Americana News

If you have heard some foot-tapping from heaven in recent days, it was probably music legends Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley enjoying...

When asked to name a song linked to a billion-dollar industry, “Happy Birthday” might spring to mind first. But how about...

One might be excused for thinking that music – if not life – has gone full circle when an artist who was once acclaimed as a pioneer in a...

Music legend Robbie Robertson, regarded as a pioneer of what is now known as Americana, has died at the age of 80. And he takes with him...

Colter Wall is what you might call a cowboy’s cowboy. He doesn’t just write and sing songs about riding the prairie. He actually rides...

There was a time when playing piano in a honky-tonk bar would be enough to lose custody of your children, believe it or not? But that is...

If there was blue blood in music, it would be seeping through the veins of Rufus Wainwright. His pedigree is such that it is no surprise...

Nothing personifies Bob Dylan circa 21st Century than Shadow Kingdom, his latest album, released on June 2, which features studio...

The pedestal of Irish folk music which accommodates legends like The Chieftains, The Clancy Brothers and The Dubliners needs to make room...

Rodney Crowell’s reputation as a meticulous – if not perfectionist – songwriter is no better illustrated than on his latest album The...

Few people ever said an unkind word about Gordon Lightfoot. Bob Dylan called him “a rare talent.” John Prine once walked off stage to hug...

It’s official. Bruce’s Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is his masterpiece. Says who? Well The Boss himself, that’s who! Springsteen’s...

Willie Nelson did what you might expect him to do when he celebrated his 90th birthday on April 29, 2023. He was on the road again,...

More than 55 years after Grace Slick helped create psychedelic rock with the Jefferson Airplane hit “White Rabbit,” the same song is...

Van Morrison has stepped down from his righteous political platform and headed back to where he best belongs – the nonpartisan purity of...

It is a known fact that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have an underlying affection for country music. After all, one of Keith’s closest...

If street-wise Texan legend Willie Nelson thought Nashville was the roughest, then spare a thought for a pair of unknown young musicians...

One of the most politically-charged songs released so far this century – certainly in the Americana catalogue – has been made even more...

Bonnie Raitt accentuated the positive, while ignoring the negative, in her latest response on social media following the controversy...

Bonnie Raitt’s shock win in the prestigious Song of the Year category at the 65th Grammy Award, for “Just Like That,” was for many the...