Americana music is like the Mississippi, a mighty current constantly shifted by influences great and small. One of the musical streams that altered the flow of americana is the tumbling turbulence that bubbled up from the […]
On the new single from Lloyd Cole’s upcoming album ‘On Pain‘, which he is releasing on his EarMUSIC label on the 23rd July he sings that “it’s warmer by the fire, by the flames” to a […]
It’s now nearly 42 years since Harold Forster Chapin died in a horrific car crash on the Long Island Expressway when his tiny 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit collided with an enormous semi-trailer truck. Better known of course […]
Back on the 12th August 2022 I opened an e-mail from Gretchen Peters as many would have done across the country that morning with the single word headline ‘Announcement’. Intrigued I quickly proceeded to cast my […]
Even the most casual followers of americana are aware of the importance The Byrds had on the genre, even though formally they released ‘only’ 12 official albums. And among those, even the weaker ones, like ‘Dr. […]
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