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Robert’s Western World celebrates 25 years with street party and livestream

August 1, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Any music fan who has visited Nashville will have spent at least one evening at Robert’s Western World on Lower Broadway. In 2024, the venue, known as Nashville’s Home of Traditional Country Music, is celebrating its […]

Red Rooster announces first names for 2023 lineup

January 4, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Red Rooster has announced the first wave of artists performing at its eighth festival of Americana in 2023. Among the names announced is the Grammy award-winning blues artist Fantastic Negrito who had a new album ‘White […]

Various Artists “Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver”

November 15, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

A salute to a songwriter of “eloquent simplicity”. According to Ray Wylie Hubbard, “Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Billy Joe Shaver were the Holy Trinity of Texas songwriters”. “My favourite songwriter” is how Johnny Cash […]

artwork for Dropkick Murphys album "This Machine Still Kills Fascists"

Dropkick Murphys “This Machine Still Kills Fascists”

September 29, 2022 Graeme Tait 0

Amplifier’s turned off as Massachusetts rockers breathe fire into Guthrie’s lyrics, strikingly relevant for such times as these. For well over twenty years Dropkick Murphys have unapologetically delivered their brand of American Celtic Punk Rock supplying […]

Dropkick Murphys revive Woody Guthrie songs – new single out now

September 16, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Dropkick Murphys have released a new single and video, ‘Ten More Times‘ from the forthcoming album ‘This Machine Still Kills Fascists‘. The new album will be released digitally and on CD on September 30th via the […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

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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