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Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Gene Clark

October 29, 2025 Graeme Tait 16
With this popular feature now well into its second year, I find myself challenged to make my fourth contribution. Having initially played safe with my first choice, Stephen Stills, I got rather bold with my second, […]
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Re-release Review: Gene Clark “Back Street Mirror: Revisited”

August 12, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
New version of 2018’s EP release sees the addition of five tracks that previously appeared as part of 2016’s limited edition “The Lost Studio Sessions, 1964 – 1982”. Gene Clark’s status within, not just Americana music […]
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Interview: Jerry Leger on why he can’t have enough echo on “Donlands“

December 19, 2023 Martin Johnson 0
Having the confidence to show more of yourself brings more mature songwriting. Jerry Leger has released his 14th album which is not only one of his best but it also gives listeners a glimpse of a […]
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Interview: Carla Olson on the joys of collaborating and producing

November 7, 2023 Martin Johnson 4
Celebrating a life of playing and listening to music and tipping her hat to Paladin. Carla Olson first came to the wider attention of the listening public with her band the Textones who were part of […]
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Video Premiere: Robert Rex Waller Jr “Gypsy Rider”

October 6, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the excellent new single from I See Hawks in L.A. frontman, Robert Rex Waller Jr.  We get to see Waller lending his characterful voice to ‘Gypsy Rider’, the classic Gene Clark song.  Alongside Waller, Carla […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

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The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]
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Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

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The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]
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Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

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Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

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  • Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”
  • Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers
  • Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates
  • All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December
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Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

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Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

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A sumptuous and poetic love letter to The Black Country. This is Susy Wall’s second album after 2024’s “The Spaces in Between”. Wall has lived in the Black Country for 25 years, and the album, funded […]
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