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Interview : Don Gallardo on surviving COVID and writing his lockdown album

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Nashville’s Don Gallardo was almost an honorary European for a time as his last tour coincided with the first lockdown. If Don Gallardo has kept a diary of his plague year, it certainly has a riveting […]
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Interview: Emily Duff explains her razor blade smile

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How a New York City attitude was mixed with southern country soul. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Emily Duff is a New Yorker born and bred, but it is the music of the American South that has touched […]
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Interview: John Milward talks about his new book ‘Americanaland – Where Country & Western met Rock ’n’ Roll’

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Americana has existed all along. For some of the most respected US newspaper titles to the specialist music press over forty years John Milward has written about all the musical strands that make up what we […]
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Interview: James McMurtry discusses new album The Horses and The Hounds

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How being  ‘Kings of Middle of Nowhere’ helped inspire his latest album. When the time finally comes that we can look back on the pandemic, musical historians may well note that it proved fertile terrain for […]
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Interview: Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin on LA’s native sons, WAR, and how to last forty-years as a band

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How a stop-gap album became a statement on Los Lobos’ musical DNA thanks to COVID. For nearly fifty years Los Lobos have been one of the great curators and stewards of American music, digging deep into […]

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In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurrah For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]
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first thoughts José González is a Swedish indie-folk singer – with, naturally, the usual background in hardcore punk influenced by Black Flag and choral singing – Against The Dying Of The Light is his fifth album, […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Johnny Cash, when asked why he always wore black, wrote this song in response. Here he sings it for the first time on his own TV show. There were some very memorable performances on the Johnny […]
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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Short

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Asking someone to list an all-time top ten of anything can be difficult. It is a personal choice, and what one individual loves, others don’t care for. For this assignment, it is the “Top 10 Americana […]
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