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Alison Brown and Steve Martin’s star-studded collaboration due mid-October

October 2, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

GRAMMY Award-winning banjoists Steve Martin and Alison Brown have announced their collaborative album, “Safe, Sensible and Sane”, which will be released on 17th October 2025 via Compass Records. Featuring guest appearances from big names like Jackson […]

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Alison Brown and Steve Martin “Wall Guitar (Since You Said Goodbye)” – featuring Vince Gill

November 19, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

A new song from Alison Brown and her talented sidekick Steve Martin is always welcome.  Their latest collaboration began as a gentle clawhammer banjo melody and evolved into a wistful song about unrequited love, shimmering with […]

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New eleven song Johnny Cash announced for June

April 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

The emergence of new material from the late Johnny Cash is always special and a collection of songs written by the great man even more so.  The announcement of the release of ‘Songwriter’ via Mercury Nashville […]

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Video: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley “Brown-Eyed Women”

February 3, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Country legend Vince Gill supplies vocals on this new song from the Grammy-nominated duo, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley.  It showcases their excellent finger-picking and slide guitar and the pair’s vocal performance offers a very hummable […]

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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That’s the year, not over two thousand awards. Paste reports: “Last night, the 15th annual Americana Music & Awards Show was held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. The Americana Music Association prides itself on […]

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I have talked several times in these articles about my father and his descent into dementia. He now resides in a care home, which has, in turn, released my mother (87) from fifteen years of increasing […]

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Video Premiere: The Jorgensens “Storyville”

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Now this, this is just wonderful.  A slinky soulful song by Kurt Jorgensen and Brianna Tagg-Jorgensen from their forthcoming album ‘The Lexington Stretch‘, out on September 13th.  If there’s any more like this one it (and […]

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