An astounding clip from the 1963 television show Star Route, featuring super-hot picking from Glen Campbell and a vocal cameo from Larry & Lorrie Collins. Oh, and George Morgan, who is actually the featured perormer.

Three days of music in the halls and clubs and pubs and nooks and crannies of Brighton. Hundreds upon hundreds of bands. Good, enthusiastic crowds. A well attended industry convention in parallel...

Downloading seems just as far from 'killing music' as home taping was in the seventies. Just as Edinburgh in August can only give you confidence in the energy, creativity and commitment of young people determined to make drama, there's much to savour in the Great Escape's showcase for new…

FTB podcast #164 is a "One-Shot" show featuring new music from
 THE INFAMOUS STRINGBUSTERS,
 TIM CARROLL, 
THE MASTERSONS and 
THE WACO BROTHERS & PAUL BURCH.  There is one huge error, I said that 
THE GHOST HOTEL was the name of a song, rather…

The Refreshments - Ridin’ Along with the Refreshments (Carpe Diem, 2011)

It’s no accident that Sweden’s Refreshments have crossed paths with both Billy Bremner (for Both Rock ‘n’ Roll and…

Review by Douglas Heselgrave With Lukas Nelson, Snoop Dog, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, Billy Joe Shaver, Jamey Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow and more

Heroes are harder than ever to come by in today’s world.  And though it’s not immediately clear who or what the title of Willie Nelson’s newest album is referring to, there’s a certain sense of wistful nostalgia permeating the record that expresses a yearning for bygone days when simply rolling up…

Heidi Talbot Interview 24th March 2011



#Heidi Talbot is currently touring the UK & Ireland (May June 2012)



Singer-songwriter and current star of the nascent British Folk scene; Heidi Talbot was born and raised in Co. Kildare then left to seek her fortune in America before moving back across the water to Edinburgh where she now lives with husband (and Folk superstar) John McCusker and one year old daughter Molly Mae.

As…

About this time last year, Ryan Montbleau traveled to New Orleans to record with some of the greats of New Orleans music.  Producer Ben Ellman (of Galactic) put together an all-star cast, one that Montbleau still marvels over as his new record, For Higher, is about to be released.  

"I wrote a note that's going to be on the back of the record that says I was tempted to call this record George Porter, Jr., Ivan Neville, Simon Lott and Anders Osborne but it seemed a little bit…

On episode 87 of the Taproot Music Show, MC Taylor visits the studio to play acoustic versions of songs from Hiss Golden Messenger's latest release, Poor Moon. He talks to Calvin about how he and Scott Hirsch got started writing music together back in their college days at University of California at Santa Barbara; describes this CD as a sort of gospel CD but that Jesus only has "a cameo or two"; talks about his roots in…

After the war...The Big One...mom, dad and sis lived on Franklin Street just down the street from Mrs. Smith's Pies and I showed up a few years later in '52. Dad went to night school at Drexel on the GI Bill while working nights at the incinerator plant by the Delaware River.

He became a mechanical engineer, and when I was maybe three or four we moved to a small town in West Virginia for about a year. He helped design a new addition to the original Fenton Art Glass factory…

With the music festival season just under way, here's one that has been a little too long under the Americana and roots radar, The Nelsonville Music Festival.

Set in the beautiful rolling hills of Southeastern Ohio, and just a few miles up the road from Ohio University in Athens, the Nelsonville Music Festival holds its 8th anniversary May 18-20, 2012 celebrating music and local artistry of the region.

In 2005, the festival began and took place in the downtown…