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Artwork for Nanci Griffith tribute 'More Than A Whisper' on Rounder Records

Various Artists “More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith”

September 18, 2023 Richard Parkinson 1

A mighty and entirely merited salute to a giant of americana. Nanci Griffith would have turned 70 in July 2023 had she not died in August 2021 after a long illness. To celebrate her life and […]

artwork for Laura Cantrell album "Just Like A Rose"

Laura Cantrell “Just Like A Rose – The Anniversary Sessions”

June 13, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

Welcome return after nine year hiatus for one of Americana’s most respected artists. “(It is) my favourite record of the last ten years and possibly my life”. Not a quote from myself but rather from legendary […]

Shannon McNally to release The Waylon Sessions

April 19, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Shannon McNally has announced the release next month of ‘The Waylon Sessions’, a new album that sets out to revisit the songs and spirit of Waylon Jennings, a legend with whom she’s always had an ongoing […]

Documentary Film Review – “It Was the Music”

March 23, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 4

Fascinating and detailed look at the lives of two support musicians who take front of stage. ‘It Was the Music’, is a ten-part documentary film stretching over 7.5 hours, featuring partners in life and music Larry […]

Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on East Nashville, Willie Nelson and the New York Dolls

February 19, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

He is a guitar player with impeccable influences and can channel the best of classic pop to push americana boundaries Throughout the history of most artistic movements, be it music, painting or literature, there has always […]

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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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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

Elena Loper “Weathervane Whale”

June 6, 2025 0

Dream-folk debut displays the beguiling talents of this Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter. The eleven songs on “Weathervane Whale” were written and recorded during the lockdown years of the pandemic. Pacific Northwest artist Elena Loper used the enforced […]

Interviews

Interview: David Grisman on the groundbreaking Garcia/Grisman album and more

December 8, 2025 3

The “Garcia/Grisman” album was recorded in 1991, and chances are you never heard these two master musicians sound as good as they did on this record. Jerry Garcia’s tasteful picking on this album is inspired and […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: The Mammals + The Rye Sisters, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey – 7th April 2023

April 17, 2023 2

Throughout the years I have been privileged to witness some of the worlds finest acts, encompassing the full range in performance and entertainment levels, from the average and disappointing all the way to the breathtakingly brilliant. […]

Various Artists “More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith”

Laura Cantrell “Just Like A Rose – The Anniversary Sessions”

Shannon McNally to release The Waylon Sessions

Documentary Film Review – “It Was the Music”

Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on East Nashville, Willie Nelson and the New York Dolls

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”