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Bluegrass Briefs: Sociograss, Triple Fiddle, The Runaway Strings, Lindsay Lou

September 28, 2026 Tim Martin 0
This time, Bluegrass Briefs features music from around the world and all across the Bluegrass tradition, from the rough and rowdy Scottish ways of Sociograss to the almost classical music of Triple Fiddle from Minnesota and […]
Album Reviews

Sociograss “Made It All Up”

December 3, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0
American roots music in Scotland. From the 1600s Scots emigrants have made a lasting contribution to the music of Appalachia. This album sounds firmly established in that tradition. Sociograss must surely come from somewhere in the […]

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Rainbow Body

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The (Dixie) Chicks at Madison Square Garden, New York, 20th June 2003

Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years

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Videos

Video Premiere: Wyatt Lowe “Deserts” – Let me lay down and rest

October 8, 2026 0
The new single from Wyatt Lowe is immediately captivating. Opening with heavenly steel lifted by light percussion, Desert bursts into life with more urgent and ranging guitar, moody sounds that locate us in the desert. This […]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show

October 7, 2026 0
The Old Crow Medicine Show have been entertaining us throughout the 21st century. Led from the outset by the irrepressible Ketch Secor, they have cycled through some 17 members over that time, including such luminaries of […]
Album Reviews

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

October 7, 2026 0
Dude Cervantes and The Panchos follow up last year’s live record with their second album: a carefully considered studio effort that blends that live energy with focused instrumental and engineering maturity. Billion Dollar Art comes out […]

  • Video Premiere: Wyatt Lowe “Deserts” – Let me lay down and rest
  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show
  • Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”
  • Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album
  • Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years
  • Live Review: My Darling Clementine, Hen & Chicken, Bristol – 1st October 2026
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  • Kelly Hunt “Requiem for a Sleepless Night”
  • Béla Fleck “Tennessee” – with Billy Strings (and a lot of others)
  • Video: The War On Drugs “Who’s That” – love outside of control
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Ben Harper & Rhiannon Giddens “Black Eyed Dog” – Listen

August 11, 2020 0
A collaboration between two artists who really do require no introduction – but when has that ever stopped us ?  Ben Harper of rootsy blues fame, and also noted for work with legends such as Mavis […]
Album Reviews

Amy LaVere “Painting Blue” (Archer Records, 2020)

March 18, 2020 0
‘No Battle Hymn’, the striking first single from ‘Painting Blue’, the fifth album by Memphis-based Amy LaVere, is a timely anthem for a world in crisis. “No one’s ready to admit we may be out of […]
Album Reviews

Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”

April 14, 2026 0
Superb collaboration from an americana legend and bluegrass torchbearers. Well, where to start with Jim Lauderdale? The man is so prolific that the virtual ink on the review of his last album, Country Super Hits Volume […]

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