Carolina Chocolate Drops

Dom Flemons Wins Top Honour in 20th Annual Acoustic Music Awards, the first ever African American winner

February 27, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Acclaimed folk artist Dom Flemons has won the International Acoustic Music Awards’ (IAMA) Overall Grand Prize in their 20th awards with his song ‘Traveling Wildfire’. The song also won him the Best Folk/Americana/Roots Award. Flemons is […]

AmericanA to Z – Carolina Chocolate Drops

February 5, 2019 Jonathan Aird 1

It’s easy to think that the Carolina Chocolate Drops were all about “reclaiming the banjo” and taking back a strand of American vernacular music of the 19th and early 20th centuries that had been culturally appropriated. […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 1

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers