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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Fred Arnold

January 4, 2024 FredArnold 8

So, my initial list of candidates for this enterprise, drawn purely from memory without any prompts, added up to 35 artists. Then I went to the prompts (my music collection). That brought the number up to […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Pete Churchill

October 12, 2023 Peter Churchill 7

Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists. Ever? Impossible task. So, let us assume the writer cannot possibly have had access to every potential artist who might fit comfortably into that category and take it from there. […]

Classic Clips: Jackson Browne with JD Souther – AMA Awards Ryman Auditorium, 2014

September 22, 2023 Peter Churchill 1

The 2014 Americana Music Awards at the Ryman Auditorium saw Jackson Browne awarded the Spirit of Americana/Free Speech in Music award. If that sounds like a made-up award aimed solely at the recipient well then, so […]

Paperback Riders – Barney Hoskyns “Hotel California”

April 3, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Subtitled “Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976”, this the story of how Country mixed with pop, rock and folk to create something new in the hills above Los Angeles. It’s also the story […]

The Song Remains: David Lindley (1944-2023)

March 6, 2023 Martin Johnson 4

He was so much more than a simple West Coast session guitarist. There are an awful lot of very good guitarists, but only a few who could be said to be true masters of their instrument, […]

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

August 6, 2026 0

A respectful and traditional tribute to Phil Ochs. Volume 1 of this collaborative tribute by Phil Odgers of The Men They Couldn’t Hang and John Kettle of Merry Hell was birthed in the dark days of […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0

Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door. Tell us about it. Although […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Fred Arnold

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Pete Churchill

Classic Clips: Jackson Browne with JD Souther – AMA Awards Ryman Auditorium, 2014

Paperback Riders – Barney Hoskyns “Hotel California”

The Song Remains: David Lindley (1944-2023)

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

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