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Clint West’s Americana Plus: The 1970’s – Heaven or Hell?

May 20, 2024 Clint West 13

There was a time not so long ago where, on a fairly regular basis, the Tories would issue dire warnings that Labour would “take Britain back to the 1970s”. You don’t hear that so much now […]

Features

Interview: Bill Kirchen’s real country for hippies by “The Titan of The Telecaster”

July 12, 2022 Martin Johnson 2

How Pete Townshend helped Bill Kirchen get his first Telecaster and working with the UK’s Nick Lowe. Bill Kirchen is one of the legends of americana due to his time with genre-defining band Commander Cody and […]

Interviews

Interview: Ray Benson of Asleep At The Wheel on 50 years of western swing

October 8, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

How a little hippie boy and his friends helped preserve and enhance Bob Wills’ legacy. .Asleep At Wheel have been keeping the western swing genre alive ever since a little Jewish hippie boy named Ray Benson […]

Features

10 songs about truckers and trucking – Part One

October 19, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 11

Here are 10 songs about truckers and trucking, hopefully without a dodgy bro-country reference in sight.  The myth of the road is part of American folklore but here in the UK and especially here in Cheshire […]

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  • North Mississippi All Stars “Still Shakin'”
  • AUK Back Pages No. 15
  • Live Review: Ron Sexsmith, Water Rats, London – 4th June 2025
  • Watchhouse “Rituals”
  • Iron & Wine “Robin’s Egg” – sweetness follows
  • BC Camplight “A Sober Conversation”
  • Video: Imogen Clark “The Art of Getting Through” ft. Mickey Raphael
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Interview: For Dear Heather a different sound with the same feeling

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The Edinburgh band discusses UK alt-country, The Beatles and what winning the Mercury Prize would mean. “I’ve always had an obsession with Batman: I love Batman”. Rex Binning, guitarist, bassist and vocalist, speaks for the band […]

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Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 0

Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]

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Interview: Chatham Rabbits can pull from a hatful of songs

May 28, 2025 0

It’s hard to pin down and stamp a genre like a Notary Public would on Chatham Rabbits. The husband-and-wife duo of Austin and Sarah McCombie started out in bluegrass and old-timey music, but they have taken […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 34

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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