Have a good weekend people, enjoy the melodic sunshine as someone who used to frequent these parts once said!  Rolling Stone reports: "A previously unreleased Bob Dylan song lyric entitled "Go Away You Bomb" will be auctioned by Christie's on June 26th. The song was written by Dylan in 1963 for Izzy Young of the Greenwich Village Folklore Center. "I asked everyone I knew to write a song about the nuclear bomb," Young tells Rolling Stone. "Bob Dylan came in literally the next day and handed this to me.""

The SummerTyne Americana Festival has announced Martha Wainwright as headliner, with special guest Sam Amidon, at The Sage Gateshead on Saturday 20th July. The festival takes place over three days at The Sage Gateshead from Friday 19th- Sunday 21st July 2013.  Opening for Martha will be Vermont born folk singer Sam Amidon on the back of his debut release “Bright Sunny South” for Nonesuch records, who has recently collaborated with Bill Frisell and Beth Orton among others and performed with Martha Wainwright in NYC.

The Suffolk based americana and roots Maverick festival has announced a rather exciting addition to their already bursting programme in July. The legendary Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Brothers bass player Ian Dunlop will be in conversation with the Guardian‘s Tim Dowling on Saturday 6th July.  Ian will discuss his life on the road with Gram and his book, “Breakfast in Nudie Suits“ which documents their experiences together in the late sixties.