Country Episodes

Tale 5… Laura Cantrell’s country vibe struck a chord with the Cambridge Folk Festival crowd with her soft, melodious tones wooing the audience. Her 2000 debut album, Not the Tremblin' Kind brought the Nashville-born and New York City-based performer considerable …

Self-taught guitarist Jamie Moses has gone from playing US Air Force bases at the tender age of 13 to stadiums with Queen and Paul Rodgers, not to mention Bob Geldof, The Pretenders, Chaka Khan and even Tom Jones in between. …

British country and folk musician Charlie Landsborough started performing professionally in the 1970s but it wasn’t until he appeared on an Irish TV show in 1994 with ‘What Colour Is The Wind’ that divine intervention opened doors onto a musical …

This was a particularly poignant interview for me as it was recorded the day after the terrorist atrocities at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. But it was a lovely conversation with Whiskey Myers' guitarist, Cody Tate, who showed that …

Gretchen Peters turns found objects into songs I chatted with Getchen after her performance at the Cambridge Folk Festival about song-writing and performing just before she was nominated for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The stage next …

Questioning The Quebes The Quebe Sisters Band are Texas’ favourite Western Swing, Hot Jazz, Country performers and when Grace, Sophia and Hulda sing their vintage style three-part harmony, audiences are mesmerised. This is what they had to say about Texas-style …

Kathy Mattea At The Coalface Grammy-winning country artist Kathy Mattea chatted to me at the Cambridge Folk Festival during her only UK performance of 2010 about her latest release Coal.

One from the analogue vault. More of Allison Moorer please! This edition is one from my archive of analogue recordings from 2007 with the then Mrs Steve Earle. Grammy nominated alternative country singer, Allison Moore, was performing at Cambridge Folk …