Book Reviews
The Gordon Sharpe Americana UK Book Award 2025
We are now into year 3 of our celebration of the best books we reviewed in the previous year. To learn why we have named it for our still missed colleague you can read AUK editor […]
Bloodshot Records
Book Reviews
Book Review: Rob Miller “The Hours Are Long But The Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music”
A hugely entertaining account of Chicago’s Bloodshot Records. An independent label that was “too rock for country, and too country for punk.” Bloodshot Records was one of the pioneering labels when Alt/Insurgent Country became a thing […]
Interviews
Interview: Chicago session singer and multi-instrumentalist Nora O’Connor on finding her heart
Sharing band members with NRBQ and working with Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples. If you think you haven’t heard Nora O’Connor, but you have enjoyed the music coming out of Chicago over the last twenty years […]
News
Bloodshot Records – is this the end?
Bloodshot have been one of those labels synonymous with americana over the years, its roster including Ryan Adams, Neko Case, The Sadies, Alejandro Escovedo, Robbie Fulks, Justin Townes Earle, Kelly Hogan and Jon Langford among others […]
Album Reviews
Waco Brothers “Resist!” (Bloodshot Records, 2020)
Cash meets Clash! The Waco Brothers, a mash up of Jon Langford’s punk sensibilities and cowpunk twang, are probably the only band still around who merit the term “Insurgent Country,” a trademark on which Bloodshot Records […]