Americana UK looks at different versions of classic americana songs
Possibly the ultimate trucking song, with its always memorable chorus: “And I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made Driven the backroads so I wouldn’t get […]
Unusually Townes Van Zandt’s ‘White Freightliner Blues’ first appeared on his ‘Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas’ album. So, in that same spirit I have chosen three live covers to feature on top of the […]
Martin Johnson recently ranked Guy Clark at the top of his greatest ever americana artists list. The next available evening found me playing my favourite Guy Clark song and watching the documentary ‘Heartworn Highways’. And going […]
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, […]
It is, of course, one of Dylan’s greatest songs, layered in mystery and shot through with Scarlet Rivera’s violin. One of the jewels from that gem encrusted bangle that is ‘Desire.’ It’s a love song, it’s […]
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