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Live Reviews

Live Review: Transatlantic Sessions 2025, Royal Festival Hall, London, Sunday 9th February 2025

February 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
Over the last thirty years, growing out of BBC sessions and star spots at Celtic Connections, Transatlantic Sessions have become – to borrow from Chesterton – The Flying Folk Club.  And not just as a travelling […]
Album Reviews

JD Clayton “Blue Sky Sundays”

February 27, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Clayton celebrates the land and music that raised him, and the joy in his growing family. No, not that JD. Singer-songwriter JD Clayton has returned for his sophomore album twinged with a little more blues sound […]
Columns

Vox Continental – a new feature from Rick Bayles launches today!

February 27, 2025 Rick Bayles 0
Following on from our recent ‘Continental Shift’ series of features on americana music in continental Europe, we’re launching a new monthly column, Vox Continental. This column is designed to be a round-up of americana activity in […]
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Album Reviews

Edith Frost “In Space”

February 27, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
Back after a break of almost 20 years, Edith Frost returns with an atmospheric album of great songs. Noted tunesmith Edith Frost describes her music as “pensive countrified psychedelia“. Throughout her career, Frost has never been […]
Tracks

Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill “Come to Me” – coming together again, maybe 

February 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill’s new single, ‘Come to Me”  is a track off the married couple’s debut album, ‘Long After The Fire’, produced and engineered by Paul Allen and coming out via Label 51 Recordings. […]

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Sarah McQuaid takes to the road again in the UK in November

September 23, 2026 0
With her new recording and rehearsal studio nearing completion, Sarah McQuaid is once again heading out on the road, this time for a 9-week, 36-show coast-to-coast US tour beginning on the 11th of September, and a […]
artwork for Levi Foster's album Appalachian Funk Tree
Album Reviews

Levi Foster “Appalachian Funk Tree”

September 23, 2026 0
Levi Foster takes his yarn-spinning country tunes to the heart of Hollywood. After two EPs and the success of his critically-acclaimed first album, We Made Fire, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter who draws his inspiration from the likes […]
Tracks

Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand

September 23, 2026 0
Molly & Me is the latest single from the upcoming album from Margo Cilker, Little White Cross, which is out on October 9th via Fossil Records. Molly & Me starts out as a story about a teenage friendship […]

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  • Levi Foster “Appalachian Funk Tree”
  • Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand
  • Video: Bird “The Lady Who Reads The Cards” – a strange but beautiful spiritual encounter
  • Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”
  • Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November
  • More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott
  • Dave Sutherland “Just Like a Black and White Film”
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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Live Review: Arisaig Americana Music Festival, 31st May – 2nd June 2024

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Arisaig is a little village in the West of Scotland and their annual festival is a labour of love for the organisers and the local volunteers who all work hard to make this excellent little weekend […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer “When I Go” – Live At The St. John Pub, Portland, Oregon, 2001

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Before I explain my choice for this week’s Classic Clips’ feature let me first convey how this particular artist first came to my attention. While discussing the pros and cons of all things to do with […]
Videos

Video: Garry Tallent “Stay Away”

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A sharp rockabilly-styled song from the E Street Band man’s new album Break Time, out now.  He’ll also be playing in the UK next month with Kevin Montgomery.

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