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Dallas Good And Richard Reed Parry “The Brightest Light” – an unexpected release

November 26, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s still hard to believe that Dallas Good died three years ago at the young age of 48, leaving a gaping hole in the Americana music scene.  Yep Roc will soon be releasing the last music […]
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The Lowest Pair “The Uncertain Seas” – setting out without delay

November 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’ll have been getting on for four years since there last studio album when the new collection of songs “Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be” is released next January.  In advance of the release comes […]
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Lucinda Williams “We’ve Come Too Far to Turn Around” – with Norah Jones

November 24, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
To be totally honest – and this isn’t the first time – it always comes as a bit of a surprise that we’re featuring Norah Jones, who adds piano and additional vocals on this latest song […]
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Jingle Bells Friday – do you hear what I hear?

November 21, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Starting up the beloved annual feature Jingle Bells Friday is a bit like christmas shopping in reverse.  When is too soon to start that shopping – or, and perhaps more meaningful and likely to be remembered […]
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Track Premiere: My Girl The River “Everywhere You Go”

November 21, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Everywhere You Go‘ is an undoubted love song about being flawed – but also devoted.  It finds My Girl The River hitting a west coast early 70s vibe with a ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’ organ sound […]

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Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”

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Something for the weekend: Here’s to Bob Harris

June 5, 2026 1
Well that’s it for this week dear reader. Don’t forget to get your tickets for our 25 year anniversary event if you haven’t yet – all the details are here. It’d be remiss of us to […]
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Teddy Thompson “Never Be The Same”

June 5, 2026 0
Guitar-based pop, done skilfully, with words reflecting life’s imperfections. Teddy Thompson, the son of British folk icons Richard and Linda Thompson, was born in the UK but now lives in Brooklyn. This is his tenth self-penned […]
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Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”

June 5, 2026 0
In March, we put out a request for short fiction written around the subject of americana. The first to answer our call was one of our favourite singer/songwriters, Dean Owens. He also appeared on our Podcast […]

  • Something for the weekend: Here’s to Bob Harris
  • Teddy Thompson “Never Be The Same”
  • Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”
  • Classic Clips: The Lost Gonzo Band with Jerry Jeff Walker and Gary P. Nunn “London Homesick Blues” – live from Texas Roadhouse, 1991
  • The Severed Limb “Skiffle in the Rain”
  • Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

June 5, 2026 1
Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]
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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

May 29, 2026 0
To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]

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Video Premiere: Drunken Hearts “New Reseda”

November 10, 2021 0
This is how Americana should be performed.  Singer-songwriter Andrew McConathy and his outstanding band Drunken Hearts have recorded a new video EP, ‘Wildfire Sessions’, which will be released one video at a time, beginning with ‘New […]
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Anthony Savino “Back Before The Fall”

August 16, 2021 0
LA-based songwriter waxes lyrical and sounds good in the process. On ‘Back Before the Fall’ Los Angeles based Anthony Savino sings about work and money, about the passing of time, the changes that time brings and […]
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The Highwomen perform with Dolly and Isbell – Watch

July 30, 2019 0
The Highwomen, if you haven’t heard, are a like a new up to date female version of the Highway Men (geddit?), the country supergroup from the 80s which included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and […]

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