Elizabeth Cook

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Elizabeth Cook “Great Television”

September 1, 2026 Richard Parkinson 2

A welcome and wonderful return. It’s hard to believe we have gone six years since Elizabeth Cook’s last album, Aftermath. Not that she’s been idle in the intervening years, with her television fishing show and a […]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows

July 30, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

Live stream available if you can’t make it! Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) has shared the initial lineup for its 2026 edition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Friday 2nd October to Sunday 4th October 2026. […]

Elizabeth Cook announces new album and narrative film

July 3, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

Elizabeth Cook returns with new album, Great Television, which will be released on 14th August 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Described as “a potent collision of country and rock & roll”, the album was produced by Shooter […]

Realising Waylon’s dreams – Shooter Jennings to put out the first of his father’s archive releases

August 6, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Triple GRAMMY® Award-winner Shooter Jennings has announced the release of “Songbird”, a completely new, previously unheard album by his legendary father, Waylon Jennings. The album will be released via Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers on 3rd October […]

Elizabeth Cook talks americana with Rolling Stone

October 25, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

And some other things to be honest. Rolling Stone reports: “Elizabeth Cook has been the hippie hillbilly queen of East Nashville’s Americana community for more than a decade. With an accent rooted in rural Florida and […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show

October 7, 2026 0

The Old Crow Medicine Show have been entertaining us throughout the 21st century. Led from the outset by the irrepressible Ketch Secor, they have cycled through some 17 members over that time, including such luminaries of […]

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

October 7, 2026 0

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos follow up last year’s live record with their second album: a carefully considered studio effort that blends that live energy with focused instrumental and engineering maturity. Billion Dollar Art comes out […]

Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album

October 7, 2026 0

Rainbow Body is a new musical collaboration featuring Taylor Goldsmith and Griff Goldsmith (Dawes), Rick Mitarotonda (Goose), Eric Krasno (Lettuce, Soulive), Ross James (Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band), and Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, […]

Interviews

Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0

The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]

Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2

Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

Interviews

Studio Life – Danny Schmidt

September 11, 2019 0

For many years, Danny Schmidt has been releasing critically-acclaimed albums, full of consistently exceptional songcraft and intelligent lyricism. The Texan singer-songwriter is known for his delicate, folk guitar, warm voice and poetic approach to his subjects. […]

Small Venue Heroes

Small Venue Heroes: Nathan Bell

November 1, 2022 0

Nathan Bell’s first stab at fame ran foul of the increasing assembly line approach required by the Nashville music industry in the 1980s. Unwilling to play their game he quit and had a regular job for […]

Album Reviews

K.C. Jones “Queen of the In Between”

June 22, 2021 0

The first solo album from the talented singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist K.C. Jones is an impressive dive into old and new Americana. K.C. Jones (a.k.a. Kelli Jones-Savoy) may be deeply influenced by divergent styles of music, but […]

Elizabeth Cook “Great Television”

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows

Elizabeth Cook announces new album and narrative film

Realising Waylon’s dreams – Shooter Jennings to put out the first of his father’s archive releases

Elizabeth Cook talks americana with Rolling Stone

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album

Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years

Live Review: My Darling Clementine, Hen & Chicken, Bristol – 1st October 2026