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 […]