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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 10-1

December 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 7
Yesterday we counted down numbers 20-11 in our top albums of 2024 and noted that we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up but that 2024 undoubtedly contained future classics which people […]
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Kenneth Norum “This Too Will Pass”

December 20, 2024 Chas Lacey 0
Reflections on a lost love from multi-talented Norwegian musician. Recorded in his home studio and self-produced, this is the second album from Norway’s Kenneth Norum. With all ten songs written in English, the lyrics largely focus […]
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Video: Johnny 99 “It Can’t Be Christmas”

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Johnny 99 sings that it can’t be Christmas and we know what he means.  His opening lines set the tone: “It’s that time of year for Christmas cheer // And it’s got me feeling low.”  Johnny […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids on “Christmas in A Minor Key”

December 19, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
When it really comes down to these two or three weeks, you want the Nat King Cole of it all. Christmas carolling is a tradition where groups of people bundle up and go door to door […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Christmas Albums

December 19, 2024 Dean Nardi 7
When you think of Christmas, certain words pop into your head like visions of sugar plums. They evoke all the usual trappings of Christmas, words like snow, Santa, reindeer, jingle bells, ornaments, tinsel, lights. Well, it […]

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Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

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An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]
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Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

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The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]
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The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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In this joyful, humorous video premiere, Crimson Calamity have a lot of fun with puppets representing the two best friends in the narrative, Mary and Jane.  It’s the perfect accompaniment to a song that is charming, […]
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Heather Little “By Now”

April 17, 2024 1
Confessional words and a fine supporting cast make for one of the best country-based albums you’ll hear this year. Kicking in with a Ry Cooder style slide from Audley Freed and a gently plucked banjo Heather […]
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Video: The Gaslight Anthem feat. Bruce Springsteen “History Books”

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The Gaslight Anthem have shared a new song ‘History Books’ on their own Rich Mahogany Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. The heavy-hearted track, which sees frontman Brian Fallon trading duet vocals with longtime band champion and […]

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