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Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”

July 7, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Fine set of live archive recordings from the King of Bakersfield. “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974” is a 3-CD set of live recordings by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos stretching from […]

Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”

July 7, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Alt Country’s sunnier climes. Ed Soles is the guitarist for Bristol band Langkamer and “Cash Mountain” is his first solo project. On its final track, ‘Solus Soles Weekend Blues’, he laments, “I wrote this song, but […]

artwork for Susie Ungerleider album "Among the Evergreens"

Suzie Ungerleider “Among the Evergreens”

July 4, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

Past and present in the soundtrack of a lifetime. Memories often seem to gravitate around specific songs, which stick in your mind as some of the defining pieces of a particular time or place. They hide […]

Bluegrass Briefs: Bela Fleck, Mason Via, Sister Sadie, J.D. Crowe

July 4, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Bluegrass is a genre that has expanded to fit the ambitions of its practitioners in recent years. We’ve looked at Bela Fleck’s experiments with it in previous columns, but has stretched genre to breaking point with […]

Artwork for Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman album “Hearsay & Heresy”

Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman “Hearsay & Heresy”

July 4, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

Fancy some comfort food? This record from a radio DJ and a guitar tutor delivers it by the forkful. Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman are two members of the seven-piece americana band FineLines; Boardman being one […]

Sorrel Nation will release sophomore album next month

September 8, 2026 0

Following a breakthrough period that saw major festival appearances, BBC Radio support and the release of her debut album Lost En Route, singer-songwriter Sorrel Nation returns with her second album, Creeping Thyme. The record will be […]

Blaine Todd “Angle of Repose”

September 8, 2026 0

Quirky, gentle release from San Francisco Bay area songwriter and musician. Angle of Repose is the fifth album from Bay area Blaine Todd, a newcomer to our site, but a release with a resonance with many […]

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Stringer

September 8, 2026 0

There are, of course, countless reasons why we love attending gigs and feeding on the buzz that only live music can give. On the Americana circuit that we inhabit in these pages, often at smaller and […]

Buck Owens And His Buckaroos “Adios, Farewell, Goodbye, Good Luck, So Long: On Stage 1964-1974”

Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”

Suzie Ungerleider “Among the Evergreens”

Bluegrass Briefs: Bela Fleck, Mason Via, Sister Sadie, J.D. Crowe

Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman “Hearsay & Heresy”

Sorrel Nation will release sophomore album next month

Blaine Todd “Angle of Repose”

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Stringer

Live Review: The Felice Brothers, 100 Club, London – 2nd September 2026

Bloodkin “Flowers & Ash”