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Month: December 2025

News

The Delines Set Up new album for March

December 3, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
The Delines have announced their new album “The Set Up,” due out 6th March via Decor Records, available to preorder here. The acclaimed Portland, Oregon band are also pleased to announce March and October UK tour […]
Tracks

Wes Corbett “Hartford’s Bend On The Cumberland” – drift to the sea

December 3, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
Hey, Wednesday afternoon has sure rolled around fast this week, and there’s so much to do, isn’t there?  Never a moment’s peace, never any time to kick-back and take in some songs without words as you […]
Album Reviews

Marlene Oak “Welcome To Oak Land”

December 3, 2025 Helen Jones 0
A difficult and emotional subject is expressed with the kind of beauty and hopefulness that only someone who has lived it can convey. It’s fair to say the past decade has brought some challenges for Swedish […]
Features

The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Maggie May Treanor

December 3, 2025 Dean Nardi 7
The next entrant in Twang Factor 4 is Maggie May Treanor, a singer-songwriter with roots in the rolling hills of Yorkshire, Ireland and Spain. This emerging artist brings an authentic approach to UK Americana. Raised on […]
News

Inaugural Folk Album Of The Year nominees announced

December 3, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The Folk Album of the Year Award has revealed its first-ever shortlist: nine outstanding albums released in Britain and Ireland in 2025. The artists behind each project range in age, geography, background and style — a […]

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Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

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Genre changing Buena Vista Social Club album 30th Anniversary Edition out now

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Paper Verses “Windstill”

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September 21, 2026 0
Features

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 1
If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]
Album Reviews

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0
A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]
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Features

For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

September 21, 2026 0
“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an old […]

  • Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music
  • Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”
  • Genre changing Buena Vista Social Club album 30th Anniversary Edition out now
  • Paper Verses “Windstill”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 245 “Stop….thief…”
  • Brown Wimpenny “Shady Grove” – chugs like a fast train
  • Video: Ethan Setiawan & Fine Ground “Ships at Sea” – wonderfully-warm and woozy
  • Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”
  • Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”
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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Video: Mandolin Orange “Wildfire”

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A nice gentle sound from this fine outfit who are on tour in the UK from the end of the month.
Album Reviews

Amanda Shires “Take It Like A Man”

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A bold new direction for this acclaimed singer and fiddler might raise some eyebrows. If  her 2018 release, To The Sunset’, found Amanda Shire moving away from the down-home roots of her previous albums, then ‘Take […]
Videos

Video: Stephen Wilson Jr. “Cuckoo”

March 20, 2025 0
Check out “Cuckoo”, the new single from Indiana-born, Nashville-based Stephen Wilson Jr.  It’s a high-energy song, driven by an urgent rhythm and Wilson Jr.’s relentless flow of words as he rails against all that life throws […]

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