2024 – Page 197 – Americana UK

Dean Harlem “Red Oak Hill” – heading for those country roads

June 28, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Dean Harlem clearly believes that making music is his role in life – Dean Harlem is originally from Donetsk, Ukraine but his family emigrated to the US when he was 4. He grew up in New […]

Video Premiere: Colour Film “Ghost Town”

June 28, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

The latest single from Canada’s Colour Film is deep and dark and intense. This live version of ‘Ghost Town’ is beautifully arranged and performed, captivating from start to finish. After years performing under his own name, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Jackson Browne Albums

June 27, 2024 Graeme Tait 13

For what is now over six decades, the songs of Jackson Browne have become synonymous with the U.S. West Coast, in particular Los Angeles, his album’s a soundtrack for a post-war generation with a voracious appetite […]

Artwork for Johnny Cash album "Songwriter"

Johnny Cash “Songwriter”

June 27, 2024 Peter Thompson 0

Despite inconsistency in the quality of the songs featured, “Songwriter” is a worthwhile addition to the Cash legacy. The date marking the issue of an album of previously unreleased recordings by The Man in Black is […]

MJ Lenderman to release new album and play UK and Europe shows

June 27, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

MJ Lenderman, the North Carolina-based singer, songwriter and guitarist, has announced his new album, “Manning Fireworks”, which is due out on 6th September 2024, via ANTI-, his studio debut on the label. He had previously announced […]

Danny O;Keefe at Cosumer Unity conference 1981

For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”

July 6, 2026 0

Danny O’Keefe was one of the many folk-oriented singer-songwriters who flourished in the early ’70s, and while he didn’t break through to platinum success, his songs were covered by the likes of Jackson Browne, Elvis Presley, […]

Rodney Crowell “Then Again”

July 6, 2026 0

Forgotten recordings from 20 years ago, which will delight Crowell fans. Then Again was recorded in 2006 with the same band as on Rodney Crowell’s previous three albums, The Houston Kid (2001), Fate’s Right Hand (2003) […]

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Music Festival

July 6, 2026 0

Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

Year: 2024

Dean Harlem “Red Oak Hill” – heading for those country roads

Video Premiere: Colour Film “Ghost Town”

Essentials: The Top 10 Jackson Browne Albums

Johnny Cash “Songwriter”

MJ Lenderman to release new album and play UK and Europe shows

For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”

Rodney Crowell “Then Again”

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Music Festival

Live Review: Sierra Ferrell + The Brudi Brothers, Docks, Hamburg – 1st July 2026

Sounds from beyond the Shed 243 “A game of two halves”