Features
Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Tim Martin
My colleague Paul Kerr asked the key question in his entry for the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time. What exactly is a great song? I took what might be seen as the coward’s way […]
Brinsley Schwarz
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Jim Ford “Harlan County”
A template for americana from the musical earthquake year of 1969. Anyone who has any form of interest in americana will also be fully aware of the challenges of coming to a consensus on what constitutes […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Brinsley Schwarz “The New Favourites of… Brinsley Schwarz”
Brinsley Schwarz have a special place in the formative years of British americana. Taking their name from guitarist Brinsley Schwarz, the band were formally known as Kippington Lodge. The early years of the band were somewhat […]
Features
Our top americana albums of 2021 – Part Three
Over the last couple of days we have counted down our top albums of 2021, with the Felice Brothers triumphantly taking our album of the year slot. But what about those artists who just missed out? […]
Album Reviews
Brinsley Schwarz “Tangled”
Massively enjoyable outing by 70’s underground legend Brinsley Schwarz. Brinsley Schwarz’s backstory is that they were a band that almost made the jump from the pub rock scene into the big time in the early and […]