Some voices arrive like a hand on your shoulder. Bill Fay’s is one of them. “I had near/forgotten everything”, Fay sings, opening the song not with a confession, but with a kind of quiet exhale. ‘Filled […]
This much-loved and frequently covered song was written by Ian Tyson, one-half of Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia. Their early albums spawned several songs that have become classics, probably the best-known being ‘Four Strong Winds’, […]
With Ringo’s new country album, “Look Up”, grabbing plaudits from all and sundry, it seems timely to look at a Beatles’ track that came to be a bluegrass standard and helped in the development of country […]
Back in 2022, I wrote an article in the Essentials series on Ten Richard Thompson Albums for americana fans. Now, personally, I still consider the great Richard Thompson to be a singer-songwriter firmly fixed in the […]
This was not my intended choice for this feature. Rest assured, there have been many splendid eulogies following the death of Mike Peters, and I will not even try to compete. But since the news of […]
© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool