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Classic Clips: Kathleen Edwards “The Cheapest Key” Live on Late Night with David Letterman, 2008

November 5, 2021 Helen Jones 0

As an Americana fan, it can be a pretty rare occurrence to get to see an artist you love on your non-internet-connected television set, so I was pretty excited back in 2008 to be able to […]

Essentials: The top 10 Townes Van Zandt songs

November 4, 2021 Tim Newby 2

Townes Van Zandt is one of the most criminally overlooked songwriters of the last fifty years. His life in a snapshot is simple and scary. Born to a wealthy Texas family, he left to pursue music, […]

A Night to Remember: The Unknown Singer – The Claichaig Inn somewhere in the 80’s

November 4, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 2

The true sense of community singing. Great musical nights are a function of many things so if you have had a hard days walking, something to eat and a few beers then you are likely to […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Flying Burrito Brothers “The Gilded Palace of Sin”

November 3, 2021 Rich Orpin 4

It’s been a couple of months since Jim Finnie’s wonderful article on ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’, in which he acknowledges a debt to Martin Johnson’s excellent piece on ‘Ballad of Easy Rider’. What better excuse than […]

A Night To Remember: Townes Van Zandt – The Hop & Grape, Manchester, December 9th 1994

November 2, 2021 Clint West 1

A rambling, shambling Townes talks a lot, tells long jokes and occasionally sings a song. You don’t always get to see your heroes, or sometimes they become your heroes too late. I never got to see […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Bruce Springsteen “Letter to You” (Columbia, 2020)

October 26, 2020 5

The arrival of a new Springsteen album is always a much-anticipated event. However, the news that this particular release was to feature the full E-Street Band and that it had been recorded live in the studio […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Stephen Jacques “Fragrant Flowers”

July 23, 2025 0

‘Fragrant Flowers‘ is the opening cut of Stephen Jacques’ latest album “Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers”, which is a concept album about covering the 19th-century Western migration, frontier wagon train plight, gunfights, saloons, Native American reality, miscreants, […]

Album Reviews

William Wallace “Lighthouse Keeper”

July 20, 2023 1

An impressive debut album of songs that no one else has thought to write. Austin TX singer-songwriter William Wallace’s first album opens with ‘The Stars My Destination’ which shares a title with the classic sci-fi novel […]

Classic Clips: Kathleen Edwards “The Cheapest Key” Live on Late Night with David Letterman, 2008

Essentials: The top 10 Townes Van Zandt songs

A Night to Remember: The Unknown Singer – The Claichaig Inn somewhere in the 80’s

Classic Americana Albums: The Flying Burrito Brothers “The Gilded Palace of Sin”

A Night To Remember: Townes Van Zandt – The Hop & Grape, Manchester, December 9th 1994

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”