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More People Really Should Know About: Pat Reedy

February 10, 2026 Andrew Raw 2
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 […]
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Something for the weekend: Bright Eyes feat. Hurray for the Riff Raff “Dyslexic Palindrome”

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

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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, […]
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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 10-1

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Yesterday we counted down numbers 20-11 in our top albums of 2024 and noted that we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up but that 2024 undoubtedly contained future classics which people […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

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Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]
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Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]
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Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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I Write The Songs: Jimmy Webb

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How could we have a series about songwriters and not include the outstanding Jimmy Webb! Of course, Webb’s songwriting isn’t focused on Americana, per se. He has written for a host of artists that have nothing […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Michael Carpenter

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The dividing line between genres can often be blurry at best, and americana, indie rock, country and power pop often overlap to the point that pigeonholing becomes pointless. An interesting example of skipping between and beyond […]
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A dozen years ago, Tift Merritt was mentioned in virtually every journalistic round up of rising talent in the alt-country and Americana scenes and here we are 12 years later waiting with baited breath for her […]

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