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Steven Adams returns with new band The French Drops – Listen

February 28, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Ex Broken Family Band-er Steven Adams is back with his new band The French Drops – featuring members of The Drink – and a new album ‘Virtue Signals’ which is due out via Hudson Records on 4th May. They’ll be heading […]
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Christof van der Ven “Killed This Stone Dead” – Listen

February 28, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Showing his youthful musical influences of 1960’s American and English folk, Christof van der Ven is a singer-songwriter who is about to release his debut album from which ‘Killed this stone dead’ is taken.  In his […]
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Owen Williams “Standing Still Will Kill You” (Independent 2018)

February 28, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0
Opening with the Gospel-tinged ‘Else The Devil Try’ and then dragging the choir into the far more country rocky ‘The Man Who Ate The Hurricane’ sets Williams’s stall out as a purveyor of the gothic country […]
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The Hanging Stars, the Victoria, Dalston, London, 22nd February 2018

February 28, 2018 Mark Underwood 0
The Hanging Stars brought the sound of summer to the Victoria pub in Dalston on an otherwise cold and dismal February night last Thursday. Launching their sophomore release, ‘Songs for Somewhere Else,’ The Hanging Stars were appropriately […]
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Video: The Mastersons “Don’t Tell Me To Smile”

February 28, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0
A great video for a great song from Americana UK faves The Mastersons.

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Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Ringo Starr “Long Long Road”

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Another valiant effort that proves one of Liverpool’s most famous exports can fit in comfortably in Nashville. If you’re ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, it’s got to be tough to feel like you’re always living in the shadow […]
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We’re back! It has been some time since we posted a Cajun Corner article, but we’re resolved to be more proactive about bringing you news and updates on Cajun & Zydeco music, because we know there […]

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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

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Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]

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Amigo The Devil announces UK and Ireland July tour dates

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US singer-songwriter Amigo the Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) has announced a short tour of the UK and the Republic of Ireland in July. He will be accompanied by his band promoting his most recent studio album […]
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Video: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings “I Just Came Home for the Memories”

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The inseparable americana duo of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings can do no wrong. Here they take part in a tribute record for John Anderson that was produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and noted […]

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