John Hiatt

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Readers’ Picks 21-30

February 28, 2024 Clint West 1

We invited readers to have their say and you responded in your droves, voting for a total of 131 different artists although we are still to decide whether votes for Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones […]

Just Because…

October 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Where to start? What’s the most bizarre part of yesterday’s speech? The suggestion that what we need after 13 years of the current party is a wind of change – and change of that kind can […]

Interview: Toria Richings on being fired up for Nashville’s AMERICANAFEST

September 5, 2023 Martin Johnson 6

Travel opened her eyes to roots music and Australia helped develop it into her own style. Inspired initially by Neil Young and Joan Baez, Toria Richings always knew she was a songwriter but it took a […]

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Classic Clips: John Hiatt with Ry Cooder “Long Time Comin” AMA Awards 2015

January 13, 2023 Tim Martin 0

It’s awards season and a staple part of many award ceremonies is one artist guesting with another and the end of show sing along. At the Americana Music Association’s Americanafest in 2014 the task of leading […]

Book Review – Michael Elliott “Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story”

December 2, 2021 Kimberly Bright 2

A long overdue, in-depth biography of one of Americana’s most enigmatic characters. Singer-songwriter John Hiatt has long deserved, among many other accolades and tributes, to have a proper biography written about his complex life and career. […]

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