Iain Matthews

Vox Continental – a new feature from Rick Bayles launches today!

February 27, 2025 Rick Bayles 0

Following on from our recent ‘Continental Shift’ series of features on americana music in continental Europe, we’re launching a new monthly column, Vox Continental. This column is designed to be a round-up of americana activity in […]

Author and artist looking for fan memories of Iain Matthews

February 19, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

All can apply. Manchester-based author Richard Houghton is the author of more than 20 books about music, these have included authorized fan histories of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull and now he is tackling one of […]

Continental Shift 6. Netherlands

January 23, 2025 Rick Bayles 4

This is our sixth and final article in this series about European americana and we’ve arrived in the Netherlands, probably the most established americana market in continental Europe. Looking back over the other articles, there are […]

Interview: Eric Devries on “Traveler’s Heart”

December 10, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Dutch americana is alive and well with the help of the Song and Dance Band. The Dutch music scene has always been heavily influenced by the music of the UK and America and has produced artists […]

VERSIONS: “Ol’ 55”

August 25, 2023 Rick Bayles 2

Welcome back to our popular VERSIONS feature. For those of you not familiar with it, the idea is that our writers pick a great song and then as well as presenting readers with the original version, […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Chris Knight - Chris Knight
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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

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

March 11, 2026 2

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Tracks

The Incredible Vickers Brothers “Mirrors” – Listen

January 8, 2018 0

So, which one’s your favourite ? Rob ? Or is it Bob ? Hah! They’re the same person, and unsurprisingly they both share a love of jangly Anglo-Indy-Pop. Someone’s been listening to XTC – Rob knows […]

Album Reviews

Coyle Girelli “Out of This Town”

October 20, 2025 0

Mutual respect and a classy collaboration. The gist – it has been more than ten years since Coyle Girelli co-wrote with country singer/songwriter Mac Davis. Davis wrote two of Presley’s biggest hits, ‘In the Ghetto’ and […]

Album Reviews

Charlie Overbey “Broken Arrow” (Lone Hawk Records, 2018)

May 2, 2018 0

California native Charlie Overbey certainly comes with an interesting back story. Involved with the music industry for over twenty years, he has been in punk rock bands, toured the world with the likes of Lemmy and […]

Vox Continental – a new feature from Rick Bayles launches today!

Author and artist looking for fan memories of Iain Matthews

Continental Shift 6. Netherlands

Interview: Eric Devries on “Traveler’s Heart”

VERSIONS: “Ol’ 55”

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”