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Month: December 2017

Live Reviews

Tom Russell, The 100 Club, London, 1st December 2017

December 4, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
It doesn’t pay to be late to a Tom Russell gig, you might miss the opening act who takes the stage to do a little “guess that tune” as he plays snippets of road songs. A […]
Videos

Video: Jarrod Dickenson “Christmas Time In The City”

December 4, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0
As it’s December we can start getting into this sort of thing, particularly when it’s as good as this new single from Americana-UK fave Jarrod Dickenson.
Album Reviews

Various “13 Days Of Xmas” (Bloodshot Records 2017)

December 1, 2017 Tim Merricks 0
Christmas comes but once a year and for the country community it’s the perfect excuse to drip an extra tear into the beer and mourn another year of lost love and lonely hearts. 13 Days Of […]
News

Pick of the Political Pops: Graham Nash “Military Madness”

December 1, 2017 Paul Villers 1
This week at Americana-UK Towers we have mostly been thanking our lucky stars. Thankful that we have The Bunker to repair to in times of extremis, thankful that the code to get into the bunker is […]
Live Reviews

Ian Felice + Gill Landry, The Borderline, London. 27th November 2017

December 1, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0
Pretty much a sell out at the revamped Borderline for Ian Felice’s first solo foray to these shores. It’s been a busy period what with a new baby, propping up the excellent Conor Oberst’s album and […]

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Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

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Track Premiere: Gary Marks “Where We Started”

September 22, 2026 0
On his new song, Gary Marks turns his songwriter vision on recent events in his homeland, starting from an unprecedented riot in Washington to the, perhaps, surprising eventual fallout from that event. As Marks explains: “I […]
Videos

Video: Prinz Grizzley “A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling)” – There’s a devil in me waiting

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Here’s the absorbing new single from Prinz Grizzley, also known as singer-songwriter Chris Comper. A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling) has sparse beginnings, but the musical tension builds dramatically as Comper delivers an incredibly intense […]
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Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

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If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

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  • Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”
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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 […]
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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. […]

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