Americana News

The legacy left behind by recently-departed artists across all genres dominated the 20th Americana Music Association’s annual Honours and...

The Queen of Nashville Emmylou Harris is writing her memoirs! This revelation, which will delight fans worldwide, lies buried in one of...

Few songwriters have married musical lyrics with journalism like Tom T. Hall who has died at 85. For Hall wrote some of country music’s ...

When it comes to “colourful characters” in modern music, few can match David Crosby. And on the occasion of his 80th birthday, the...

Many stars and big names in Nashville have wasted little time accessing social media to pay tribute to Nanci Griffith, one of Americana...

Americana music has lost arguably the greatest interpreter of its songs with the death of Nanci Griffith at the age of 68. It is believed...

There’s an old adage in country music which goes something like this: To make a good song all you need is a good guitar which can sing as...

Bob Dylan coming virtual to you from a smoky basement Speakeasy, just off Main Street, USA, circa 1930’s. The women in the audience were...

A sure sign that all is getting back to normal in the world – well the music world at least – is when Americana legends the Flatlanders...

If ever there was a fact which best defined the impact of COVID-19 on global music, it is this: 2020 was the first year that Bob Dylan...

A song with the somewhat bland title “Bound for El Paso” belies one of the most imaginative and inspiring Americana releases of the...

Robert Allen Zimmerman (Shabtai Zisi ben Avraham) was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. Bob Dylan turned 80 on May 24, 2021....

Van Morrison is universally known as “Van the Man.” But maybe that should now change to “Pan the Man” following the release of his new...

Forget the circus surrounding abandoned royals Meghan and Harry, real royal class is on display when the Queen of Country Music Loretta...

John Prine must be smiling broadly from up above after the Americana legend won two posthumous Grammy Awards to take his Grammy-winning...

Late last year, sixties music icon David Crosby famously tweeted: “Streaming stole my record money!” Now it seems Crosby has cashed in...

If there was ever a list compiled of the “house-bound Americana stars” of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is every chance that popular...

It has not taken long for the multi-million dollar sale of Bob Dylan’s songwriting catalogue to bring out the first skeletons from his...

When Steve Earle dedicated two albums to the songs of dearly-departed friends – Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark –it probably never crossed...

Tony Rice was the Jimi Hendrix of acoustic music and when he died on Christmas Day, the music world lost the greatest flat-picking...