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[ July 27, 2026 ] Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award News
[ July 27, 2026 ] Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream” Album Reviews
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AmericanA to Z – Dolly Parton

March 11, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0

No, not Gram Parsons. Not even Elvis Presley (though if you don’t consider Elvis to be the epitome of ‘Americana’ then I will fight you right now). Dolly Rebecca Parton (of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee) has written, […]

The ten worst Johnny Cash tracks

March 10, 2020 Mark Nenadic 3

Johnny Cash was a force of nature. There are not enough superlatives in the dictionary to do the man any kind of justice. J.R. was a magnificent songwriter. Just as magnificent, perhaps even more so, was […]

Classic Americana Albums: Woody Guthrie “Dust Bowl Ballads” (Victor Records, 1940)

March 10, 2020 Emily Dongray 0

Celebrating its whopping 80th birthday this year, Dust Bowl Ballads remains a prescient and relevant piece of musical reportage and remarkably unique. Woody Guthrie hailed from Oklahoma, settled in Texas, but made his mark in New […]

Forgotten Artists – The Hacienda Brothers

March 9, 2020 Martin Johnson 2

The Hacienda Brothers were heading for commercial success having built a growing live following and being nominated as Band Of The Year in the 2007 Americana Music Awards when their front man and co-founder Chris Gaffney […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Tift Merritt “Another Country”

March 9, 2020 Steven Howlett 0

Last week’s chain gang featured Jason Isbell which could have led on to something by the Drive-By Truckers, or maybe Drivin and Cryin, or maybe a dip into the wealth of talent produced by Dave Cobb. […]

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Cover art for Tucker Zimmerman album "Dream Me A Dream"

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0

Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0

Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]