Honestly I get it, I really do. I love a list as much as anybody and probably more than most. I still scour old NME, Select, Skyscraper, Shindig and Paste magazines to read annual best of […]
The UK may have missed out on Shilough Hopwood’s music. Americana UK guest writer Paul Harding shares his great sadness that he recently heard of the passing of Shilough Hopwood, the leader and songwriter for the […]
When you can assemble a band that includes Jerry Douglas, Bill Frisell, drummer Steve Jordan (Charlie Watts chosen successor in The Rolling Stones) and Alison Krauss, even if the latter is your sister, then you must […]
The song that really got me listening to Dylan, rather than just hearing him as background radio listening was his story of the imprisonment of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter for murder. An unusual song in Dylan’s canon, […]
I must admit I was taken aback when I chose to write about this disc and found out that it was released in 1979, several years later than I recalled, thinking I’d bought it in the […]
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