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Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters + Adriana Spina , The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen, 12th September 2018

September 19, 2018 Jim Finnie 0

The venerable Blue Lamp in Aberdeen is something of a hidden gem, its unassuming frontage concealing not just one of the city’s oldest bars but also an adjoining, intimate and atmospheric music venue. It’s been the […]

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Gregory Alan Isakov “Evening Machines” (Dualtone, 2018)

September 19, 2018 Mark Johnson 0

Gregory Alan Isakov is the kind of artist of whom -if one were not a devoted follower – there would only be a vague awareness without quite knowing why. The distinctive name helps, but it’s his […]

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Gram Parsons “Streets of Baltimore” – Listen

September 19, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Forty five years since the Grievous Angel checked out.  An electric band and drums?  In country?  That’ll never work.  Thanks for shaking things up Gram.

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Video: JP Harris “JP’s Florida Blues #1”

September 19, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

A fun video for this rollicking track taken from JP Harris’ new album Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing, out on October 5th and just given 9/10 here at Americana UK.

Album Reviews

Kris Gruen “Coast & Refuge” (Mother West, 2018)

September 18, 2018 Graham McCusker 0

“‘Coast & Refuge’ is the fourth studio album from Vermont native Kris Gruen, following 2013’s critically-acclaimed ‘New Comics From The Wooded World’. It’s been an eventful few years for the singer-songwriter, sharing stages with the likes […]

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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

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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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This week at Waterloo Station you can find the sights and sounds of Tennessee, and if that’s not enough Tennesseean goodness for you then fear not because the Nashville Meets London Music Festival music festival returns […]

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