2024 – Page 198 – Americana UK

Kaitlin Butts “Roadrunner!”

June 27, 2024 Helen Jones 2

An often more upbeat departure from form that proves there’s nothing wrong with embracing the more playful side of things. For anyone who has been following Kaitlin Butts’ career for a while, her new album “Roadrunner!” […]

Folk Tracks Roundup, June 2024

June 27, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s time for another Folk Roundup bonus column featuring a bunch of Tracks that we hope you’ll enjoy, covering as they do a very wide range of folk. Hey, there’s even some bluegrass this time – […]

Boulder Fields “With All the Other Ghosts”

June 27, 2024 Clint West 0

Debut solo album with bright and engaging songs. Boulder Fields is the working name of Edinburgh songwriter and musician Cam Fraser. Although he has long been a familiar figure on the Scottish music scene, an earlier […]

Track Premiere: Emily Haavik “DRIVE”

June 27, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

‘DRIVE‘ is addressed to all the men who never relinquish the wheel: “How bout now baby? / You ain’t never let me / Never let me drive.” And of course that’s a metaphor about all the […]

Video Premiere: Scott Collins “Love You More”

June 27, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the new single from Nashville-based Scott Collins. ‘Love You More’ is an absorbing song that begins quietly, an intimate, spare confessional, in which Collins’ echoing, ethereal voice conveys real emotion. Then, the song swells and […]

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 Roots 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

Kaitlin Butts “Roadrunner!”

Folk Tracks Roundup, June 2024

Boulder Fields “With All the Other Ghosts”

Track Premiere: Emily Haavik “DRIVE”

Video Premiere: Scott Collins “Love You More”

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 Roots 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”