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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Richard Parkinson

November 20, 2025 Richard Parkinson 6

Every writer faced with distilling the entire history of music into the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time is faced with a need to place some boundaries around the task in order to get some […]

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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Short

November 13, 2025 Andy Short 8

Asking someone to list an all-time top ten of anything can be difficult. It is a personal choice, and what one individual loves, others don’t care for. For this assignment, it is the “Top 10 Americana […]

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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Tim Martin

October 23, 2025 Tim Martin 2

My colleague Paul Kerr asked the key question in his entry for the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time. What exactly is a great song? I took what might be seen as the coward’s way […]

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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Jonny Brick

October 16, 2025 Jonny Brick 1

Yes, it’s a fool’s errand, but this feature helps contributors like me to express their love for particular songs which, to them, define the nebulous americana genre. My top ten includes some of the biggest names […]

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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Martin Johnson

October 2, 2025 Martin Johnson 18

Everybody loves a list, except perhaps the person whose job is to write it in the first place. Picking the top 10 songs in a genre that is known for the quality of its songwriting is […]

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  • The Corner Laughers “Rainbow Cardigan” – contains plausible dance moves
  • Video Premiere: KB Bayley “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime”
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  • AUK Short Cuts: Licking The Moose, The Late Lights, Brian Just, Alex Mason, Jackie Conn and The Jill Students Workshop Project
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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

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“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

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Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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