2023 – Page 81 – Americana UK

Interview: Thea Gilmore on how a few beats helped release the real Thea Gilmore

October 10, 2023 Martin Johnson 8

Afterlight represented the start of a regeneration. Thea Gilmore is 20 albums and 25 years into her career which on the face of it is not the most obvious point to release her eponymous album, particularly […]

Midlake & John Grant “You Don’t Get To” – no quitters

October 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

So, we were mentioning that John Grant and Midlake had a new double A side single, and doubtless you were wondering, dear reader, what the other A Side was like? Well, it is quite simply John […]

VERSIONS: “Willin’”

October 10, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

Possibly the ultimate trucking song, with its always memorable chorus: “And I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made Driven the backroads so I wouldn’t get […]

Bridget Rian “Nuclear Family”

October 10, 2023 Tim Martin 0

An EP that shows growth in her songwriting and singing and loads of promise. Bridget Rian describes her music as a mix of alternative pop and traditional Americana. The first song ‘Tokyo Drift’, bobs along in […]

Live Review: Rod Picott + Nick Thurtell, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 29th September 2023

October 10, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

Tonight’s headliner at Lincolnshire’s premier Americana music venue, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey sees the return of one of Nashville’s finest singer-songwriters of the last twenty years in Rod Picott. This evening’s show is actually […]