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Johnny 99 “Getting Over You” – learning to celebrate these seasons of our lives

August 15, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Johnny 99 melds Bakersfield and Laurel Canyon on his new single ‘Getting Over You’. Johnny 99 is the honky tonk pseudonym for John Sponarski, guitarist for City and Colour. The track features tasty dobro over brushed […]

Arthur Buck “Sleep With One Eye Open” – to be the protector

August 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Arthur Buck is the acclaimed musical partnership of singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and guitarist Peter Buck – and they have unveiled their much-anticipated second album the unbelievably imaginatively named , “Arthur Buck 2“. It will be available […]

Fruit Bats “Let You People Down” – wrestling with my angst

August 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

I think we can just waffle along a bit and then let you, favoured reader, hit the play button. Look – Eric D. Johnson is just one of our favourite Americana artists – an endless collaborator, […]

Greta Gaines “What Do You Want?” – transitioning when the kids leave

August 12, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Greta Gaines asks ‘What Do You Want?’, her first single from the new album “Bird Before Light”. The song and album were produced by Jim Reilley, mixed by Eric Fritsch and Mill Logan, and were recorded […]

Matt Patershuk “Cutlass Supreme” – not a pirate song

August 11, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

We like a good sub-text in a song, a message that is conveyed through the words of the song even though the song doesn’t actually state directly what it’s really about. And we’ve looked/listened quite hard […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tracks by the least likely suspects

July 23, 2026 1

Before you shout at me remember this is supposed to be fun…. I have opened up and bared my soul on a couple of occasions about my past as a teenage rocker in the 1970s, with […]

Ed Askew “The Last Painting”

July 23, 2026 0

Profound, moving and beautiful reveries on posthumous release from ‘Outsider Folk’ poet. Ed Askew was a New York artist, poet, songwriter and genuine underground legend. Having first broken through with his self-titled album in 1968 (subsequently […]

artwork for Conway Savage album "Too Dark To See"

Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”