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Emmylou Harris has received rave reviews for final shows in Glasgow and Dublin     Emmylou Harris has dipped the proverbial toe in Europe’s musical waters with lauded concerts in Glasgow and Dublin which provide a preview to her much-published last “European Farwell Tour” in mid-year. The two shows saw Harris further enhance her long-held status as the Queen of Americana Music. ...


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Joe Ely who died at 78 left behind many Americana classics   When the Flatlanders were formed in the West Texas town of Lubbock in 1971, no one had ever heard the term Americana music. But the eclectic mix this likeable trio would produce in the early 70’s laid the foundation for the Americana genre when it was formally inducted nearly 30 years later. Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilm...


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In what must be Americana Photo of the Year, folk legend Joan Baez is pictured with six of the finest female singers in modern music. From left: Margo Price, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Baez, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris. It was the movies not necessarily the music which had Americana fans enthralled in 2025. For two of the greatest singer-songwriters in mo...


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Willie Nelson, Bobbie Nelson and Paul English backstage in New Orleans in July 2014   Two great musicians who were always 20-feet from stardom - to borrow the title of an Oscar-winning documentary – would have found this year of particular significance had they both not passed. Drummer Paul English and pianist Bobbie Nelson played in Willie Nelson’s famous band, The Family, for ...


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Gordon Lightfoot's ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald " transformed a story about just another shipwreck into international folklore   It is now 50 years since the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, with the loss of 29 lives. So what, you might rightfully ask? For there have been greater shipwrecks in peacetime through the years, w...


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