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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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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0

The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]

Artwork for Yarn album “Saturday Night Sermon”

Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

May 13, 2026 0

Enjoyable southern rock release with lyrics that focus on the positive. Formed in Brooklyn at the end of 2006, but now based in North Carolina, Yarn tend to lean towards the southern rock element of americana. […]

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

May 13, 2026 0

The Bread and Roses is located in the heart of Clapham, London. Owned by The Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council, it consists of the ground-floor pub and a theatre space above. It’s a community-oriented establishment […]

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Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0

“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 29

September 29, 2021 0

Back on the wheel as the pandemic wreaks havoc in education. After my brush with this horrendous disease I have returned to work, in a somewhat weakened state for now, to find the problem with absenteeism […]

Album Reviews

Wilco “Cruel Country”

May 11, 2022 2

Wilco embrace country music in a glorious, gorgeous return to the very peak of both Tweedy’s songwriting and his band’s powers. For the first time since 2007s ‘Sky Blue Sky‘ Wilco have made an album as […]

Album Reviews

Ags Connolly “Siempre”

July 3, 2023 0

A superb album of authentic-sounding Texas border-style music recorded deep in the wilds of Oxfordshire. Listening to Ags Connolly’s fourth album ‘Siempre’ (‘Always’ for you non-Spanish speakers), you’d imagine he’d taken himself off to somewhere in […]

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

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

Van Morrison to play 5 night residency at new West London venue in September

Odd Marshall “Seconds”