Chris Shiflett

Essentials: Americana Podcasts and Internet Radio updated for 2026

July 9, 2026 Tim Martin 1

It’s been two years since we updated our list of the essential podcasts in our part of the musical forest, and as podcasts do come and go on occasion, it seemed like a good time before […]

Preview: Chris Shiflett and Willy Cobb arrive for UK dates next month

February 1, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett has announced Willy Cobb as support on his forthcoming headline tour in March, which concludes with a show at London’s Electric Ballroom on the 27th. Tickets are available here. Cobb says, […]

Chris Shiflett “Lost At Sea”

October 30, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Another slice of energetic rock, roots and punk from stadium rocker who tries to keep his feet on the ground You have to admire Chris Shiflett for not resting on his stadium rock laurels. As guitarist […]

Chris Shiflett “Long, Long, Year” – seems like so much longer…

August 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Chris Shiflett says of his new song that: “The line ‘It’s been a long, long year’ was rattling around my head for obvious reasons, but I framed it as a love song,” and ‘Long, Long Year‘ […]

Chris Shiflett, 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, 13th June 2017

June 20, 2017 KC Vines 0

In these reviews I often find myself harking back to a period in London’s long lost rock history: the pub rock and early punk days of 75/76 that, in particular, the west of the city became […]

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

August 5, 2026 2

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