Interviews
Interview: Bernie Leadon Too Late to Be Cool? No way!
When pigs can fly and cows jump over the moon …. when hell freezes over …. when an NBA player gets called for “palming the ball” …. when George Costanza picks up a check … when […]
Gram Parsons
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Lucinda Williams “A Song For You” – Return to Sin City: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, 2004
In the summer of 2004, Gram Parsons’ daughter Polly put together two tribute concerts to her late father in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. She was able to call upon an array of well-known fans […]
Features
Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Raw
Under Andy Short’s recent Top 10, there was praise from a reader for his choices that had “objectivity and historical context” as opposed to others, which had been “Some songs I like”. The reader, it has […]
Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Hanging Stars songs
The London-based Hanging Stars were formed from the ashes of jangle-rock band The See See. The Hanging Star’s frontman and lead singer, Richard Olson, found himself the only original member of The See Sees left and […]
Columns
Clint West’s Americana Plus: The 1970’s – Heaven or Hell?
There was a time not so long ago where, on a fairly regular basis, the Tories would issue dire warnings that Labour would “take Britain back to the 1970s”. You don’t hear that so much now […]