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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Darren Lumbroso

January 22, 2026 Darren Lumbroso 4

Lists of popular songs have been around for more than a century. The US music trade paper Billboard began publishing a rundown of the top ten best-selling pieces of sheet music in June 1913. By January […]

Gillain Wwelch @ Jazz Fest, New Orleans, 29 April 2007

For the Sake of the Song: Gillian Welch “Everything Is Free”

November 24, 2025 Helen Jones 2

It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early-00s when music piracy was the hot topic. At the turn of the millennium, Metallica member Lars Ulrich famously took the free file-sharing service […]

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Richard Parkinson

November 20, 2025 Richard Parkinson 6

Every writer faced with distilling the entire history of music into the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time is faced with a need to place some boundaries around the task in order to get some […]

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Short

November 13, 2025 Andy Short 8

Asking someone to list an all-time top ten of anything can be difficult. It is a personal choice, and what one individual loves, others don’t care for. For this assignment, it is the “Top 10 Americana […]

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Martin Johnson

October 2, 2025 Martin Johnson 18

Everybody loves a list, except perhaps the person whose job is to write it in the first place. Picking the top 10 songs in a genre that is known for the quality of its songwriting is […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 1

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

Ad for American Beauty album 5th December 1970

For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

September 21, 2026 0

“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an old […]