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Margo Price returns with new album “Hard Headed Woman”

June 12, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Margo Price has announced the release of new album “Hard Headed Woman”,  described as “a hell-bent collection of country music that reconnects with her roots and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw”, […]
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Album Reviews

Willie Nile “The Great Yellow Light”

June 12, 2025 Graeme Tait 2
The bard of New York City returns with a cautionary message for the times, laced with hope and lashings of rock ‘n’ roll. Willie Nile and his music require little introduction to Americana music aficionados, with […]
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Live Review: Michael Weston King, Dan Raza & Michael J Sheehy, The Betsey Trotwood, London – 1st June 2025

June 12, 2025 Phil Weedon 0
The trio performs After All These Years, A Celebration of the Music of Mickey Newbury. I’ve spent more than 40 years having to explain my love of Mickey Newbury and his music to those who should […]
Album Reviews

Chloe Foy “Complete Fool”

June 12, 2025 FredArnold 0
After an acclaimed debut, UK’s Chloe Foy continues a hot streak with her sophomore album. Chloe Foy (originally from Gloucestershire) has been building a solid reputation over a number of years, with singles and EPs starting […]
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AMA announces nominations for 24th Annual Americana Honours and Awards

June 12, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The Americana Music Association (AMA) – the US one that is – has announced the nominations for their 24th Annual Americana Honours & Awards for 2025.  The awards will be presented at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on […]

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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

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Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”

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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

May 26, 2026 0
It has been a while, quite a while, since we last featured Great Willow (although we have heard more recently from James Combs, one half of the duo), so it’s really nice to have some new […]
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Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”

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Disappear down the rabbit hole with the latest single from The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, the musical project of New Jersey-based musician and performer Gary Van Miert. The video for The Mad Tea Party is a […]
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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

May 22, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year anniversary event featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and you know, others of our ilk, you can head […]

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  • Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”
  • Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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This collaboration between decade veterans Session Americana and Jefferson Hamer, perhaps best known this side of the pond for his “Child Ballads” album with Anais Mitchell, opens up with the little gem that is “One Skinner”, […]
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Track Premiere: Kimberly Morgan York “Fallen”

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‘Fallen‘ is country with a bit of rock thrown in, and showcases the gritty and powerful vocals of Kimberly Morgan York as she describes her tussles with the devil “and now I’m fallen, the Devils’ playing […]
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Being on the next link of the Americana Chain can feel a bit like being George Bernard Shaw in one of the funnier Python sketches (there were three in total if I remember correctly). Observe as […]

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