Black Opry

Video Interview: Jett Holden on “The Phoenix”

November 12, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

How Black Opry provided a second opportunity to follow his music career dream. Black Opry has been generating a lot of media interest lately as it attempts to build a network and community to support black […]

Interview: Lilli Lewis on americana, New Orleans and activism

October 25, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Why losing the backbeat, COVID lockdown and memories of 150-year-old church helped create Americana. If the residents of AUK Towers are ever feeling bored, then they can always return to the endless debate prompted by the […]

Interview: Misty River’s Carmen Phelan on why she was born to play americana

October 18, 2021 Martin Johnson 2

How a diagnosis of a potentially life-changing condition helped in achieving a long held ambition. Carmen Phelan has had a long career as a sought-after session musician on fiddle and violin before deciding in her 30’s […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers