February 2024 – Page 17

Artwork fir Session Americana album 'The Rattle and the Clatter'

Session Americana “The Rattle and The Clatter”

February 16, 2024 David Jarman 0

A classy blend of every corner of Americana in a 20-year retrospective from Massachusets-born Session Americana. Session Americana evolved from a jam session at the Toad bar in Cambridge, Massachusets way back in 2003, and ‘The […]

Interview: Clive Carroll on celebrating John Renbourn with “The Abbot”

February 16, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Renaissance music in the morning, Oliver Messiaen for lunch, and Merle Haggard at night. Clive Carroll is a leading British guitarist who was educated at London’s Trinity College of Music. However, he hasn’t let a formal […]

Red Rooster Festival returns for 10th Anniversary

February 16, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

As spring filters into summer, it’s time for 2024’s Red Rooster Festival in Suffolk over the 30th May to 1st June weekend. The festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and features an impressive list of […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 132 “Is it me?”

February 16, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 1

As I write this I have just watched yet another piece of news reporting concerning yet another utterance by the seemingly unstoppable Republican candidate for the American presidency, one Donald Trump. And I just don’t get […]

Brent Amaker and the Rodeo “Philaphobia”

February 16, 2024 Guy Lincoln 0

Performance art, conceptual weirdness or the (slight) return of country-punk? Philophobia is defined as a fear of love. ‘Philaphobia’ is Brent Amaker and the Rodeo’s first proper album in 10 years and their 5th in approaching […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

August 10, 2026 1

Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

August 10, 2026 0

A moving, beautifully crafted collection of songs that refuses to surrender compassion in a fractured world. Chris Pierce has always possessed one of the finest voices in americana, capable of conveying tenderness, conviction and quiet resilience […]

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

August 10, 2026 0

Western folk singer-songwriter and AUK favourite Margo Cilker has announced her third album, Little White Cross, due out October 9 via Fossil Records, a label Cilker recently launched with fellow musician ISMAY. The upcoming 10-song set […]

Month: February 2024