Hurray For The Riff Raff

Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

April 23, 2026 Ian C Rothery 0

In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurray For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]

More People Really Should Know About: Pat Reedy

February 10, 2026 Andrew Raw 3

Put simply, it is the quality of Pat Reedy’s blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges, honky-tonk songwriting that makes him stand out so strongly from the crowd. His songs have great, memorable melodies that you want to hear again, even […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 216 “Top of the Pops”

January 5, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 2

So Christmas has come and gone in the twinkling of a bearded man’s eye, and he’s back in the North Pole, and we’re all clearing up the detritus of a week’s worth of fun and frolics […]

Something for the weekend: Bright Eyes feat. Hurray for the Riff Raff “Dyslexic Palindrome”

August 29, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader – I am having a rare venture down to London to see Sam Russo tonight although I’m so tired I fully expect to fall asleep in […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 174 – “A Point of View”

February 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 4

As I write this week’s column, I can feel the excitement beginning to well up inside. I’m going to a gig tonight. It often seems incredible to me that after 45 years of regular gig attendance, […]

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