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Video: Danny Burns “Brother Wind” ft. Dan Tyminski

June 4, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

The new single from Irish bluegrass performer Danny Burns is simply gorgeous. Featuring the bright mandolin and characterful voice of the great Dan Tyminski, ‘Brother Wind’ is a superbly arranged re-imagining of Tim O’Brien’s much-loved folk […]

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Danny Burns to release third album featuring star guests

April 17, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Danny Burns, the Irish singer-songwriter, now based in South Carolina, has announced the release of his latest album “Southern Sky” via Bonfire Recording Co on 22nd August 2025. The album is Burns’ third full-length album for […]

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Video: Danny Burns & Steve Earle “Mercenary Song”

January 24, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is a brilliant, upbeat, foot-tapping song from Danny Burns.  It’s taken from his 2021 EP ‘Hurricane’ which featured a host of outstanding artists, including Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Sarah Jarosz.  For ‘Mercenary Song’, Burns […]

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  • Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2
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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

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Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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Interview: Brian Dunne asks is it so bad to want a good life?

December 9, 2025 0

While patiently waiting for Brian Dunne to get his due from those who listen to and hopefully buy physical media, it is worthwhile to linger in the brilliance of his fourth album, “Clams Casino” (Missing Piece, […]

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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 […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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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 […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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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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