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Book Review: Tim Newby “Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Driving Sound & Its Legacy”

October 21, 2021 Rick Bayles 3

This is the “new” book from Americana-UK’s very own Tim Newby. Those of you who read Tim’s regular column, ‘Americana Roots’ will already know he’s something of an authority on America’s bluegrass scene. In fact, Tim […]

Book Review – Larry Starr “Listening to Bob Dylan”

October 12, 2021 Rick Bayles 0

My first reaction to this book was that it seemed a bit of a high-handed approach to Dylan and his music. Why would I need someone to tell me how to listen to Dylan?! Then I […]

Paperback Riders: William Least Heat-Moon “Blue Highways”

September 23, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 2

An influential if at times flawed travelogue from the late 1970s. When I was about ten I went to see ‘Born Free’ with a friend. This involved walking from Thornhill down to Low Mill along the […]

Book Review: Ralph Brookfield “On the Trail of Americana Music”

September 15, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 1

A laudable stab at the difficult task of grasping the many-headed beast that is Americana Music. Author Ralph Brookfield trained as a molecular physicist worked as a copy editor, software engineer, freelance writer, ran a software […]

Book Review: Stephen Deusner “Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers”

September 10, 2021 Tim Martin 1

First full-length book on this quintessentially southern band. As my colleague, and our Books Editor, Rick Bayles, noted last month, there seems to be a trend towards quite academic writing about music. This may be as […]