Tracks
Rose Hotel “My Satellite” – gone up to the sky
In normal times what would we all be talking about, other than the fact that after a hiatus of more than 50 years the old gang has got back together, pulled in an extra Canadian and […]
Videos
Video: Hollie Rogers “Everything’s Fine” Feat. Elles Bailey & Beth Nielsen Chapman – life in all its messy, unpredictable moments
In one of the best videos we’ve seen this year, Hollie Rogers presents a training module to teach us how to pretend that everything is fine. Some wonderfully-ridiculous snippets of advice crawl across the screen, encouraging […]
Features
The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 3rd – Counting Crows “A Long December” (1996)
From the fan favourite album Recovering the Satellites, this song was highly rated across the board, clearly striking a chord with writers (5 of whom voted for it), as its themes of regret and heartbreak melded […]
News
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan are to be celebrated by artists such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro as part of […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: Geoffrey Himes “Willie Nelson, All the Albums” The Stories Behind The Music
This book is a thing of beauty. From its presentation to the wonderful array of historical photographs inside, it is a volume to treasure. Author Geoffrey Himes wrote about music every week in the Washington Post […]
News
Preview: Sara Petite is back for Spring tour dates ahead of new album
San Diego’s own americana queen, Sara Petite, is returning to the UK this spring with a ten-show tour promising more of the heartfelt, fearless storytelling that forms the base of her sets, coupled with the powerful […]
In normal times what would we all be talking about, other than the fact that after a hiatus of more than 50 years the old gang has got back together, pulled in an extra Canadian [...]- In one of the best videos we’ve seen this year, Hollie Rogers presents a training module to teach us how to pretend that everything is fine. Some wonderfully-ridiculous snippets of advice crawl across the screen, [...]
- Sevindust is the latest single from North Carolina’s Nathan Evans Fox – and for those unfamiliar with the product, Sevindust is a pesticide commonly used in the Southern states of the USA to protect plants [...]
- Here is another deeply emotive and brilliantly-crafted song from Michael Weston King. This year, King had planned to release another My Darling Clementine album with his wife Lou Dalgleish. However, as has been well-documented on [...]
- We said of Haylie Davis, “Charming echoes of effortlessly cool 70s folk“, and whilst that was when Haylie Davis was Haylie Hostetter and recording as Lady Apple Tree, we stand by that assessment, and offer [...]
j ames Martin:
Oh right. Some Brit feels like he know America and Anericana so well that he can decide which songs are…
E S:
Levon was AMERICAN!
FredArnold:
Thank you - silly error. Now amended
