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Video: Miss Tess “Real Change”

July 9, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

The new single from Miss Tess, ‘Real change’, is effortlessly beautiful. Featuring the wonderful voices of Lindsay Lou and Rachael Davis in accompaniment to Miss Tess’s familiar weary vocal, the song is driven by a gentle […]

Video: Axel Flóvent “Give In” (featuring Ciaran Lavery)

July 8, 2021 Cam Fraser 0

Iceland’s Axel Flóvent teams up with Irish songwriter Ciaran Lavery to deliver a study in despair and longing. Both Flóvent and Lavery have already established international reputations for sensitive introspection, with Lavery having racked up around […]

Video: Icarus Phoenix “25 years of film photography aka 80’s Night Dance Party Singing ‘Send Me an Angel'”

July 8, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

We ran a track by Utah musician Drew Danburry’s Icarus Phoenix moniker last week but this one slipped by under the radar a few weeks ago. It’s another gem, to the extent that it made our […]

Video Premiere: Graham Brown Band “Haunted”

July 8, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the atmospheric new single from Vancouver’s Graham Brown Band. Featuring a driving rhythm and strong bass line, the song pulls you in and then keeps your attention thanks to an engaging, ranging vocal melody. A […]

Video: Joe Hodgson “Till The Last Breath”

July 7, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Taking the sporadic Wednesday afternoon instrumental slot – which we’re definitely not calling ChilledAmericana even in jest – is Northern Irish guitarist Joe Hodgson and his slide heavy composition ‘Till the Last Breath.‘ It was inspired […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0

An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Little Feat “Sailin’ Shoes”

March 2, 2022 4

‘Sailin’ Shoes’ was Little Feat’s second album with the original lineup of Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Richie Hayward, and Bill Payne. The quartet’s music was among many wonderful freewheeling experiments to come out of Frank Zappa’s […]

Tracks

Dan Michaelson “Careless” – Listen

November 17, 2017 0

There’s nothing careless about this track – the string section is magnificent, Dan Michaelson’s cracked vocal is simply embodying the distress of unravelling love. Someone should check Dan’s ok. But before you do that take a […]

News

Jackson Browne to honour Gregg Allman at Laid Back Fest

June 14, 2017 0

Apologies for continually posting about festivals 5000 miles away. RS report: “Jackson Browne, Steve Winwood, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Peter Wolf and Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band will perform in three cities in September as […]

Video: Miss Tess “Real Change”

Video: Axel Flóvent “Give In” (featuring Ciaran Lavery)

Video: Icarus Phoenix “25 years of film photography aka 80’s Night Dance Party Singing ‘Send Me an Angel'”

Video Premiere: Graham Brown Band “Haunted”

Video: Joe Hodgson “Till The Last Breath”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”