Patty Griffin

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Jackson Browne at the Legacy Casino Resort 16 February 2013

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Peter Churchill

December 11, 2025 Peter Churchill 1

If one thing has become apparent from the lists that have appeared on these pages and the, not unsurprisingly, incredibly wide range of songs that have featured to date, it must be that it seems highly […]

Artwork for Patty Griffin album "Crown of Roses"

Patty Griffin “Crown of Roses”

July 25, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

Patty Griffin emotionally dances her way to releasing a very personal but high-quality release. Take a listen, observe a craftswoman at work. Two time Grammy Award winner Patty Griffin is one of the more eminent songwriters […]

Patty Griffin “Born In A Cage” – where has all the habitat gone?

July 2, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The second single from Patty Griffin’s latest album ‘Crown Of Roses’ is a double reflection – there’s the song’s clear theme of the loss of diversity in the wild, and then there’s the personal part where […]

Patty Griffin “Back at the Start”

June 17, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0

Grammy Winner Patty Griffin goes ‘Back at the Start’ on the first single from her new full-length album. Driving drums underpin the track, which has some fantastic spaghetti western/spy movie guitar from David Pulkingham and Griffin’s […]

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