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Josh Ritter plays NPR Tiny Desk Concert with Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell: Watch

October 7, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Apologies for completely missing this last week – Josh Ritter played one of NPR’s magical little Tiny Desk concerts last week, as they described it “with the enthusiasm of a young child and the wisdom of […]

AMA announces its line-up for 2019 awards ceremony

August 27, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

The 18th annual Americana Honors & Awards is happening next month over in Nashville and they have announced the performing lineup for their big ceremony which takes place on the 11th. The list includes (deep breath…)

The Highwomen perform with Dolly and Isbell – Watch

July 30, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

The Highwomen, if you haven’t heard, are a like a new up to date female version of the Highway Men (geddit?), the country supergroup from the 80s which included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and […]

2019 Americana Honor and Awards Nominees are announced

May 15, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

So this happened last night although they didn’t send us a press release so we’re reporting this via Rolling Stone. We do by the way love the Milk Carton Kids – don’t forget to catch them […]

RS Country interview Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires

October 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

RS Country are running a nice little (not so little actually) interview today with Americana royalty (in a Republican way) (that’s Republican in the UK sense) (why did I start this?) Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires who […]

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Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”

March 24, 2026 0

2025 was another extraordinary year for Scottish singer-songwriter Dean Owens. Last year started with a headline show at Celtic Connections in Glasgow to launch Owens’ acclaimed twelfth studio album, Spirit Ridge, before touring Australia with his […]

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

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 […]

Essentials

Essentials: The Top 10 Erin Enderlin Songs

July 18, 2024 0

Somebody once told Erin Enderlin that she wrote sad bastard country music. She was delighted. There’s a Felice Brothers song with the lines “I put some whiskey in my whiskey/ I put some heartache into my […]

Album Reviews

Silver Synthetic “Rosalie”

April 24, 2025 0

Silver Synthetic’s sophomore effort is a wonderfully disparate jumble of genres. The primary influence of “Rosalie,” the second album by New-Orleans’ Silver Synthetic, may be Josh Rouse’s “1970” and “Nashville” discs from the mid-2000s. It immediately […]

Album Reviews

J.Mascis “ElasticDays” (Sub Pop, 2018)

November 20, 2018 0

J.Mascis is a familiar figure from the Alt-Rock scene of the 90s and noughties who latterly has started to produce a body of solo work that stands up very nicely against his more ragged glory of […]

Josh Ritter plays NPR Tiny Desk Concert with Amanda Shires And Jason Isbell: Watch

AMA announces its line-up for 2019 awards ceremony

The Highwomen perform with Dolly and Isbell – Watch

2019 Americana Honor and Awards Nominees are announced

RS Country interview Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires

Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”