The Byrds

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Darren Lumbroso

January 22, 2026 Darren Lumbroso 4

Lists of popular songs have been around for more than a century. The US music trade paper Billboard began publishing a rundown of the top ten best-selling pieces of sheet music in June 1913. By January […]

Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Raw

December 4, 2025 Andrew Raw 5

Under Andy Short’s recent Top 10, there was praise from a reader for his choices that had “objectivity and historical context” as opposed to others, which had been “Some songs I like”. The reader, it has […]

The Long Ryders in Copenhagen - May 2023

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 […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Teenage Fanclub

October 1, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Teenage Fanclub were formed in Glasgow in 1989 by guitarists Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley, drummer Francis Macdonald and bassist Gerard Love. Blake, McGinlay and Macdonald had all initially been in the same band, the Boy […]

Classic Clips: Marty Stuart and The Fabulous Superlatives, ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’, The Egg Center for the Performing Arts, September 18, 2018

September 26, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0

After a weekend full of roots music at the FreshGrass Festival, North Adams, MA, I had the very good fortune to find myself three days later in Albany, NY in time to catch Roger McGuinn and […]