2024 – Page 152 – Americana UK

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Interview: Grace Pettis has crafted her music “Down to the Letter”

August 8, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

This Alabama-raised working woman is on a mission to create meaningful music. Grace Pettis’ new album is “Down to the Letter,” released in June 2024 on MPress Records (CD, vinyl and digital). It has been three […]

Award winning Americana DJ Mike Ritchie celebrates 10 years on the air

August 8, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

As many will be aware, Celtic Music Radio presenter, Mike Ritchie, celebrated ten years of broadcasting on the Glasgow-based community station on Sunday 4th August 2024. Ritchie, who is a two-time winner of the AUK Readers’ […]

Ring that Olympic bell! Peter Bruntnell’s back with new album and tour

August 8, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Peter Bruntnell has announced the release of his fourteenth or fifteenth (count them!) album – “Houdini and the Sucker Punch” comes out on October 4th on Domestico Records. It follows in the wake of 2021’s “Journey […]

Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 5th-7th July 2024

August 8, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

As promised, here’s part two of our Maverick Festival experience. Prior to coming over for the Maverick Festival, Jerry Joseph had played three shows in 24 hours at the High Sierra Festival in California, before driving […]

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit announce “Live From The Ryman Vol 2”

August 8, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Southeastern Records has announced the release, on 4th October 2024 of “Live From The Ryman Vol. 2”, the new live album from Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit. The new album draws from multi-track recordings by the […]

Classic Clips: Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, Gordon Lightfoot’s home, 1975

July 3, 2026 1

No doubt some really clued up expert on the Rolling Thunder Revue can pinpoint the actual evening that this clip comes from, but enough to say that it is footage captured whilst Joni Mitchell was on […]

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Fruit Bats “The Landfill”

July 3, 2026 0

After a gap of a mere nine months, Eric D. Johnson returns with a new Fruit Bats offering – the americana world should rejoice. We really need to get something out of the way immediately. The […]

Hell in a Handcart – making a profit for “The Man”

July 3, 2026 0

“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act” – George Orwell “Well I woke up this morning…” as legendary blues numbers are won’t to have it. Normally my next line would […]

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