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Anna Tivel “Living Thing”

June 12, 2024 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

On ‘Living Thing,’ Oregon’s Anna Tivel demonstrates her worthiness of high praise. Sometimes, as soon as a few first notes of an album’s opening track reach your ears you realize that the artist in question is […]

Nichole Wagner “Plastic Flowers”

June 11, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0

A study in self-awareness and vulnerability from folk to power pop. The gentle folk to power pop and rock all dusted with a sprinkling of Americana that runs through this record reflects Nichole Wagner’s career to […]

Eric Shroeder “Turned On The Stereo”

June 11, 2024 Michael Macy 0

An album to be grateful for from an exciting young singer-songwriter. ‘Turned On The Stereo’ is Eric Schroeder’s fourth album in four years and he is…22. And these are all albums of original songs. Schroeder is […]

Richard Thompson “Ship To Shore”

June 10, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

Never resting on his laurels, Richard Thompson remains as vital as ever. We reckon that a new album from Richard Thompson, surely regarded these days, by most, as one of the UK’s premier songwriters and performers […]

Dana Cooper “Ghost of Tucumcari”

June 10, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0

Celebrating a half-century of songwriting. Mention Tucumcari in a musical context and the next two words very often will be “Lowell” and “George” such is the resonance of his ‘Willin’. If Dana Cooper does not present […]

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The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey

March 12, 2026 0

The devil may have all the best tunes but six months and many songs down the line from this feature’s inaugural selection, the erudition and impeccable taste of my esteemed colleagues mean that many of the […]

Artwork for John Hollier & The Reverie album "Rainmaker".

John Hollier & The Rêverie “Rainmaker”

March 12, 2026 0

Strong passionate songs from a band on the rise. John Hollier was raised on a crawfish farm in Louisiana, which tells you where his musical roots lie. He and his touring band of Teddy Thibedoux Jones […]

“I’ll Take You There” documentary premieres today on YouTube

March 12, 2026 0

Alabama’s Musical and Civil Rights legacy takes centre stage in a brand new documentary film entitled I’ll Take You There: Discovering the Sound of Alabama, which premieres today at 8 pm GMT on YouTube. The cast […]

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 0

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

Steve Grozier “All That’s Been Lost”

May 13, 2021 0

A talent realised with a set of songs that demand repeated playing. The distant pedal steel that opens ‘Twenty-Third Street’, the first song on ‘All That’s Been Lost’ drops you instantly in the prairie, but it’s […]

Album Reviews

Laith “Lightning”

June 1, 2023 1

Tales of Texas and beyond. ‘Lightning‘ is singer-songwriter Laith’s debut album. It’s one that takes the listener on a journey across America from L.A. to Texas via New Orleans and Colorado. Throughout it has the relaxed […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Jerome Forde “Marigold”

April 17, 2023 0

Here’s the gorgeous new single from Jerome Forde. Beginning with just warm finger-picked notes and Forde’s echoing, ethereal voice, ‘Marigold’ feels like a melodic journey into memory. A minute into the ‘Marigold’, additional instrumentation and a […]