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Charlotte Le Lievre “Songs From the Barrier Line”

April 24, 2023 David Jarman 0
Australian outback-inspired songs with traditional country and Americana stylings on debut album. Americana with Australian roots is an uncommon feature in American UK reviews, but ‘Songs From the Barrier Line’, the debut release from Charlotte Le […]
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Dan Montgomery “Cast Iron Songs and Torch Ballads”

April 24, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0
Troubadour cranks up the volume for raucous 7th. ‘Cast Iron Songs and Torch Ballads‘ is Memphis native Dan Montgomery’s 7th album in a music-making career of 20-plus years. It’s a pretty straight-ahead blue-collar roots rockin’ record, […]
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Dan Whitaker “I Won’t Play By Your Rules”

April 24, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0
Vintage Americana sounds by seasoned songwriter. With 13 albums already under his belt, the arrival of Dan Whitaker’s 14th also marks the transition from his long-time home of Chicago to Austin, Texas, a place he describes […]
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Lynn Hazelton “Chasing Dragonflies”

April 21, 2023 Jim Finnie 0
High quality, country tinged, Australian Americana. There is a lot of great Americana emanating from Australia and sadly much of it flies under the radar internationally.  Take Lynn Hazelton for example, ‘Chasing Dragonflies’ is her 4th […]
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William Prince “Stand in the Joy”

April 21, 2023 Helen Jones 0
An exceptionally well crafted outing from William Prince, the masterful production being the cherry on top of an already delicious cake. If there is one producer’s name that’s sure to quicken the heart of any Americana […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show

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The Old Crow Medicine Show have been entertaining us throughout the 21st century. Led from the outset by the irrepressible Ketch Secor, they have cycled through some 17 members over that time, including such luminaries of […]
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Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

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Dude Cervantes and The Panchos follow up last year’s live record with their second album: a carefully considered studio effort that blends that live energy with focused instrumental and engineering maturity. Billion Dollar Art comes out […]
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Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album

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Rainbow Body is a new musical collaboration featuring Taylor Goldsmith and Griff Goldsmith (Dawes), Rick Mitarotonda (Goose), Eric Krasno (Lettuce, Soulive), Ross James (Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band), and Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, […]

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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

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The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Morgan Wade announces UK and European tour dates

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Wade across the water. Alternative country act Morgan Wade has announced the UK & European leg of her Obsessed world tour for March 2025. The tour is currently running right across North America for the next […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Great Speckled Bird “Great Speckled Bird”

March 23, 2023 2
Until the ‘Festival Express’ movie was finally released on DVD in 2004, Ian and Sylvia Tyson’s band, Great Speckled Bird, had been an act known mainly by collectors and as the group Buddy Cage left to […]
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Amy Grant “The 6th Of January (Yasgur’s Farm)” – searching for a united, optimistic, progressive nation

January 12, 2026 0
This single is the first new music from Amy Grant, a Six-time GRAMMY Winner and recent Kennedy Center Honoree, in a decade.  It’s a song that reflects on the progressive optimism of the 1960s and wonders […]

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