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Essentials: The Top 10 Americana songs about America

October 14, 2025 Tim Martin 13

Our writers continue to deliver articles for this popular Feature on an occasional basis. This week Tim Martin has an interesting take on the series. Americana as a genre spends a fair bit of time exploring […]

Elles Bailey announces dates for her headline 2023 tour

November 17, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

After a successful tour supporting Don McLean, support slots with Walter Trout, and opening for Van Morrison, Elles Bailey has announced a headlining tour which starts early next year. The tour will showcase her third album, […]

Elles Bailey to support Don McLean on his Autumn tour

April 5, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Don McLean has announced his 50th Anniversary ‘American Pie Tour’: a 17-date tour, starting in Cardiff on 11th September and playing throughout the country until 4th October, ending at the London Palladium. Support will come from […]

Don Mclean “Greenback Dollar” – Listen

November 23, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

It was a co-write by Hoyt Wayne Axton and Ken Ramsey which The Kingston Trio did pretty well with. Here Don Mclean has given it his touch as one of the cuts on his new album ‘Still […]

Grab a slice of American Pie – Don McLean heads to the UK this month

August 19, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

Singer-songwriter and folk-rock icon Don McLean is set to perform four UK dates later this month as part of his current transatlantic tour. McClean, responsible for ‘American Pie‘, which was listed as the number 5 song […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

The Deportees – “A Single Truth” – Listen

September 19, 2017 0

The Deportees are an Aberdeen based band who look to the likes of Teenage Fanclub, The Waterboys, and Wilco as their musical inspirations. Over three years in the making, their debut album The Birth of Industry is out […]

Tracks

Fruit Bats “Let You People Down” – wrestling with my angst

August 13, 2025 0

I think we can just waffle along a bit and then let you, favoured reader, hit the play button. Look – Eric D. Johnson is just one of our favourite Americana artists – an endless collaborator, […]

Album Reviews

Timber “The Family” (Cornelius Chapel Records, 2018)

November 13, 2018 0

‘The Family’ is the debut release from Nashville-based Alabama duo, Timber. Formed almost by coincidence when Janet Simpson of the Delicate Cutters was recommended to Will Stewart of Willie & The Giant as a potential contributor, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana songs about America

Elles Bailey announces dates for her headline 2023 tour

Elles Bailey to support Don McLean on his Autumn tour

Don Mclean “Greenback Dollar” – Listen

Grab a slice of American Pie – Don McLean heads to the UK this month

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”