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The Song Remains: Steve Cropper (1941 -2025)

December 8, 2025 Martin Johnson 2
Prime creator of the Stax sound in the 1960s and keeper of its flame. The world lost one of its most influential guitarists on December 3rd 2025, when Steve Cropper passed away in Nashville, marking the […]
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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Dean Nardi

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By most metrics, it is apparent readers enjoy lists: from the top 10 obscure americana songs to the 10 most annoying Neil Young songs about personal gripes to the ten best ways to avoid paying taxes. […]
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Interview: Liz Thomson on Greenwich Village, Joan Baez and the young Dylan

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The last year has seen Bob Dylan take the media by storm, something that started with the success of “A Complete Unknown”, a biopic that covered his career between 1961-1965, which was a critical and commercial […]
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Book Review: Chris Gregory “Minstrel Boy – The Metamorphosis Of Bob Dylan – Picasso Of Song, Volume Two”

October 31, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Following on from his highly acclaimed 2021 book, “Determined To Stand – The Reinvention Of Bob Dylan“, which took a detailed evaluation of the legendary singer-songwriter’s career between the years of 1992 – 2020, author Chris […]
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Bob Dylan “Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window,1956-1963”

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Already a legend, the unwashed phenomenon, the original vagabond. It is surely no great coincidence that with the recent success of the film “A Complete Unknown” that we should find ourselves here, on the latest Bootleg […]

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The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 3rd – Counting Crows “A Long December” (1996)

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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 […]
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Great Lakes “Don’t Swim Too Close”

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Musical subtlety and insightful words add up to a contender for album of any year. Album press releases often fall into two categories: perceptive or preposterous. Especially when a band is new to you, the first […]
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Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars

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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 […]

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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Rioghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Rioghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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Mark Rogers “Laying It Down” (Independent 2019)

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‘Laying it Down’ is Mark Rogers’ first full-length L.P. following a couple of EPs since reactivating his music career in 2012. Five of the eleven songs featured here are recycled and remixed from those EPs. His […]
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Video Premiere: King Nobody “Three Birds”

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Jerrold Ridenour, also-known-as King Nobody, has truly captured the sound of the desert on new single ‘Three Birds’.  The combination of cigar box guitar, a strong bass line and looping beats by Saul Good give the […]
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Jeremy Johnson “Insecuriosity” (Independent, 2019)

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If you saw the album’s cover and then just heard ‘A Song For Agnes’, ‘Unrelenting’ and ‘The King And The Thief’, the first three tracks of Jeremy Johnson’s debut studio album ‘Insecuriosity’ you’d think here was […]

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