Americana News

The age-old feud between the various factions of country music has escalated sharply after the Country Music Association (CMA) ignored...

When Marty Stuart was around 12 years old, his father took him to a Bill Monroe concert in Jackson Alabama. The pair later met Monroe...

The outlaw-country music genre has lost its second great singer-songwriter within a week, with the death of Billy Joe Shaver on October...

The venue was the Variety Playhouse in Little Five Points, Atlanta. It was the Fall of 2002. Onstage was Jerry Jeff Walker, a stalwart of...

Would you buy an album with a cover of the artist sitting on a lawn mower? Well if the singer is Sturgill Simpson, it might pay! For that...

Forget the end of live gigs and the subsequent emergence of virtual concerts. Forget the struggle of live performers and promoters. Even...

Just when Americana music, and its sometime bland promotion, appears to be selling itself as a homogenised tub of nothingness, out comes...

Steve Earle has announced that his tribute to late son Justin Townes Earle will be an album of songs written by Justin, who died on...

The curse of the coronavirus continues to plague the music industry, with the Americana Music Association (AMA) suddenly postponing their...

Was there something prophetic when Justin Townes Earle declared in a podcast interview with Rolling Stone last year: “I’ve been on this...

There may never have been country rock without Chris Hillman. But to say he alone pioneered the genre would be unfair, largely to a...

First it was the singers. Now it is the songs. In these politically-charged days, anything containing the “D” word is dynamite – to be...

Three Americana legends – lifelong friends Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell – lifted the pandemic gloom when they performed...

When the Dixie Chicks ditched Dixie for just The Chicks, they not only took the name of another act, it seems they have somewhat adopted...

Within a week of releasing a lockdown-inspired album, Gillian Welch has announced there are more releases in the wind. This time it will...

All the good times are past and gone! It sounds like a lockdown lament. And in some ways it is! For All the Good Times is the title of...

In July 1986 Columbia Records dropped Johnny Cash – one of the most prolific recording artists of all time - after almost thirty years....

Here is a tip for aspiring (or established) songwriters. If someone says your song is just awful - and you’re even inclined to agree –...

It is almost twenty years since John Hartford died. And please don’t say John Who? For it is genuinely recognised that John Hartford was...

Reviews of any Bob Dylan album – and there have been a few – seem to bring out both the best and worst in music reviewers. Rough and...