2024 – Page 63 – Americana UK

Jerry Joseph launches livestream webcast ‘OIL’

October 29, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Portland’s Jerry Joseph, the prolific and accomplished songwriter, powerful performer and notable campaigner is coming to the UK to promote his new venture “OIL”, his new livestream, ‘Where music, spirit and community meet’, which launched in the […]

artwork for Amy Speace album "The American Dream"

Amy Speace “The American Dream”

October 29, 2024 Chas Lacey 1

Songs of innocence and experience form a poetic musical memoir. Amy Speace will be familiar to many as the winner of the UK Americana Music Association’s 2020 International Song of the Year Award for ‘Me and […]

Track Premiere: Carolyn Kendrick “Leela”

October 29, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Carolyn Kendrick has been busy – and started early. Raised in Stockton, Calif., and Seguin, Texas, Kendrick began studying violin at age 4. She “found her place musically” in Berklee College of Music’s American roots program […]

Video Premiere: John Surge and The Haymakers “Gold”

October 29, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

LA-based John Surge and The Haymakers deliver another compelling tune, full of urgent rhythms and atmospheric guitar. The single is a re-imagining of the 1979 John Stewart hit ‘Gold’, brought up to date and transformed into […]

Interview: Ron Sexsmith on turning 60, making his new album in London, and the art of songwriting

October 28, 2024 Sean Hannam 0

Ahead of his two ‘Sexsmith At Sixty’ UK shows, in Manchester and London, Ron Sexsmith contemplates getting older and looks back at his 30-year career. Canadian singer-songwriter, Ron Sexsmith, turned 60 earlier this year. As part […]

Dean Owenswith John Convertino and Joey Burns

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

September 24, 2026 0

It’s week 2 of the search for our writers’ Top 10 UK americana albums, and Jonathan Hincks will doubt add to the debate with his choice, as follows: With the hands of the Doomsday Clock edging […]

Album artwork for The Fool by Embla and the Karldotters

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

September 24, 2026 0

Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

Year: 2024

Jerry Joseph launches livestream webcast ‘OIL’

Amy Speace “The American Dream”

Track Premiere: Carolyn Kendrick “Leela”

Video Premiere: John Surge and The Haymakers “Gold”

Interview: Ron Sexsmith on turning 60, making his new album in London, and the art of songwriting

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”