2024 – Page 204 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: Morgan Wade “Moth to a Flame”

June 21, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Wll that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a brand new song by Virginia’s Morgan Wade who returns in August with her upcoming album “Obsessed”. Wrought with yearning, ‘Moth […]

Interview: Willy Vlautin on novels, songwriting, guitars, and horses

June 21, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Willy Vlautin was at home just outside Portland Oregon when we spoke with him. Having just completed a tour supporting his latest novel ‘The Horse’ and preparing to come back for a short tour with the […]

Preview: Phil Lee and Tommy Womack head to England and Scotland for dates

June 21, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

In July 2024, americana legend Phil Lee will be returning to the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean for a series of dates in England and Scotland. For the Scottish dates, he will be accompanied by […]

Classic Clips: Bombay Bicycle Club “Motel Blues” from On Track with SEAT, 2013

June 21, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

I’ve always enjoyed throwing a bit of a spanner in the works or slightly subverting a convention and I’m afraid that my contribution to this great series may be seen as just that but please bear […]

Album cover artwork for Seasick Steve's "A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees"

Seasick Steve “A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees”

June 21, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

The blues fused with other genres to very good effect. Just over halfway through this, Seasick Steve’s fourteenth album, comes the track ‘Funky Music’ with the words “The blues been calling me/ All of my life/ […]

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

Something for the weekend: Morgan Wade “Moth to a Flame”

Interview: Willy Vlautin on novels, songwriting, guitars, and horses

Preview: Phil Lee and Tommy Womack head to England and Scotland for dates

Classic Clips: Bombay Bicycle Club “Motel Blues” from On Track with SEAT, 2013

Seasick Steve “A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees”

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”