Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Video: Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Blackness of the Night”

October 5, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Bill Callahan, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Iranian-American experimental musician and labelmates AZITA have released a lovely cover of Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ track ‘Blackness of the Night’, originally taken from his sophomore 1967 album ‘New Masters’. Cat Stevens […]

Ten Americana artists from Kentucky

June 29, 2020 Richard Phillips 1

If you were to find yourself cruising down Interstate-75 in the Renfro Valley area of Kentucky you may feel inclined to take a detour at exit 62 and head on down to the Kentucky Music Hall […]

Video: Cabane feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Bostegehio “Take Me Home (Part 2)”

March 10, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

The New York Times describes the new material from Cabane as: “An atmospheric wisp… with glimmers of Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg.” Perfect description. This song is taken from ‘Grand Est La Maison’, the new project […]

Video: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “At the Back of the Pit”

November 29, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader on this blackest of Fridays with a treat worth much more than that 63 inch TV you don’t need, but you know – there’s a Carry On joke in […]

Will Oldham publishes book of his lyrics

April 12, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Pitchfork report today that our favourite royal americana star Will Oldam aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy will be publishing a book compiling his lyrics later this year. They report: “Songs of Love and Horror is out October 9 via W.W. Norton and […]

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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 […]

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

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Josienne Clarke “Parenthesis, I”

May 9, 2024 0

Complex, often dazzling and emotive work from artist fulfilling her potential. Opening with the hymnal ‘The Calm‘ the new album by Josienne Clarke is a measured and maturing work following her previous releases. Clarke’s vocals remain […]

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Interview: Counting Crows with Love from A(dam) to (durit)Z

June 23, 2025 2

It was thirty-two years ago when Adam Duritz of Counting Crows wrote a song about wanting to be famous, a rock ‘n’ roll star. He worried about being a one-hit wonder with ‘Mr. Jones’s, which of […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Lambchop “Is A Woman”

April 14, 2021 1

Lambchop is listed as a Nashville band, or at least that’s where the band’s mastermind Kurt Wagner started out as a guy laying down parquet or laminate floors around town, trying to earn a daily living. […]

Video: Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Blackness of the Night”

Ten Americana artists from Kentucky

Video: Cabane feat. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Bostegehio “Take Me Home (Part 2)”

Video: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “At the Back of the Pit”

Will Oldham publishes book of his lyrics

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”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”