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Video Interview: Mike Montrey on “Love, Time & Mortality”

November 26, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Americana from New Jersey that speaks to the human experience. The Mike Montrey Band are one of the most popular roots rock bands in New Jersey who have worked hard over the years touring the highways […]

Americana one two three….

July 24, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Numbers, they are great, aren’t they? All around us all the time – there’s the wall that’s not quite upright, leaning at 5 degress, there’s the quickest way from point A where you might be standing […]

Peter Bogdanovich’s “Very Last Picture Show” revisited

January 19, 2022 Gordon Sharpe 2

A classic film of the 1970s’ – with its lonesome cheating heart in Texas. Film director Peter Bogdanovich died on the 6th of January this year – the news of which brought to mind what I would […]

Classic Americana Albums: Ray Charles “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music”

March 31, 2021 Mark Nenadic 2

Ray Charles was one smart son of a gun. He’d conquered the RnB world during the 1950s, despite his own blindness and American society’s overt racial barriers. But he knew there was beauty and versatility in […]

Classic Americana Albums: Elvis Costello and the Attractions “Almost Blue” (F-Beat, 1981)

December 16, 2020 Martin Johnson 2

Classic Americana Albums, by definition, have achieved a relevance that is timeless and are no longer dependent on the time and place that formed them. Elvis Costello’s ‘Almost Blue’, whilst timeless is also very topical now […]