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Steve Earle to be inducted into Songwriters’ Hall of Fame

November 4, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Steve Earle was announced Monday as a 2020 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame — although his honours and those of everyone else inducted this year will have to wait a while because of […]

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The Unsung Heroes of Americana – Martin D28

November 3, 2020 Rick Bayles 3

It’s another article in our Unsung Heroes of Americana series and, following on from his article on the Gibson J-45, Richard Phillips is back with another piece on an instrument that is at the very heart of […]

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Book Review: Todd Westbrook “Americanaville” (Independent, 2020)

October 28, 2020 Richard Phillips 0

Americanaville is a project created by Todd Westbrook that saw its inception as an essay but which has now burgeoned into a series of chapters that are currently available for free at http://tswestbrook.com. Westbrook describes a […]

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Interview: Diana Jones on channelling Appalachian culture and refugees

October 16, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

Diana Jones is a well-respected singer-songwriter with admirers on both sides of the Atlantic. Steve Earle is on record as saying “Diana Jones is one of the best songwriters I have heard in a long, long […]

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Pick of the Political Pops: Steve Earle “Amerika v6.0 (The Best We Can Do)”

September 18, 2020 Paul Villers 0

Recently at Americana UK Towers we set up the cine projector and had our weekly ‘film night’ where we come together as one and enjoy a movie. We had a high old time each with their […]

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Looking forward to reading for pleasure and stilling the whirling head. One of the delights of the much criticised but definitely needed summer holidays enjoyed by those in the teaching profession (and in doing this we […]

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New album includes Dylan c0-write. Listen to the title track below. Buddy & Julie Miller have announced the release of ‘In The Throes’ which lands on September 22nd in the UK via New West Records. The […]

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