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Classic Americana Albums: Johnny Cash “At San Quentin”

September 14, 2023 Cam Fraser 2
I can’t tell you exactly when I first heard this album, but I can tell you exactly where I was – in Fraser Park in Inverness with a couple of friends, huddled around a little portable […]
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Dream Team Double Header – Darlingside and Robert Plant

September 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Well, this is Songkick’s suggestion for a great night out with two artists vying for the top spot on the billing. It might look like an odd pairing – Darlingside being the complete masters of vocal […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Tyler Lance Walker Gill

September 12, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0
Tyler Lance Walker Gill is a self-proclaimed ‘song singer, drink slinger’ of indeterminate age. He was born in Bullitt County Kentucky and currently works out of Louisville, which is all of 22.7 miles away from his […]
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Americana Vinyl Treasures: Steve Goodman “Steve Goodman” – Buddha Records, 1971

September 11, 2023 Rick Bayles 2
Back in the early 1990s, I made a decision that still has me waking up in a cold sweat from time to time; I sold my vinyl collection! It was, in retrospect, a decision of monumental […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Erika Jonsson “Queen of the Highway”

September 11, 2023 Jonathan Smith 1
Following on from the Drive-By Truckers, here’s a song featuring a whole load of real-life truckers. Erika Jonsson is a full-fledged americana star in her native Sweden, and is currently augmenting her living in the tricky […]

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Video: The Hanging Stars “All Your Yesterdays” – the now we always take for granted

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Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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Abigail Lapell “Shadow Child”

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Video: The Hanging Stars “All Your Yesterdays” – the now we always take for granted

May 21, 2026 0
The Hanging Stars’ new single, All Your Yesterdays, is a perfect example of the band’s gorgeous, timeless sound and songcraft. Bursting with harmonies, lush twelve-string guitar and bright sun-shining jangle, All Your Yesterdays positively shimmers with […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Little Feat after Lowell George

May 20, 2026 4
I’ve gone on record as proclaiming Waiting For Columbus one of the best live albums in the universe, so I took a long time to reconcile myself to the fact that the band had a life […]
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Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

May 20, 2026 0
Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Catch Ethan Johns & the Black Eyed Dogs before they run away

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Ethan Johns continues a brief residency with his band, the Black Eyed Dogs, at the Servant Jazz Quarters in Dalston, East London next week, prior to the release of his new album ‘Anamnesis’ which is due […]
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Long Ryders say “Run Dusty Run” – European dates announced

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Seminal Americana band, the Buffalo Springfield cum Byrds of the Eighties, and very much The Long Ryders of the 21st Century, have announced their imminent European tour – which includes a good handful of UK dates. 
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Americana A – Z: Chris Whitley

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Chris Whitley’s itinerant childhood in the southern states seemed to be reflected in his restless musical output, a determined musical quest that often meant the last album was not necessarily a guide to the next and […]

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