La Maison Tellier

Continental Shift: 3. France

November 28, 2024 Rick Bayles 2

Home territory for me and the enigma that is France. On paper, France should be a major territory for americana. Americana is often spoken about as being a continuation of the Troubadour tradition and France is […]

View from Across La Manche #19 – From Our Own Correspondent

October 30, 2023 Rick Bayles 2

Bed bugs and Broomsticks. There has been a lot of noise, recently, about the bed bug problem in Paris, not least of all here in France. ‘Les punaises de lit’ are a major problem in Paris […]

The View from Across La Manche – From our own correspondent

January 24, 2022 Rick Bayles 6

A new column that looks at life, and the search for Americana music, on the other side of the Channel. On the 9th December 2020, my wife and I put a couple of suitcases, and our […]