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Video: Valerie June “Endless Tree”

May 6, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
In her latest single, Valerie June asks, “Are you ready to see // A world where we could all be free // As branches of an endless tree?” and this question is at the heart of […]
Tracks

Something for the long weekend: Tyler Ellis “100 Proof”

May 2, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Yes.  But honestly, the Editor will return.  Be patient.  In the meantime, we’ve managed to drag ourselves to the end of another week and joy of joys, it’s a long weekend.  Having touched on May Day […]
artwork for Kate Rusby album "When They All Looked Up"
Album Reviews

Kate Rusby “When They All Looked Up”

May 2, 2025 Chas Lacey 0
Traditional and original folk music, beautifully delivered with a contemporary feel. Seasonal Christmas offerings apart, this is Kate Rusby’s first album since her collection of covers on ‘Hand Me Down’ in 2020. As such it will […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: Neko Case “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You”

May 2, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Neko Case’s memoir provides a starkly honest picture of her early life as well as the route by which she came to be the artist and the person she is today.  The book takes us from […]
Columns

Sounds from Beyond the Shed 183 “The Big 100”

May 2, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
I don’t often promote myself, but this week marks a bit of a milestone (some may say millstone) as the radio show “Sounds from Beyond the Shed” is celebrating its 100th episode, and to be honest, […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 248 “Too much good stuff…”

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Video Premiere: Brock Davis “All of You”

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Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 248 “Too much good stuff…”

August 10, 2026 0
Can you ever have too much of a good thing? It’s a question I asked myself whilst sifting through potential news stories for the site. There has been an avalanche of great stuff being announced in […]
Tracks

Jim James “Wowed Out” – wow, wow, wow – unbelievable

August 10, 2026 2
We’re giving ourselves an easy start to the week – after the heatwave hell of the weekend we think we deserve it – by starting with a song by an artist we can confidently say “needs […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Brock Davis “All of You”

August 10, 2026 0
Here’s the latest single from Santa Cruz, California-based singer-songwriter Brock Davis. As soon as All of You opens with quivering slide guitar, followed by tinkling keys, it’s clear that this is a song with melody at […]

  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 248 “Too much good stuff…”
  • Jim James “Wowed Out” – wow, wow, wow – unbelievable
  • Video Premiere: Brock Davis “All of You”
  • Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”
  • Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free
  • Margo Price “Days of Unrest”
  • Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012
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Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0
At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]

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Various Artists “Back to Paradise: A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music” (Horton Records, 2020)

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The migration of people of Oklahoma, ‘the Okies’, to California from the mid-’30s to the mid-’50s, stirred by the Dust Bowl era, is a huge part of American history captured in the award-winning Steinbeck novel ‘The […]
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Katherine Priddy “The Eternal Rocks Beneath”

July 6, 2021 0
A much-anticipated debut album that lives well up to expectations. There is just something about traditionally played and sung folk music that more complex albums can’t begin to match. When the voice is as good as […]
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Slow Parade “Maybe You’ll Come Around, Again”

April 12, 2024 0
Laid-back americana with a nice groove and engaging words. Slow Parade is songwriter Matthew Pendrick aided and abetted by friends from his home city of Atlanta, Georgia, who met during his decade as part of the […]

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