Jim Lauderdale

The Long Road adds new acts to 2026 bill including Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Jim Lauderdale, Felice Brothers

February 27, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

The UK’s largest outdoor country, americana and roots festival, The Long Road, is returning for a seventh year on the August 2026 Bank Holiday weekend (27th to 30th August). The festival, which takes place in the […]

Jim Lauderdale putting out album 38: “Country Super Hits Volume 2”, touring with Emmylou Harris

February 25, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

Jim Lauderdale is not only one of the most celebrated songwriters in americana, but he may also be the most prolific. Since his major label debut in 1991, the recent Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee […]

Emmylou Harris announces farewell tour of UK and Europe in 2026

November 28, 2025 Richard Parkinson 7

Fourteen-time Grammy Award winner and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Emmylou Harris has announced her final European tour beginning in the UK and Ireland in early 2026, with UK and Netherlands shows in May and […]

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Richard Parkinson

November 20, 2025 Richard Parkinson 6

Every writer faced with distilling the entire history of music into the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time is faced with a need to place some boundaries around the task in order to get some […]

Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on “My Favorite Place” with The Game Changers

June 25, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Keeping traditions alive and making new ones. If you had to name one artist who best embodied what americana music is then you could do a lot worse than look to Jim Lauderdale. He is a […]

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