New Riders of the Purple Sage

Classic Clips: Jerry Garcia & David Grisman “Friend of the Devil” – The Late Show, 1993

July 26, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

The 1990s were not a good time for Jerry Garcia despite the fact that the Grateful Dead had reached new levels of popularity following the success of 1987’s ‘In The Dark’, and they were second only […]

Classic Americana Albums: New Riders of the Purple Sage “New Riders of the Purple Sage”

June 9, 2021 Jonathan Aird 8

Named for a Zane Grey novel and often unfairly judged to be just an adjunct of the Grateful Dead, not surprisingly due to the presence of key New Riders’ personnel on early Dead albums, and the […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: New Riders of the Purple Sage “Sweet Lovin’ One”

March 22, 2021 Jason McDonald 0

Having been presented with ‘Wild Mountain Thyme‘ by The Byrds by my colleague Ljubinko Zivkovic last week the only logical step is to follow on with a song by the band New Riders of the Purple […]

VERSIONS: “Dead Flowers”

November 30, 2020 Paul Villers 1

Here we are again with a new “VERSIONS” in which our writers examine the whys and wherefores of different artists treatment of the same tune. This time out Clint West puts ‘Dead Flowers’ under the microscope: […]

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