jeff Buckley “Grace” – Live at MTV New York for 120 Minutes, 1995
  • Cambridge Folk Festival announces second tranche of acts as well as day splits
  • Latest Podcast now live featuring Wesley Stace
  • Old Sap “February Blues” – arriving this weekend
  • Video: Sounding Arrow “Zero Gravity” – leaving the earth forever
  • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Jonathan Aird
  • After too long, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter return to UK/Europe for April tour
  • Cowboy Junkies saddle up for UK Tour to “Celebrate 40 Years And Beyond”
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Interview: Bernie Leadon Too Late to Be Cool? No way!

January 21, 2026 0

When pigs can fly and cows jump over the moon …. when hell freezes over …. when an NBA player gets called for “palming the ball” …. when George Costanza picks up a check … when […]

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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

January 13, 2026 0

“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 1

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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