Attending Princeton and the challenges of clawhammer banjo and borrowing Wynonna Judd’s husband. Americana UK doesn’t normally interview artists who have only just released their debut record simply because their backstory isn’t normally sufficiently developed to […]
In my recent little trawl through the Americana music of Louisiana we’ve had Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop so, finally, we come to a close cousin, Swamp Rock. Swamp Rock started to be identified as a […]
Did you know a songwriter is like a shark that never sleeps? When asked to describe the process of creating a song, some writers, as we’ve already seen in this series, talk about their music first […]
Back in April we published ’10 cool songs about Jesus’ and it proved to be immensely popular. So, in the spirit of our well-renowned adherence to, ahem … the principles of balance and impartiality – or […]
Jerry Jeff Walker, Mr. Bojangles to many, died on Friday 23 October 2020 from complications arising from throat cancer first diagnosed in 2017. In his 50 plus years career, Jerry Jeff Walker was a singer-songwriter, song […]
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