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Year: 2023

Features

2023 – Americana and me… There really is gold on the horizon

December 13, 2023 Tim Martin 0
Looking back at my review of 2022 this year’s theme is much the same. Lots of great music but an ongoing concern about the future, especially that of live music. Moles Club in Bath closed the […]
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Album Reviews

No-No Boy “Empire Electric”

December 13, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0
True stories and high adventures from Asian-American history. No-No Boy is the nom de plume used by Julian Saporiti for his musical adventures, and ‘Empire Electric’ is the third of these. The project developed as the […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: The Rural Alberta Advantage + Zoon, Lafayette, London – 4th December 2023

December 13, 2023 David Chalfen 0
After over 15 years as a trio, with five albums plus a trio of EPs, the three members of Rural Alberta Advantage (namely, Nils Edenloff – lead vocals, guitar, keyboard; Amy Cole – multi-instrumentalist and vocalist […]
Features

I Write The Songs – the second verse

December 13, 2023 Rick Bayles 0
Time for change. Back at the end of June, I wrote the most recent article in this series, featuring the late, great, Cynthia Weil, and said that I would be taking a break over the summer […]
Album Reviews

Sally Anne Morgan “Carrying”

December 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Triumphant Modern Appalachian folk that speaks for embracing a simpler life. There’s currently a particularly rich seam of modern Appalachian music, and  Sally Anne Morgan’s latest release ‘Carrying‘ is amongst the strongest within that subgenre.  It’s […]

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

September 21, 2026 2
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 […]

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

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 […]
Interviews

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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My Politic “Buzzards On A Powerline” – hanging around to see you die

November 18, 2022 0
Today’s song is a powerful condemnation of small town judgement and an unwillingness to accept redemption, the taking of new chances and the leaving youthful errors behind…no matter how hard it might be to do so.  […]
Features

More People Really Should Know About: Sweet Talk

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In March of last year (2024), my phone pinged signalling a message. It was from a good friend of mine, who spends part of his year living in Australia, and it was a video clip, from […]
Live Reviews

Jim White + Cicada Rhythm, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 19th November 2017

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It was pleasing to see a near capacity crowd turn up on a wet and cold Sunday night in Glasgow to see Jim White. Often seen as a cult artist and with an idiosyncratic style that […]

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