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Behind the Songs: Chris Stamey “Anything Is Possible”

July 10, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey is an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history, starting in the mid-70s with Mitch Easter in the band Sneakers, then co-founding the avant-pop band The dBs […]
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Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

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It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]
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Interview: Swarme of Beese finds more poetry in darkness than in light

June 30, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
The term mutant folk seems to fit. In the band’s early days, before The Victor Mourning emerged from the pupa into an adult Swarme of Beese, their songs elicited unusual receptions. Co-songwriter Lynne Adele recalls performing […]
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Interview: Sean McConnell on taking a journey underneath the skin

June 26, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Looking at the cover artwork for Sean McConnell’s latest album “Skin” (Silent Desert Music, 2025), you might think he has a fixation on tattoos, what with the drawing of a hand covered in ink art from […]
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Interview: Counting Crows with Love from A(dam) to (durit)Z

June 23, 2025 Dean Nardi 2
It was thirty-two years ago when Adam Duritz of Counting Crows wrote a song about wanting to be famous, a rock ‘n’ roll star. He worried about being a one-hit wonder with ‘Mr. Jones’s, which of […]

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Classic Clip: Pieta Brown with Bo Ramsey “Bad News” – venue unknown, 2010

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Unearthed 1968 recording of Buck Owen and the Buckaroos to be released next month

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More than half a century after Buck Owens and the Buckaroos took the stage at Las Vegas’ Mint Hotel and Casino, a remarkable document of the band at the height of its powers is finally seeing […]
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My Girl The River “Manifest Good Things”

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Melody and heartfelt ruminations on family, life and love combine to winning effect on a timeless album. My Girl The River sees Kris Wilkinson Hughes collaborating with husband Joe and daughter Rue, and this wonderfully honest […]
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Classic Clip: Pieta Brown with Bo Ramsey “Bad News” – venue unknown, 2010

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Pieta Brown (53) is the daughter of beloved folk singer-songwriter Greg Brown with whom she reunited after a rather bohemian lifestyle following her parents’ separation when she was 2 years old. At the time she was […]

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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

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Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

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It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Songs telling personal stories and a performance that is stripped back and raw, providing a compelling listen. JD Graham is a singer-songwriter with quite a story to tell, and his new album, ‘A Pound Of Rust‘, […]

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