2025 – Page 344 – Americana UK

Live Review: Transatlantic Sessions 2025, Royal Festival Hall, London, Sunday 9th February 2025

February 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1

Over the last thirty years, growing out of BBC sessions and star spots at Celtic Connections, Transatlantic Sessions have become – to borrow from Chesterton – The Flying Folk Club. And not just as a travelling […]

JD Clayton “Blue Sky Sundays”

February 27, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

Clayton celebrates the land and music that raised him, and the joy in his growing family. No, not that JD. Singer-songwriter JD Clayton has returned for his sophomore album twinged with a little more blues sound […]

Vox Continental – a new feature from Rick Bayles launches today!

February 27, 2025 Rick Bayles 0

Following on from our recent ‘Continental Shift’ series of features on americana music in continental Europe, we’re launching a new monthly column, Vox Continental. This column is designed to be a round-up of americana activity in […]

Artwork for Edith Frost album "In Space"

Edith Frost “In Space”

February 27, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

Back after a break of almost 20 years, Edith Frost returns with an atmospheric album of great songs. Noted tunesmith Edith Frost describes her music as “pensive countrified psychedelia“. Throughout her career, Frost has never been […]

Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill “Come to Me” – coming together again, maybe

February 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill’s new single, ‘Come to Me” is a track off the married couple’s debut album, ‘Long After The Fire’, produced and engineered by Paul Allen and coming out via Label 51 Recordings. […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

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