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Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Lutterworth – 22nd-24th August 2025

September 25, 2025 David Jarman 0
My preview of a couple of weeks back noted that the Long Road Festival is an annual fixture in my diary, and this year‘s line-up promised much. The festival now boasts six stages – adding the […]
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Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival, 1st-5th October

September 25, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The 19th annual Glasgow Americana festival will take place at various places around the city between 1st and 5th October 2025  with a mixture of some familiar and new faces. There will be over 40 musicians […]
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Elles Bailey announces new album and early 2026 tour dates

September 25, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
After the release of her highest charting album to date last year Elles Bailey is back with a brand new album “Can’t Take My Story Away” set to be released on 16th January 2026 via Cooking […]
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Tim Grimm “Bones of Trees”

September 25, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Fine-grained songs from a craftsman’s hands. “Folk songs transmit history and stories, serve as a means of personal and collective expression and entertainment. Through their narrative, they connect generations.”  AI proved useful when asked for the […]
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Vox Continental: September 2025

September 25, 2025 Rick Bayles 0
Lots of Scandinavian activity again this month, along with new releases and tour news from Germany. One of the leading ladies of Nordicana, Malin Pettersen, has just released her latest album, “Wildflower”, on Die With Your […]

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

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Enjoyable southern rock release with lyrics that focus on the positive. Formed in Brooklyn at the end of 2006, but now based in North Carolina, Yarn tend to lean towards the southern rock element of americana. […]
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Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

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The Bread and Roses is located in the heart of Clapham, London. Owned by The Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council, it consists of the ground-floor pub and a theatre space above. It’s a community-oriented establishment […]

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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

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“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

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Video Premiere: Track Dogs “Water the Lawn”

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Get moving to the latest single from Track Dogs.  ‘Water the Lawn’, is a delightfully upbeat, uptempo song that makes you want to dance and brings a great deal of joy to the appreciative audience in […]
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Tremends “Now We Know” – Listen

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‘Now We Know’ is a ripe slice of fuzzed up guitar driven psych-rock.  Juan Rozas demonstrates a fine restraint on the guitar solos here – precise, but not flash, backed up by the booming drum sound […]
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Lost Albums: Gordon Payne “Gordon Payne”

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Funky honest country soul produced by J J Cale and mixed by Waylon Jennings. Everyone at Americana UK is always thinking of new ideas to present music to our readers, and the latest is to periodically […]

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