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Video: H.C. McEntire “Baby’s Got The Blues”

June 13, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0
Rising star H.C. McEntire has included her family and community in this great video to accompany the powerful video for Baby’s Got The Blues from her acclaimed album Lionheart.
News

Planet Rock to launch new weekly Americana show

June 12, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Planet Rock, if you didn’t know already, is “where rock lives” – and unlike Mars, it’s fairly easy to get to from any DAB radio in the UK.  Today the station has announced a brand new show […]
Album Reviews

Jarle Skavhellen “The Ghost in Your Smile” (Nettwerk, 2018)

June 12, 2018 Mark Nenadic 2
Scandinavian Alt Folk is a subgenre known only to a select few. However, Norwegian Jarle Skavhellen ably demonstrates that it warrants a far wider audience. This is a quirky, often dark collection of songs. Considering that […]
Album Reviews

Brent Cobb “Providence Canyon” (Low Country Sound/Atlantic, 2018)

June 12, 2018 Mark Johnson 0
Touring his previous album, Brent Cobb rolled into Manchester to play the day after the Ariana Grande massacre. As effectively the next American up, his decision whether to play attracted a lot of attention Stateside, especially […]
Tracks

Josh King “Into The Blue” – Listen

June 12, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Josh King has all the roots-rocker chops you could wish for, on this song melodic guitar lines contend with swirling organ.  ‘Into the Blue‘ – the title track of King’s new album – comes from a […]

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Features

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 3
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 […]
Album Reviews

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

September 21, 2026 0
A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

September 21, 2026 0
“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an old […]

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  • Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”
  • Genre changing Buena Vista Social Club album 30th Anniversary Edition out now
  • Paper Verses “Windstill”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 245 “Stop….thief…”
  • Brown Wimpenny “Shady Grove” – chugs like a fast train
  • Video: Ethan Setiawan & Fine Ground “Ships at Sea” – wonderfully-warm and woozy
  • Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”
  • Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”
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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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Beans On Toast “Not Everybody Thinks We’re Doomed” – is this what you Humans call optimism?

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An uplifting and optimistic new song from Beans on Toast, with support from Blaine & Jack from Mystery Jets.  The world’s unpredictability is what makes it brilliant is the message that Beans wishes to convey, as […]
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Charlie Musselwhite & Ben Harper announce new album

January 26, 2018 0
And the obligatory UK tour – no complaints about that, we’re much obliged.  The new album is called No Mercy in this Land, and is out on the 30th of March on Anti-.  To call Charlie […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start The Fire”

November 1, 2019 0
The Editor – a surly cove to some and a man of wealth and taste to others – has determined that it is time for the Great Americana-UK Towers Decennial Electionfest. Much, much, much more to […]

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