April 2025 – Page 29 – Americana UK

Classic Clips: Jackie DeShannon “When You Walk In The Room” – Later with Jools Holland, 2012

April 4, 2025 Chas Lacey 2

Back in the time before AI, when songwriters sat at typewriters in New York’s Brill Building or Holland-Dozier-Holland churned out hits for Motown, a small-town country girl from Kentucky called Sharon Lee Myers was attempting to […]

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John Cowan and Andrea Zonn “The HercuLeons“

April 4, 2025 Jonathan Smith 0

Sumptuous collection from long-time musical friends. With many decades of musical endeavour behind them playing with the likes of The Doobie Brothers (Cowan) and James Taylor, Lyle Lovett and Vince Gill (Zonn), ‘John Cowan and Andrea […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 179 “Travel”

April 4, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Despite my leaving education, life still seems to revolve around term-time rhythms. Owning a small camper van means that Mrs. H and I can jump anytime we want and just eff off over the horizon… or […]

Live Review: Ian Prowse, The Waterfront, Norwich, 28th March 2025

April 4, 2025 Daisy Innes 2

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the classic Amsterdam hit, ‘Does This Train Stop At Merseyside?’, Ian Prowse is riding the rails across the UK. The fifth stop of an extensive tour saw him stopping […]

Black Deer Radio – bringing Americana to the people

April 4, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 3

With so many noises competing for attention these days it’s difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff but a radio station that has only been around less than a year may well have found a […]

Kyshona “We The People” – only people have the power

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Kyshona brings u a new version of her song We The People which was originally released in 2020 on the album Listen. Here it is reimagined as a powerful acoustic performance, starkly highlighting the message of […]

Video Premiere: RJ Chesney “Suzanne”

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The new single from RJ Chesney, a fine singer-songwriter based in Mississippi, is heartfelt, open and honest. Suzanne was written by Chesney’s friend and fellow-songwriter Kyle McNeill and Chesney first heard McNeill play it at just […]

Top 10 UK Americana Albums of all time: John Lee

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So today we start a new Top 10 feature, to find the best UK Americana album as voted by our writers – and we are up for the challenge and the weeks of bickering which lie […]

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