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Essentials: The Top 10 Americana songs about America

October 14, 2025 Tim Martin 13

Our writers continue to deliver articles for this popular Feature on an occasional basis. This week Tim Martin has an interesting take on the series. Americana as a genre spends a fair bit of time exploring […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Songs from Season Two of “The Bear”

September 11, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

There was an Essentials feature on season 1 of Hulu’s hit TV series “The Bear” posted back in June (2025). Much has changed leading into season 2. Picking up seemingly days after the first season’s end, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Iris DeMent Songs

August 14, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 8

Iris Luella DeMent was born in Arkansas in 1961, the youngest of 14 children in a Pentecostal family. Her cotton farming parents were both musical. Her father, Pat, was a fiddle player who performed at dances, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Peter Rowan songs

August 7, 2025 Tim Martin 3

Having recently reviewed Peter Rowan’s latest album “Tales of the Free Mexican Air Force“, which is, at least partly, a musing on some of his career high points, I found that I didn’t know that calling […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs

July 31, 2025 Peter Thompson 6

Counting Crows came into being in 1991 in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1993, the band’s debut album, “August and Everything After“, off the back of the breakthrough single ‘Mr. Jones’, the album sold in […]