Tag Archives: Americana music

Various artists’ Sing Me The Songs: Celebrating The Works Of Kate McGarrigle

Posted on 5th March 2025 by Gary Whitehouse

After Kate McGarrigle died of cancer in 2010, her children Rufus and Martha Wainwright and her sister and longtime singing partner Anna McGarrigle organized a series of tribute concerts in London, Toronto and New York. This album presents on two … Continue reading →

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Doug Sahm and Band’s Doug Sahm and Band

Posted on 28th February 2025 by David Kidney

I remember buying this album in 1973 when it first came out. It had such a cheesy cover, although I notice now that the cartoon portraits were drawn by Gilbert Shelton, underground comics genius and creator of The Fabulous Furry … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records 1963-1973

Posted on 8th February 2025 by Gary Whitehouse

Roots music, particularly blues, folk and even bluegrass, were the basis of huge chunks of ’60s rock and other popular music. Nowhere is that more evident than in this superb new Rhino collection of music from Elektra. Subtitled The Golden … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan’s Good As I Been To You

Posted on 7th February 2025 by Gary Whitehouse

I hadn’t paid much attention to Bob Dylan for a few years, other than his participation in The Traveling Wilburys, when his 1992 album Good As I Been To You got a good review in Rolling Stone (to which I … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume One

Posted on 6th February 2025 by David Kidney

Is there a more important singer-songwriter? Has there ever been? When first I heard Dylan was writing a book — another book — I worried. Would this be Tarantula revisited? I remember Tarantula all too well. In 1966 the bookstore … Continue reading →

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Four books about Bob Dylan, reviewed in free verse

Posted on 4th February 2025 by David Kidney

Carl Benson’s The Bob Dylan Companion: Four Decades Of Commentary Clinton Heylin’s Bob Dylan: A Life In Stolen Moments, Day By Day 1941-1995 Paul Williams’s Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, The Early Years 1960-1973 Paul Williams’s Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, The … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan’s New Morning, and Dylan & the Dead; and Bob Dylan & The Band’s Before the Flood and The Basement Tapes

Posted on 4th February 2025 by Charles de Lint

I’m a big fan of the remastered series of Bob Dylan’s catalogue that Columbia’s been piecing out to us over the years. I don’t think they sound as good as pristine copies of the original vinyl, but for digital versions, … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life

Posted on 4th February 2025 by Charles de Lint

There’s a funny thing that happens whenever Dylan releases an album that the critics like (I think it averages out at one every three releases). When they fall all over themselves praising an album, as they did 2006’s Modern Times, … Continue reading →

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James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown

Posted on 1st February 2025 by Gary Whitehouse

A lot has been said and written about A Complete Unknown, pretty much all of it of it good. There are so many ways for a movie like this to go wrong, and director James Mangold seems to have avoided … Continue reading →

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Ry Cooder 1972-1995: An omnibus review

Posted on 29th January 2025 by David Kidney

Ry Cooder (Reprise, 1970) Into The Purple Valley (Reprise, 1972) Boomer’s Story (Reprise, 1972) Paradise & Lunch (Reprise, 1974) Chicken Skin Music (Reprise, 1976) Showtime (Warner Bros., 1977) Jazz (Warner Bros., 1978) Bop Til You Drop (Warner Bros., 1979) Borderline … Continue reading →

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