Judy Collins

Live Review: Americana Music Association UK Awards, Hackney Empire, London – 26th January 2023

February 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 2

It’s a cliché but none the less true, that all good things have to come to an end and their annual awards show is the capping event of the Americana Music Association UK’s annual conference, held […]

Americana Music Association (UK) Announces Award Winners

January 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

By the miracle of the electric railway your dedicated late night news reporter was able to hot-foot (hot-rail?) it from London’s Hackney Empire where the AMA-UK Awards show was held on Thursday night and get back […]

Classic Clips: Judy Collins & The Boston Pops “Both Sides Now” Boston Symphony Hall 1976

November 11, 2022 Alan Fitter 0

Judy Collins is probably the best interpreter of songs not written by her in the world of folk and americana. Whilst she has of course written some excellent songs herself such as “My Father”, “Fishermen Song” […]

Classic Americana Albums: Judy Collins “In My Life”

November 9, 2022 Kimberly Bright 0

Judy Collins had already made her name in the New York folk scene by the time she released her innovative fifth studio album (sixth overall) ‘In My Life’ in 1966. Unlike her previous folk albums, it […]

Dream Team Double Header – Judy Collins & Wizz Jones

June 1, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Randomness – it can be a great thing. To hit town and find a favourite artist is playing that night, to stoop down and pick up a £50 note blowing along an empty street, to… well […]

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