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Features

The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Aisha Khan

October 7, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
The second entrant in Twang Factor 4 is Aisha Khan, who is part of a group called Grace under Fire, a rootin’ tootin’ cowpunk trio from London. Aisha Khan, Matt Radford, and Mal Barclay, veterans of […]
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Features

More People Should Really Know About: Leah Blevins

October 7, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1
Leah Blevins is an act that crossed this writer’s path as a support act. And as happens from time to time, the response is a big “wow”. Her output may be relatively thin to date: one […]
Album Reviews

Will Rainier “Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em”

October 7, 2025 Peter Churchill 0
Hanging around in bars pays off for Seattle-based wordsmith. Without wishing to venture into the dodgy world of American stereotyping, particularly at this moment in its history, it may be fair to say that hanging around […]
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Mavis Staples “Sad And Beautiful” – the place where we live

October 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
You’ll recall that there’s a new album on its way from the incomparable Mavis Staples, and its title track, ‘Sad And Beautiful‘, is also the latest single to be released from it. It’s a meditative and […]
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Video Premiere: Chris Stamey “Anything Is Possible” ft. The Lemon Twigs

October 7, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the tuneful new single from North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey. ‘Anything Is Possible’ chugs along on a pulsing beat, underpinned by Mitch Easter’s powerful drums. Stamey delivers a clear, pure vocal performance, enhanced by […]

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Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

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Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

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Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

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There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

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Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

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Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

July 31, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from case/lang/veirs who have this week shared their cover of Patti Smith’s track People Have The Power which […]
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Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

July 31, 2026 0
London-based singer-songwriter Jack Browning will release his sophomore album, Painted Skies, on September 16th via Too Fine Records. The twelve-song collection follows Browning’s signing to the Nashville label earlier this year and arrives after two years […]
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Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

July 31, 2026 0
The next Americana Story comes from one of our own. Rick Bayles escaped the UK to live in the Dordogne region of France, and from there he reports back through his monthly Vox Continental column, sharing […]

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  • Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September
  • Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”
  • There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday
  • Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981
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  • Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 3rd-5th July 2026
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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 […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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If this review were being written by one DJ Trump then you’d hear how this was an all time record crowd for The Horn, which is a pretty unsubtle way of trying to soften the blow […]
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Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Little Feat “Sailin’ Shoes”

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‘Sailin’ Shoes’ was Little Feat’s second album with the original lineup of Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Richie Hayward, and Bill Payne. The quartet’s music was among many wonderful freewheeling experiments to come out of Frank Zappa’s […]
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The Andrew Collins Trio “And It Was Good” (Independent, 2017)

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This is a difficult album to review simply because I’ve never heard anything quite like it before. For a start, it’s totally instrumental; unusual in the Americana genre, though the music does have its roots quite […]

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