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Interview: Thirty Tigers’ President David Macias on why they are only a quasi-label

December 3, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

How an enlightened attitude and a new business model helps bring major and developing artists’ music to market. David Macias is probably not a name that rings many bells with music fans, but if you have […]

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Jason Isbell, Kris Kristofferson among the names releasing vinyl this Record Store Day

September 17, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

This November sees the return of the “Black Friday” Record Store Day and this year the list of releases has something to delight any Americana fan. Among the vinyl being released are some rare live recordings, […]

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Book Review: Ralph Brookfield “On the Trail of Americana Music”

September 15, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 1

A laudable stab at the difficult task of grasping the many-headed beast that is Americana Music. Author Ralph Brookfield trained as a molecular physicist worked as a copy editor, software engineer, freelance writer, ran a software […]

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Jason Isbell and 400 Unit to release new covers album – Listen

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It was back in November last year when the world was an even more uncertain place that it is now that, Jason Isbell posted the following tweet: If Biden wins Georgia I’m gonna make a charity […]

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Interview: Stephen Deusner on why he wrote the first Drive-By Truckers biography

September 13, 2021 Martin Johnson 2

An exploration of the context behind Patterson Hood’s the duality of the southern thing is an interesting subtext. The Drive-By Truckers have been a cult band in the UK since the mid-2000s and they have seen […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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A great live take, with more than ten musicians crammed in, of the new song from Ohio indie-folkers Oliver Hazard.  Fun and rather lovely.

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More People Should Really Know About: Perry Keyes

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Australia has long presented as a prevailing outpost of Americana. From 13,000 miles away the community of artists, facilitators, commentators and audience seems firmly established, mightily enthusiastic and inherently creative. At AUK we have given our […]

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Lost Albums: Willis Alan Ramsey “Willis Alan Ramsey”

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A truly exceptional debut album that neither required nor received a follow-up. Some artists spend their whole career searching for that definitive moment when everything comes together to produce the classic album that sits alongside those […]

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