Kris Kristofferson

The Song Remains: Kris Kristofferson (1936 – 2024)

September 30, 2024 Graeme Tait 4

“Looking back, I’m surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I’m glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one […]

For the Sake of the Song: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson “Highwayman”

June 17, 2024 Peter Thompson 8

In the mid-1980s, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash formed a supergroup, eventually known as The Highwaymen, recording and performing intermittently over a period of 10 years, during which time they released three […]

Book review: Brian Fairbanks “Willie, Waylon, And The Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever”

May 22, 2024 Paul Kerr 2

On the face of it this book is essentially the story of how four “outsiders” (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson), via their trials and tribulations (and, let’s admit it, success) eventually joined […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Donnie Fritts Songs

May 2, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Country soul is one of the great sub-genres of music and is a cornerstone of what subsequently became called americana, and it does what it says on the tin, it mixes country and soul music. What […]

Classic Clips: The Highwaymen “Desperados Waiting For A Train” – Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990

October 9, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

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 […]

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