Americana News

The creative license of songwriters to implicate individuals - either living or dead - in their work has suddenly been brought into sharp...

Every so often, the release of an artist’s debut album reveals a feel-good story in the music industry. And this is a one of the best! It...

Jerry Garcia’s magnetic influence on bluegrass music – and indeed his early obsession with the genre – has finally been formally...

Few could imagine that in post-war London, there was a teenage boy dreaming of being a musical guitar-in-hand vagabond playing chords and...

How does an artist cram 60 years of singing and song-writing - among some of the greats in the music business - into two and a half...

While all the hype at the 2024 Grammy Awards may have surrounded Taylor Swift and/or Barbie songs, there was a wonderful moment - lost on...

It is now more than thirty years since three of the finest musicians to ever strap an acoustic instrument over their shoulders decided to...

Bonnie’s Raitt’s surprise – and deserved - triumph at the 65th Grammy Awards was the clear highlight of Americana Music in 2023. It was...

And the award for the most inventive covers album of the year – maybe all-time - goes to … Chan Marshall for her November 10 release Cat...

It may have taken almost 50 years, but Emmylou Harris has finally re-recorded a song she first did with Bob Dylan on Desire - one of his...

It is a half century since a bunch of good ole boys joined an original Deadhead and his offsider to deliver what many believe is the...

It is 50 years since the death of Gram Parsons, an event so bizarre it would forever overshadow his achievements as not only one of the...

It must have crossed the mind of the great John Prine sometime in his colourful life that he could – and maybe should – have written...

The Americana Music Association has anointed The Recording Academy’s controversial decision to award Song of the Year to Bonnie Raitt’s...

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...