Grateful Dead

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

July 17, 2026 Tim Martin 0

When Dennis McNally published A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead in 2002, he had an almost impossible task. It needed to document a band whose history was already wrapped in layers […]

Paperback Riders: John Perry Barlow “Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times” and The Principles Of Adult Behavior

April 30, 2026 Tim Martin 0

John Perry Barlow’s memoir Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times reads like an acid trip from the American counterculture, yet also carries an idealistic turn that comes from living through multiple revolutions. The book […]

Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

April 28, 2026 Martin Johnson 0

Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Railroad Songs

April 16, 2026 Martin Johnson 10

At the remove of two hundred years, it is very hard, if not impossible, to fully comprehend the impact that the expansion of railroads throughout the world had in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The […]

The Last Waltz encore 25th November 1976

The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey

March 12, 2026 Chas Lacey 2

The devil may have all the best tunes but six months and many songs down the line from this feature’s inaugural selection, the erudition and impeccable taste of my esteemed colleagues mean that many of the […]

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

August 5, 2026 2

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 […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

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 […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers