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Eliza Edens “We’ll Become the Flowers”

November 1, 2022 Tim Martin 0
Spending time with his album allows it to reveal its tender, contemplative charms – not immediate but very rewarding. Eliza Edens describes her second album as “existentially-minded”. It “seeks to understand what happens after the end. […]
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Track Premiere: Prinz Grizzley “Payback Day (I’ll Give No Warning)”

November 1, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
The Austrian Alps are not, perhaps, the first mountains you tend to think of in relation to Americana, but that’s where you’ll find Prinz Grizzley, aka Chris Comper.  He’s a musician who is happy to swap […]
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Video Premiere: Cavalo55 “Hi’s & Lo’s”

November 1, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out ‘Hi’s & Lo’s’, the debut single from Italian act Cavalo55.  The wide-open spaces of the beautifully-shot video are matched by the expansive, richly-layered music, which swells and grows throughout this finely crafted song.   Produced […]
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Curtis & Loretta “Santa Claus On Halloween” – not a burn by the dude in red

October 31, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1
Here’s the other side of Halloween, handing out candy whilst dressed up in some form of fancy dress.  We can only speculate as to why Curtis Teague chose to dress as Father Christmas, but that is […]
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KB Bayley “Flatlands”

October 31, 2022 Andrew Raw 0
Beautiful lap steel guitar with poignant lyrics. The first thing to say about KB Bayley is what an excellent lap steel guitarist he is. This album is full of beautiful music, beautifully played. It has a […]

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We are mightily delighted to announce today full details for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House on Saturday […]
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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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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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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Bandits on the Run – well, what is going on here?  The modern folk trio we’ve come to know as Bonanza Jellyfish, Roy Dodger and Clarissa are now openly going by their real names of  Adrian […]
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Kashena Sampson “Whole Lot Better” – Listen to the welcome return of a great voice

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All those who saw Kashena Sampson’s first UK appearances in 2019 will have been asking themselves “when’s the next tour?” and “when’s the next album?”  We can answer the second of those – ‘Time Machine‘ will […]
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Video: Craig Greenberg “All the Hate in the World”

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This is a melodic piano-driven song from New York-based Craig Greenberg.  A political song, it was written as a response to the election of President Trump.  Greenberg explains: “I wrote the song in 2016 and it […]

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