Features
VERSIONS: “Ol’ 55”
Welcome back to our popular VERSIONS feature. For those of you not familiar with it, the idea is that our writers pick a great song and then as well as presenting readers with the original version, […]
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Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Neil Young “Heart of Gold” – BBC Studios, 1971
“Americana? Isn’t he really a rock guy?” some of you might say. Sure, some of the time, maybe most of the time. But when he sat down in the BBC’s Radio Theatre studio way back in […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Jim Ford “Harlan County”
A template for americana from the musical earthquake year of 1969. Anyone who has any form of interest in americana will also be fully aware of the challenges of coming to a consensus on what constitutes […]
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More People Really Should Know About: The Deslondes
As the gist of this column is to raise the awareness of acts who provide quality music but aren’t especially lauded I reckoned that The Deslondes, a five-piece outfit from New Orleans fitted the bill. To […]
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: one of the most emotionally raw songs ever written, “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
So we finished a fascinating chain in the last piece with Shirley Collins and ‘Adieu To All Judges and Juries’. So, there were two routes to potentially go to follow that track – ‘legal’ or ‘au […]