Louis Michot

Video Interview: Loose Cattle’s Michael Cerveris and Kimberley Kaye on “Someone’s Monster”

January 28, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

Character development and storylines make great americana songs. With a background in the stage and the punk side of the New York music scene, Loose Cattle’s leaders Michael Cerveris and Kimberley Kaye may not have been […]

Interview: Louis Michot on why it has taken over 20 years to release a solo album

November 28, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Louis Michot reveals himself to be more than simply a purveyor of Louisiana music. As a member of the Grammy award-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers and Michot’s Melody Makers singer-songwriter and fiddle player Louis Michot has released […]

Interview: Corey Ledet on helping preserve the Louisiana dialect Kouri-Vini through songwriting

November 14, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Why language and culture enhance the authenticity of music. Corey Ledet is one of the leading Creole and zydeco musicians of his generation, with a Grammy nomination to prove it, and an Americana UK favourite. With […]

Video Premiere: Louis Michot “Rêve du Troubadour” feat. Rising Stars Fife and Drum

September 19, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the atmospheric video for ‘Rêve du Troubadour’, which translates as ‘The Troubadour’s Dream’, by Louis Michot, the fiddler, songwriter and lead singer from GRAMMY-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers. The title is a reference to Michot’s […]

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