Features
VERSIONS: “Get Rhythm”
Johnny Cash had originally wanted to record gospel songs for Sam Phillip’s Sun Records in Memphis but he only got a record contract when he came back with some rockabilly-style songs he had written. At the […]
Johnny Cash
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: The Highwaymen “Desperados Waiting For A Train” – Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990
One would hardly need an excuse to revisit such an iconic moment in musical history, not just americana or country music history, that took place at the Nassau Coliseum in 1990, but recent rumours of the […]
Interviews
Interview: Charley Crockett on playing to the ghosts of The Ryman
The debt owed to James “Slim” Hand and the juke joints and honky tonks of Texas. He may have been playing music since he was seventeen years old, but it has taken until he is nearly […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Johnny Cash “At San Quentin”
I can’t tell you exactly when I first heard this album, but I can tell you exactly where I was – in Fraser Park in Inverness with a couple of friends, huddled around a little portable […]
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: Johnny Cash “We’ll Meet Again”
Connecting to last week’s ‘Try A Little Tenderness’ by Charlie Rich, I could have chosen Slim Whitman’s ‘Just An Echo In The Valley,’ also written by Jimmy Campbell, Harry M. Woods, and Reginald Connelly. But I […]