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Hattie Whitehead announces long awaited debut album “Bloom” and releases single ‘Valentine’ – Lovely stuff!

July 3, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Rising UK singer-songwriter Hattie Whitehead has announced details of her debut album “Bloom” which is due out 4th October, and in advance of that has shared the album teaser ‘Valentine’. Watch it below. Whitehead has previously […]

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Sean Keel “Ferals Welcome”

July 3, 2024 Chas Lacey 1

Texas professor finds valuable lessons in everyday experience. Back in ‘Hunky Dory’ days, David Bowie described Bob Dylan as having a voice like sand and glue. That phrase comes to mind on first hearing Sean Keel’s […]

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Dusty Wright “That’s All Right” – deconstructed

July 3, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

A song taken from Dusty Wright’s new album ‘Dusted Off‘ (reviewed here) offering versions of favourite songs that he has enjoyed covering over the years.  This take on Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s tune from 1946 is […]

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Video: Peter Alexander Jobson “Burn the Ration Books of Love”

July 3, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Be absorbed by the latest video from Northumberland singer-songwriter Peter Alexander Jobson.  ‘Burn the Ration Books of Love’ is an incredibly atmospheric song with an epic feel that is matched by the sheer drama of the video.  […]

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Interview: Jared Deck keeps his “Head Above Water”

July 2, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

How politics and songwriting are all about storytelling and red dirt. Chatting with Jared Deck was probably a first for Americana UK as he is an elected Democratic State Representative in Oklahoma, he could also be […]

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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RS Country are carrying a clip this morning, which we embed for you below dear reader, of a surprise appearance by Sturgill Simpson at Tyler Childers’ current shows at the Ryman opening for Margo Price. They […]

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Chatham County Line to release covers album – March

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Hailed by Paste magazine as ”bluegrass innovators,” Raleigh, North Carolina-based quartet Chatham County Line have announced the release of their eighth studio album, ‘Sharing The Covers’, due March 8th on Yep Roc Records. The video for the first single, Wilco’s “I […]

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Taylor McCall “Mellow War”

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‘Mellow War’ is an album by young artist inspired by the veterans of a previous generation, and establishes Taylor McCall as a rising Americana star. Taylor McCall is in good company. The Vietnam War has inspired […]

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