Americana News

Ringo Starr has help from the best in the business on his latest album   If you are a pop music superstar from the era of sex, drugs and...

David Olney was admired as a songwriter's songwriter   If anything best defined dying as unjust, it would be that the circumstances of...

Rosanne Cash's heart-warming tribute to Kris Kristofferson provided a sad highlight of Americana music in 2024   Perhaps the most...

Singer-songwriter great Dwight Yoakam has released his 16th studio album and the first for nearly a decade. In between his last, Dwight's...

“Beatles Go Americana” screamed one headline in the music media when it was announced that Lucinda Williams will release a new album...

Nothing personifies the seemingly-everlasting life of 91-year-old Willie Nelson more than this stanza - The autumn took the rest/ But it...

James Burton has become the 17th artist to be inducted into both the Country Music and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And at 84, Burton is one...

Want to tell the world about your divorce? Maybe even do it with your ex? Even better, why not write a song about it. And better still...

Of all the tributes to music legend Kris Kristofferson in the past week, the one many will remember most was from the daughter of another...

There is no one better qualified to write a eulogy to Kris Kristofferson than the great singer-songwriter himself.   His lyrics were some...

It is now 25 years since a bunch of music executives got together in Austin, Texas, and lamented on the fact that country radio was not...

It is now more than six decades since Tom Paxton was among the founding artists on the famous Greenwich Village music scene in New York...

If you have ever trekked across the expansive landscape of a national park and wondered what music might be suitable on your headphones,...

When Gilliam Welch sang Lord, Tear My Stillhouse Down  in 1996 she could not have imagined that her creative musings would be literally...

There are fewer greater names in country/roots music than John Carter Cash, son of legends June Carter and Johnny Cash and grandson of...

Steve Earle’s standing as a singer-songwriter in the top echelon of Americana artists cannot be denied. And it is no better illustrated...

It is 20 years since the Virginia Assembly designed what was known as The Crooked Road as Virginia’s Music Trail, a 333-mile drive that...

Got a spare 30 minutes? And want to hear 11 original songs that you have never heard before from one of the great voices in modern music?...

Texan Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Californian Dave Alvin are music stalwarts in their respective States, with each having written a classic...

As octogenarian Joe Biden slowly shuffles across the stage at another campaign rally this summer, two of the greatest artists in popular...