Markus Rill and the Troublemakers

Vox Continental: November 2025

November 27, 2025 Rick Bayles 0

First time mentions in the column for artists from Iceland and Denmark, plus new recordings from Sweden, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands! As ever, with this column, Nordicana is well to the fore, and we start […]

The View from Across La Manche – From our own correspondent

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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 […]

Markus Rill and the Troublemakers “Songland” (Blue Rose Records, 2019)

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Hailing originally from Germany, Markus Rill owes his Americana roots to his formative years spent in Austin, Texas. Playing with the likes of Townes van Zandt, and praised for his songwriting skills by highly respected artists […]

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Around 4pm on 22nd May 2018 I was standing in line outside the London Stadium, waiting for the gates to open for a Rolling Stones show. The wait was made more tolerable by virtue of being […]

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Established Yorkshire songstress reinforces her reputation for excellence with fine mini-album. Any new single release ahead of a new album is always a teaser. After the video premiere of her new single The Losing Hand on […]

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Kurt Vile has announced his new album, Philadelphia’s been good to me (note the lowercase words just to upset copy editors!) (there’s a special place in hell for artists who use lowercase for album titles – […]

Markus Rill and the Troublemakers

Vox Continental: November 2025

The View from Across La Manche – From our own correspondent

Markus Rill and the Troublemakers “Songland” (Blue Rose Records, 2019)

For The Sake Of The Song: The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”

Elaine Palmer “Some Seek Silver, Some Seek Gold”

Kurt Vile says “Philadelphia’s been good to me” on his new album and heads to the UK in September

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