Features
Dream Team Double Header – Judy Collins & Wizz Jones
Randomness – it can be a great thing. To hit town and find a favourite artist is playing that night, to stoop down and pick up a £50 note blowing along an empty street, to… well […]
Features
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: John Prine “In Spite of Ourselves”
In spite of throat surgery – one of the all-time greatest collaborative albums. In April 2020, the americana community on both sides of the Atlantic was saddened by the news that at age 73, John Prine […]
Features
Small Venue Heroes: Adam Killip
Adam Killip is known to most as the singer and frontman with South London country band The Tailors, releasing several excellent and acclaimed Anglo-Americana albums in the early 2000s. Although Killip has been in self confessed […]
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Chris Hillman ups the country quotient of “Wheels” with the Desert Rose Band in 1984
This week’s Classic Clip is a little piece of history with Chris Hillman revisiting one of his classic tracks with his then very new band, The Desert Rose Band. Chris Hillman is now recognised as one […]
Obituaries
The Song Remains: Ronnie Hawkins 1935 – 2022
Americana would not be the genre we have today without “The Hawk”. Legendary is an oft-misused term, particularly when applied to musicians, but it fits perfectly with Ronnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, a musician who was born […]