2017 – Page 287 – Americana UK

Neil McSweeney announces UK dates

February 10, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Sheffield songwriter Neil McSweeney returns next month with a new album “A Coat Worth Wearing” which is produced by noted folk producer Andy Bell and his first release for the new Hudson Records label, which also […]

Justin Currie announces new solo album, video and UK dates – Watch

February 10, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1

Ex Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie will release a new album “This Is My Kingdom Now” on May 12th this year on Endless Shipwreck Records, and you can see the video for the title track below. […]

Transatlantic Sessions, Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 7th February 2017

February 10, 2017 Jonathan Aird 1

The Transatlantic Sessions have become an eagerly awaited annual event which sees Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham joined by an ever changing array of talents from the folk and Americana scenes on both sides of the […]

Ryan Adams on ‘Summer of 69’: “as fine a bridge as I have ever crossed”

February 10, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Ryan Adams has written an op-ed for the New York Times recounting the “heckler” incident which happened back in 2002 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium when he was in the middle of performing Bartering Lines with Gillian Welch and […]

Matthew E White & Flo Morrissey to play Union Chapel

February 10, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Sometimes you meet someone and everything just clicks right away – and that’s what Matthew E White and Flo Morrissey found when they performed together at the Barbican’s Lee Hazelwood celebration back in 2015. At […]