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Wood Hitch “Gentle Reminder” – Listen

October 11, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Wood Hitch are Brady Harris and Rose Shawhan, an LA based duo who make Americana-Folk-Pop as showcased on their new eponymous debut EP.  Brady plays the music, both trade vocals, and the sound is dreamy and […]
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Sean McConnell, Manchester Academy 2, 29th September 2019

October 11, 2019 Helen Jones 0
When Sean McConnell came on stage without fanfare – clad in denim and holding his guitar, testing his microphone before beginning – the audience weren’t prepared for the powerful performance he was about to unleash. Opening […]
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Video: Chris Smither “Time Stood Still”

October 11, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
In the retro slot this week we go back a decade for an unusual live performance by guitar ace Chris Smither, as he’s got a drummer and second guitarist with him who could well be David […]
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Watch Kurt Vile’s short documentary featuring The Sadies

October 10, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
In early September 2018, on the eve of the announcement of his latest album ‘Bottle It In’, Kurt Vile decamped to the Catskill Mountains in upper state New York with friends and fellow musicians to rehearse, […]
Album Reviews

Chance Meyer and the Bloody 98s “Ashdown” (Independent, 2019)

October 10, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 4
Coming from a classic Americana standpoint the Bloody 98s’ album ‘Ashdown’ is a thing of beauty. This is hewn from the same tree as The Rustlanders, Whiskeytown and Bruntnell circa ‘Shot from a Spring’ or ‘Here Comes the […]

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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: 7th = Jason Isbell “If We Were Vampires” (2017)

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Four songs obtained the same number of points but have been split by the number of writers who voted for it. The same number of people (5) voted for this song as one other, but by […]
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Maximiano “Rokeby”

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Maximiano’s second release is an open-hearted, intimate reflection on suffering and change in a divided nation. Out of a ten-day dog-sitting stint in the countryside came Milwaukee-based singer-songwriter Maximiano’s second release: Rokeby. Rokeby is the name […]
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Live Review: Jonny Morgan & The Moral Support + Vic Allen, The Grace, London – 25th March 2026

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A minute’s walk from the Highbury and Islington station is a two-storey venue where concerts take place almost daily. In front is a rambunctious queue, whose comments in Italian identify those awaiting as fans of the […]

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  • Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour
  • Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”
  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)
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Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
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Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

March 30, 2026 0
When it comes right down to it, the heart of americana music has always been about connecting listeners to real experiences and emotions, and Natalie Del Carmen is currently one of the best examples of what […]
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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]

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More Tom Petty tributes roll in

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Chris Stapleton and Margo Price are the latest artists to have paid tribute to the late Tom Petty while performing live shows.  After he died, Margo Price told Stereogum that her favorite Petty song was “Have Love, Will […]
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Cam Penner “Over And Over”

November 13, 2018 0
This is from the excellent Cam Penner’s equally excellent new album At War With Reason.  He’s on tour in the UK with Jon Wood starting at the Green note on November 14th.
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Folk Roundup – Anna Ling, Sinéad Willox, The Haar, Winter WonderBand and a various artists collection from Stafell Sbâr Sain (Sain’s Spare Room)

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It’s December, so we allow our regular folk correspondent, Jonathan Aird, time off to trim his tree, deck the halls, put on his slippers and pour a glass of mulled wine. We are spoilt again this […]

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