May 2026 – Page 5 – Americana UK

Video: CR & The White Lights “Tinted Windows” – calm in the midst of a difficult time

May 28, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0

Be absorbed by the outstanding new single from New Jersey band CR & The White Lights. Tinted Windows introduces the band with blistering guitar work; the blend of bright Telecaster and powerful, vibrating notes of the […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Joni Mitchell

May 27, 2026 Jonathan Hincks 4

David Jarman’s recent visit to Woodstock in his AUK ‘For The Sake Of The Song’ feature may well have whetted the appetite of Joni Mitchell fans (here), of which I have been one for over half […]

artwork for Diana Darby album "Otterson"

Diana Darby “Otterson”

May 27, 2026 Chas Lacey 0

Songs of love and hate with a layer of ghostly eeriness. When the Eagles reunited to stage their Hell Freezes Over TV special, Don Henley famously said that “For the record, we never broke up, we […]

Video: The Attention Seekers “It Doesn’t Happen Every Day”

May 27, 2026 Mark Whitfield 0

The Attention Seekers from Newcastle don’t have a band name which does them justice given we are very happy to seek their attention! And they have a new song out now about which songwriter Alan Fish […]

Live Review: Great Lake Swimmers + Portland, 100 Club, London – 10th May 2026

May 27, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

A warm enough to not need a jacket evening, and a stroll down a surprisingly empty Oxford Street on a still early Sunday evening, which ended at the 100 Club entrance, which, again, surprisingly, was not […]

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Cover art for Tucker Zimmerman album "Dream Me A Dream"

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0

Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0

Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]

Month: May 2026

Video: CR & The White Lights “Tinted Windows” – calm in the midst of a difficult time

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Joni Mitchell

Diana Darby “Otterson”

Video: The Attention Seekers “It Doesn’t Happen Every Day”

Live Review: Great Lake Swimmers + Portland, 100 Club, London – 10th May 2026

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween

Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side