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

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 […]

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

June 13, 2019 Peter Churchill 0

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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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Features

Meanwhile, in Montréal – connection and inspiration at the 2025 FAI Awards

February 25, 2025 0

The 2025 Folk Alliance International (FAI) conference wrapped up over the weekend, and it was another occasion which made us wish that the petty cash was a rather larger pot… one day, one day… It’s an […]

Album Reviews

Taylor McCall “Mellow War”

March 1, 2024 0

‘Mellow War’ is an album by young artist inspired by the veterans of a previous generation, and establishes Taylor McCall as a rising Americana star. Taylor McCall is in good company. The Vietnam War has inspired […]

News

Nathaniel Rateliff announces UK dates for 2020

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In support of his anticipated forthcoming solo album, Nathaniel Rateliff is returning to his early acoustic days with the And It’s Still Alright tour which will be heading to the UK and European shores in April. […]

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)

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”