2024 – Page 78 – Americana UK

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Guy Clark

October 16, 2024 Martin Johnson 4

Has Guy Clark ever recorded a bad song or released an unlistenable album? Certainly not, so why, you may be wondering include his catalogue in this series? Well, it is because Guy Clark was an acknowledged […]

More People Should Really Know About: Small Town Jones

October 16, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Proudly hailing from Braunton in Devon Jim Jones has been ploughing a particular furrow for the last twenty years or so and despite widespread acclaim (Radio 2 airplay and 4* reviews in Q and Mojo magazines) […]

Double fab! Lucinda Williams announces “Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road”

October 16, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Three-time Grammy Award winning artist and Americana UK readers’ and writers’ favourite Lucinda Williams has announced the release on 6th December 2024 of “Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road”. Recorded at the legendary studio […]

Chris While & Julie Matthews live at The Nettleham Village Hall, Nettleham, Lincoln - 4th October 2024

Live Review: Chris While and Julie Matthews, The Nettleham Village Hall, Nettleham Lincoln – 4th October 2024

October 16, 2024 Graeme Tait 2

Andy Watkins has been promoting folk music in and around Lincoln for close on fifty years and in recent times has found the perfect venue in the Nettleham Village Hall where, along with the support of […]

Artwork for Ted Nunes album "San Joaquin"

Ted Nunes “San Joaquin”

October 16, 2024 Gordon Mackay 0

Californian Ted Nunes releases a well-crafted solo debut with intriguing lyrics. Born and bred in the San Joaquin Valley, Ted Nunes grew up listening to The Grateful Dead and from there discovered singer-songwriters such as John […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2024