AmericanA to Z
Americana A to Z – Lyle Lovett
It was about 2015 that I first developed a love of country music. Now I know what you’re thinking, ‘don’t start talking about how much you love Dolly Parton’, but let me finish. It didn’t […]
Lyle Lovett
Features
10 Grateful Dead Songs Covered By Bluegrass, Country and Americana Artists
The Grateful Dead have many claims to fame, from being at the heart of the development of psychedelic rock in San Francisco and paving the way for the Summer Of Love in 1967, to being […]
Album Reviews
Classic Americana Albums: Lyle Lovett “Pontiac” (MCA/Curb, 1987)
I am sure it is an apocryphal and familiar story, but it does have a point regarding Lovett’s surprising union with Julia Roberts. There was speculation about how the one might manage to live with […]
Videos
Video: Lyle Lovett “If I Had a Boat”
This week’s retro video is the beautiful ‘If I Had a Boat’, the opening song on ‘Pontiac’, released by Lyle Lovett in 1987. The album reached number 12 in the Billboard Country Chart and was […]
Live Reviews
C2C Country To Country, 02, London, 10th March 2019
The passion for some forms of modern country music is well and truly alive in the UK. This touring festival of Country/Americana acts which travels to the UK and around the world once per year […]