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Track Premiere: The Rough & Tumble “Carry You”

April 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler are The Rough & Tumble – and we know what you’re wondering, but no we don’t know which one of the duo is Rough and which one is Tumble. Maybe they […]
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Video: Brian Lopez feat. KT Tunstall “Road To Avalon”

April 20, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Tucson singer-songwriter Brian Lopez once again delivers the sound of the American Southwest in his new single ‘Road to Avalon’.  The song features Scottish singer KT Tunstall, with whom he has toured in the past, and […]
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Snow Patrol guitarist Nathan Connolly to release solo americana album

April 20, 2023 Emily Dongray 0
Tour dates go on sale tomorrow. Former Snow Patrol guitarist, Nathan Connolly, has announced news of a UK and Ireland tour. The five dates in mid-June include London, Glasgow and a hometown show in Belfast’s Limelight […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Golden Smog “Weird Tales”

April 19, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 8
Landing in 1998 Golden Smog’s second album distilled all the promise of the debut “Down by the Old Mainstream” into a cogent musical collaboration taken way beyond the initial excitement of collaborating with friends and co- […]
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The Wood Brothers “Heart is the Hero”

April 19, 2023 Andy Davidson 0
Where the band’s at and how things are. After the better part of two decades, The Wood Brothers are about to release studio album number eight. For ‘Heart is a Hero’ the band decided not to […]

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Around 4pm on 22nd May 2018 I was standing in line outside the London Stadium, waiting for the gates to open for a Rolling Stones show. The wait was made more tolerable by virtue of being […]
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Established Yorkshire songstress reinforces her reputation for excellence with fine mini-album. Any new single release ahead of a new album is always a teaser. After the video premiere of her new single The Losing Hand on […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]

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NOCONA “How Do You Feel?” – pretty good, mostly, slight ache just there, but mustn’t grumble

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Are you, good readers of Americana UK, ready for some music that isn’t Americana?  What?  What?  No, no, calm down, it’s not so bad.  NOCONA, the band from Los Angeles, have spent 12 years denying that […]
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Saltwater Hank “Gal’ üünx wil lu Holtga Liimi” – An Album of Indigenous Resistance

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