For those people in the know, any suggestion that Michael Martin Murphey would make a perfect candidate for our ‘More People Really Should Know About’ feature would be seen as nothing short of insulting and ignorant. […]
Rather than the usual sources of record collection, shows or something recently read it was just by taking in the turn of the season that provided the inspiration for this week’s piece. From The Mastersons’s eponymous […]
When you say you’re an Americana fan, after trying to explain to people that it’s kind-of-like-country-music but not, you then face the immediate judgement from people that the genre and its fans is made up of […]
A few songs are responsible for my love of Americana. I talked about ‘Hot Burrito #1‘ back in our Versions series in 2021, but as my journey into the genre is very much Byrds-related, this is […]
‘Rednecks’ was the opening song on Randy Newman’s 1974 album “Good Old Boys” and it was the initial kernel which inspired Newman’s examination of the American South on the disc. When it was released, the song […]
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