2024 – Page 187 – Americana UK

For the Sake of the Song: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Lodi”

July 8, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Getting a namecheck in a song is one way for a town to bring in tourists. Winslow, Arizona will forever be deemed a place to take it easy but for one town in northern California, a […]

Review – Black Deer Festival 2024: Guaranteed musical brilliance

July 8, 2024 Andrew Frolish 3

In June, Black Deer Festival returned for its fifth edition although it feels as though it has been around forever. It has quickly become synonymous with the very best of Americana, finding an enticing balance between […]

Paper Wings “Listen To The World Spin”

July 8, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

Perfection. That’s it. After a three year break from recording together, and on their third album, Emily Mann and Wila Frank, known together as Paper Wings, have placed an indelible mark on the modern folk old […]

Live Review: Aoife O’Donovan with the Guildhall Session Orchestra, The Barbican, London – 18th June 2024

July 8, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

One cannot but reflect that Aoife O’Donovan likes to do things at either end of a musical spectrum – having recently been performing her version of Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska‘ in a solo acoustic show – she has […]

Artwork for The Georgia Sea Island Singers album - Friends of Old-Time Music

Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers with Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ed Young “The Complete Friends of Old-Time Music Concert”

July 8, 2024 Viv Fish 0

How a live recording of a concert can preserve one powerful moment indelibly in time. “We are on the road to world peace, freedom, and integration”, declares ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1965, as he introduces this […]