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Essentials: The Top 10 songs by The Delines

Essentials

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Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

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Thin Lear “Many Disappeared”

Album Reviews

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Live Review: Albert Lee, Union Chapel, London – 7th May 2026

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Angelo De Augustine “Angel In Plainclothes”

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The Delines at Rough Trade East 7th May 2022

Essentials: The Top 10 songs by The Delines

May 14, 2026 Comments Off

Those sufficiently long in the tooth may remember Margaret Thatcher’s purported praise of senior Conservative Party politician William Whitelaw: “Every prime minister needs a Willie”. For americana enthusiasts, their Willy could well be a Vlautin, songwriter […]

Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

May 14, 2026 Comments Off

Daniel Tashian is a legend in Nashville. He’s a deeply respected songwriter, he’s a solo artist with six albums to his name, he’s been in two superb bands, and he’s the go-to guy when you want […]

Thin Lear “Many Disappeared”

May 14, 2026 Comments Off

Thin Lear’s tales of death and loss sweetened by delectable pop melodies. New York-based Matt Longo, aka Thin Lear, grew up writing short stories, and that narrative style pervades his Many Disappeared album. Longo says he […]

Interviews

Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 Comments Off

The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]

Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 Comments Off

“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums – Teenage Fanclub “Songs From Northern Britain”

July 7, 2021 4

If The Byrds, Neil Young and Big Star are lynchpins of Americana, then undoubtedly so are Teenage Fanclub, who distil the three so eloquently into their own sweet sound. For over thirty years (and counting) these […]

Album Reviews

Luke Sital-Singh “New Haze”(EP) (Raygun Music, 2020)

May 13, 2020 0

Americana is a broad church, one which warmly welcomes L.A. dweller and English ex-pat Luke Sital-Singh to its blended choir. Sital-Singh got his big break in 2017 writing a song that was used for Silent Witness […]

Videos

Video: Glitterfox “Wildfires”

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Portland’s Glitterfox are one of the most exciting acts out there, with the seven-song recent release “Highway Forever” demonstrating their fabulous songcraft and gift for memorable melody. The duo, frontperson Solange Igoa and guitarist Andrea Walker, […]