The Desert Rose Band

Essentials: The Top 10 Chris Hillman Songs since 1982

March 16, 2023 Martin Johnson 8

Chris Hillman is now recognised as one of the founding fathers of country rock, and subsequently americana, and has a mantlepiece of awards, including his induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a […]

Classic Clips: Chris Hillman ups the country quotient of “Wheels” with the Desert Rose Band in 1984

May 31, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

This week’s Classic Clip is a little piece of history with Chris Hillman revisiting one of his classic tracks with his then very new band, The Desert Rose Band. Chris Hillman is now recognised as one […]

Whatever Happened to… The Desert Rose Band

May 4, 2021 Rick Bayles 17

If committing Country Rock was ever to be designated a crime, Chris Hillman would go down in history as one of the great serial offenders. Having been an original member of the Byrds he went on […]

Forgotten Artists – Rose Maddox

July 22, 2020 Rick Bayles 5

Welcome to another feature in the FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series, where we take a look at some of the Americana musicians that may just have dropped out of people’s memories or who, perhaps, never received the appreciation […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Ned Roberts “Heavy Summer”

July 5, 2024 2

An album that sees Roberts continue to cement his place as one of this country’s finest singer/songwriters of his generation. London based Ned Roberts has gradually garnered a healthy reputation among this country’s new crop of […]

Tracks

Old Hoss “Smellin’ Like A Rose” – where music meets wrestling

October 4, 2024 0

Old Hoss is the alter ego of Edmonton-born, Toronto-based musician Kris Gies who has switched from hard rock bassman to alt-country, digging into a rough and ready recording style on the album ‘Mid-Atlantic.‘ It’s an album […]

Album Reviews

Sarah Streitz “Yesterday’s Child” (Independent, 2017)

June 11, 2018 1

‘Yesterday’s Child’ is the sophomore release from Minneapolis singer-songwriter Sarah Streitz. Produced by Greg Schutte, whose previous credits include Ryan Bingham, Streitz looks to build on the reputation garnered from her solid 2015 debut ‘Take One’. […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Chris Hillman Songs since 1982

Classic Clips: Chris Hillman ups the country quotient of “Wheels” with the Desert Rose Band in 1984

Whatever Happened to… The Desert Rose Band

Forgotten Artists – Rose Maddox

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”