July 2017 – Page 16 – Americana UK

Peter Graham “Nowhere in Tacoma” (Skyefarmrecords, 2017)

July 18, 2017 Peter Churchill 0

Peter Graham is a Canadian singer-songwriter from the village of Millbrook, Ontario. Despite having a decade of song writing behind him this 5 track EP, Nowhere in Tacoma, is his debut. His music blends traditional country […]

Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers announce new album

July 18, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers will release “The Long-Awaited Album” on Rounder Records/Decca Records on 22nd September. The record is Martin’s newest collaboration with the Grammy-winning North Carolina-based band the Steep Canyon Rangers, and “full of […]

Roxanne de Bastion, York City Screen Basement Bar, York, 4th May 2017

July 18, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

Support for this show is from ‘Fawn UK’, part, it would appear, of York’s hip crowd. Her teenage vigour makes me feel old; reading lyrics from an iphone for a new song rather than a fag […]

Micah P Hinson – “Oh, Spaceman” – Listen

July 18, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Idiosyncratic Americana troubadour Micah P Hinson returns with a new album Presents The Holy Strangers, out on Full Time Hobby on 8 September. Oh, Spaceman is the first track made available from it – and it’s […]

Paul McClure and the Local Heroes “Paul McClure and the Local Heroes” (Clubhouse Records, 2017)

July 18, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

Given the number of gigs he plays up and down the country it comes as something of a surprise to find that Paul McClure, aka the Rutland Troubadour, has managed to find the time to record […]

Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

September 22, 2026 1

One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. .Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]

Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

September 22, 2026 0

Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0

Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]

Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1

As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0

Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

Essentials

Essentials: The Top Ten Christmas Albums

December 19, 2024 7

When you think of Christmas, certain words pop into your head like visions of sugar plums. They evoke all the usual trappings of Christmas, words like snow, Santa, reindeer, jingle bells, ornaments, tinsel, lights. Well, it […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Hannah White “Car Crash”

March 31, 2022 0

It is rare that a song delivers an emotional impact quite like ‘Car Crash’, the latest single from Hannah White. Right from the simple, direct and disarming opening line: “They want to take my baby,” you […]

Album Reviews

Jenn Grinels “Go Mine”

January 12, 2021 0

Portland-based ‘indie Americana’ singer-songwriter goes soul-pop and jazz-blues, with mixed results According to the press material accompanying her new album, ‘Go Mine’, Portland ‘indie Americana’ artist Jenn Grinels has ‘eschewed the pristine production techniques you hear […]

Month: July 2017