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Interview: Courtney Marie Andrews

March 29, 2018 Alan O'Hare 0

If ever there was a brighter star in the ascendancy then Arizona’s Courtney Marie Andrews hasn’t bumped into it yet. Over the last eighteen months the evocative and beguiling songstress has risen to the very summit […]

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Jesse Terry “Natural” (Jackson Beach Records, 2018)

March 29, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

On his fifth album Jesse Terry has moved away from his usual roots-rock arrangements for a stripped down and mostly acoustic take on songs familiar from his previous albums – with a cover thrown in for […]

Tracks

Maria Kelly “Small Talk” – Listen

March 29, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

A faltering, introverted, vocal carries this delicate song of social anxiety and an inability to connect with others.  Alienation and anxiety and a tense swell of fear building within her “there’s a storm in my chest […]

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Video premiere: Lilly Hiatt “I Wanna Go Home” (Acoustic)

March 29, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Well this is a little treat to start Bad Thursday with. Lilly Hiatt’s latest album ‘Trinity Lane’ is out now via New West Records and she’s heading to the UK next month for a series of dates. Rolling […]

Album Reviews

Diane Patterson “Open Road” (Independent, 2018)

March 29, 2018 Linda Jameson 1

This album is what the world needs to hear right now. It is a healthy shot of solidarity, support and love. Many of the songs are a rallying call for change but are healing in focus, […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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After gathering plaudits and Grammy nominations for his solo album “Foxes In The Snow”, Jason Isbell is returning to the UK and the EU with his band, the 400 Unit, for a series of shows in […]

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An insight into what makes the Delines’ music so unique. Regular visitors to Americana UK can be in no doubt of the high regard in which the music of the Delines is held. We have spoken […]

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