Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist
As great as a songwriter Brandy Clark is for others, It’s a stark reminder of the cruelty of the Nashville machine that she almost didn’t pursue a career as a solo artist at all: when she […]
Somebody once told Erin Enderlin that she wrote sad bastard country music. She was delighted. There’s a Felice Brothers song with the lines “I put some whiskey in my whiskey/ I put some heartache into my […]
Lean in close, don’t tell anyone, but the ’80s is my favourite Bob Dylan decade. How can this be, you ask? (Or is that me asking myself?) This generally accepted decade of decline, which included scattershot […]
Many of you will be used to seeing Elvis Costello watching the detectives, refusing to go to Chelsea or joining Oliver’s Army but in 1981 Costello released the album ‘Almost Blue’, an album of country music, […]
For what is now over six decades, the songs of Jackson Browne have become synonymous with the U.S. West Coast, in particular Los Angeles, his album’s a soundtrack for a post-war generation with a voracious appetite […]
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