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For the Sake of The Song: Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris “In My Hour Of Darkness”

November 6, 2023 Paul Kerr 3

One of the more intriguing aspects of Gram Parsons’ second album, ‘Grievous Angel’, released four months after his death, is its closing track, ‘In My Hour Of Darkness’. It’s a glorious song which owes as much […]

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Previously unheard 1973 live album from Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels set to be released on Record Store Day

October 25, 2023 Paul Kerr 3

Fifty years after Gram Parsons’ passing, Amoeba Music and Polly Parsons (Gram’s daughter) have announced the release of a special two-LP live recording from Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels titled ‘The Last Roundup: Live from […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Emmylou Harris “Boulder to Birmingham”

October 16, 2023 Rick Bayles 4

At the start of her post Gram Parsons solo career, Emmylou Harris was known more as an interpreter of songs than as a songwriter, though she had penned a number of the songs on her earlier […]

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Buddy & Julie Miller “In The Throes”

September 28, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

The celebrated Americana twosome remain in grand form on this much-anticipated album. It’s a hearty welcome back to Buddy & Julie Miller, by now eligible to be considered as the grand old couple of Americana, but, […]

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Various Artists “More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith”

September 18, 2023 Richard Parkinson 1

A mighty and entirely merited salute to a giant of americana. Nanci Griffith would have turned 70 in July 2023 had she not died in August 2021 after a long illness.  To celebrate her life and […]

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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For over fifty years, Nils Lofgren has been astonishing audiences with his magical wizardry on the guitar.  At the age of just nineteen, he was a key contributor to Neil Young’s classic ‘After the Gold Rush’ and this […]

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Rebecca Clamp & Hans Wessels “Lit Up with Sorrow” (Folkwit Records, 2017)

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Rebecca Clamp – here collaborating with her partner Hans Wessels – writes songs that are like three minute windows into her life, with subject matters relating to her feelings in a particular instant, summaries of conversations […]

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Track Premiere: Jaspar Lepak “Arizona”

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Americana UK is pleased to premiere Jaspar Lepak’s new song ‘Arizona‘ which will be available everywhere on Monday. Jaspar Lepak’s ‘Arizona‘ is a plea to her home state to not backtrack on abortion rights – it […]

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