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Interview: The Lonesome River Band’s Sammy Shelor on “The Winning Hand”

November 19, 2024 Martin Johnson 1

Keeping bluegrass fresh but also keeping an eye on tradition. Bluegrass’s popularity has ebbed and flowed over the years, but whatever has driven any of the particular peaks such as the ‘60s folk revival, the rise […]

The Song Remains: John Mayall (1933 – 2024)

July 25, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Maybe he wasn’t americana but we wouldn’t have americana without his example. It is difficult to overstate the influence that John Mayall, who passed away at home surrounded by his family on 22nd July, had on […]

Interview: Deanie Richardson and Gena Britt of Sister Sadie on “No Fear”

March 19, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Riding the bluegrass wave with their best album of an 11 year career. The all girl bluegrass band Sister Sadie has won various IBMA awards and received a Grammy nomination for their music and has recently […]

The Song Remains: Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023)

May 3, 2023 Martin Johnson 8

His songs reflect his personal experiences and love of Canada, but his music travelled the world. Gordon Lightfoot died on Monday, 1st May, in a Toronto hospital of undisclosed causes, having worked actively until 2022. It […]

Interview: The Gibson Brothers’ Eric Gibson on their Darkest Hour

March 28, 2023 Martin Johnson 2

Mixing country, bluegrass, and ‘70s singer-songwriters to make The Gibson Brother’s sound. The Gibson Brothers have been playing bluegrass for more than thirty years, and have won numerous bluegrass awards and shared the stage and studio […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Lost Tuesday Society “Spinning” – elegant moody folk-rock

March 10, 2022 0

Just when you thought that electric English folk-rock had nothing left to say along come Welsh electric folk-rock band Lost Tuesday Society. Based in Swansea they have the right mix of instruments – Jay Browning (bass) […]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Lucinda Williams “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You”

June 16, 2023 0

Sharing her secrets. Given what an outstanding songwriter Lucinda Williams is, it should come as no great surprise to discover that she writes good prose as well, and this memoir has much of the sparse, dry […]

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Home Life: Doug Hoekstra

April 14, 2020 0

As a regular reader you may well be thinking, ‘not sure those ‘Van Life’ pieces are particularly relevant at the moment given all these musicians are holed up riding out the lockdown.’ And you would of […]

Interview: The Lonesome River Band’s Sammy Shelor on “The Winning Hand”

The Song Remains: John Mayall (1933 – 2024)

Interview: Deanie Richardson and Gena Britt of Sister Sadie on “No Fear”

The Song Remains: Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023)

Interview: The Gibson Brothers’ Eric Gibson on their Darkest Hour

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”