Woody Guthrie

The Song Remains: Joseph Allen “Country Joe” McDonald (1942 – 2026)

March 16, 2026 A.Francis Tritico 0

Country Joe McDonald: Patriot, Provocateur, Punk AF. Country Joe McDonald died on 7th March 2026 at his home in Berkley, California, of complications from Parkinson’s Disease; he was 84. McDonald is best remembered for his revolutionary […]

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 […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana songs about America

October 14, 2025 Tim Martin 13

Our writers continue to deliver articles for this popular Feature on an occasional basis. This week Tim Martin has an interesting take on the series. Americana as a genre spends a fair bit of time exploring […]

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

September 26, 2025 Andrew Raw 1

These home recordings of previously unreleased songs, including some previously not recorded, are a great historical document. The story of this album starts when Woody Guthrie got his first publishing deal in 1950 with Howie Richmond’s […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars”

September 15, 2025 Andy Short 0

Woody Guthrie famously wrote on his guitar, “This machine kills fascists”. The world could certainly do with a return from the great man. The lyrics to Steve Earle’s ‘Christmas In Washington’ ask Guthrie to “Tear your […]

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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 […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Kassi Valazza + Eli Winter, Mono, Glasgow, 26th October 2023

November 1, 2023 0

With Kassi Valazza’s album, ‘Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing’, riding high in my favourite albums of the year it was with a great deal of anticipation that I attended her first Scottish appearance in Glasgow’s hip Mono […]

Videos

Video: Houndmouth “Las Vegas”

November 8, 2021 0

Begin your week with an energetic, foot-tapping song from Houndmouth. When Matt Myers sings: “We came here to win // We didn’t come for the entertainment,” before he dons a crash helmet, it’s a moment of mad, […]

Dirty Dozens

Dirty Dozen : The Coal Flowers

January 5, 2017 0

The Coal Flowers is made up of singer-songwriters Joel Shepherd (lead vocals, piano) and Heather Shepherd (lead vocals). These siblings have been singing together in one form or another since childhood in the Appalachian coalfields of […]

The Song Remains: Joseph Allen “Country Joe” McDonald (1942 – 2026)

Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Raw

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana songs about America

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

For The Sake Of The Song: Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars”

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”