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Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0
The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

July 2, 2026 David Jarman 0
Amy Speace is a long-standing favourite of Americana UK, her most recent album, The Blue Rock Session, appearing late in 2025, a stripped-back collection on acoustic guitar and piano, recorded at a writing retreat in Wimberley, […]
Album Reviews

Juana Everett “Past Lives in California”

July 2, 2026 Helen Jones 0
The Madrid-born singer-songwriter sounds every bit like a Nashville native on a highly listenable second album. 10 years ago, Madrid native Juana Everett decided it was time for her to make a big change, and so, […]
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Billy Strings to release latest album “So Much For Goodbyes” on 28th August

July 2, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Billy Strings will release his new album, So Much For Goodbyes, on 28th August 2026 via Reprise Records. Produced by Strings and T Bone Burnett, the new 16-track project finds […]
Tracks

Beth Lee “Life Keeps Moving On” – we’re on the move again

July 2, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Beth Lee is a bluegrass and folk musician who was raised on the sounds of the Washington, D.C. bluegrass scene, The Country Gentlemen, the Seldom Scene, and the region’s vibrant festival culture. She became a songwriter, […]

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Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil “I Won’t Let Go” – a jingle-jangle morning

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Video Premiere: Bronwyn “Johnny Ray” (Live) – music to rattle your bones

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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

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Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

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Tracks

Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil “I Won’t Let Go” – a jingle-jangle morning

July 22, 2026 0
And in case you’re wondering, that’s Steve on the right and Ed on the left and they bring us the second single from their new album Temporary Sun, which was released last week.  I Won’t Let […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Bronwyn “Johnny Ray” (Live) – music to rattle your bones

July 22, 2026 0
Here’s the energetic, uptempo new single from the talented fiddle-player Bronwyn. New song Johnny Ray is arranged and performed with dramatic flair. Is there a finer collection of instruments than these? Alongside Bronwyn’s fiddle and vocals, Frank Evans […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

  • Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil “I Won’t Let Go” – a jingle-jangle morning
  • Video Premiere: Bronwyn “Johnny Ray” (Live) – music to rattle your bones
  • Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter
  • Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”
  • More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow
  • Live Review: Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons + Red Hash + Ella Spencer, Water Rats, London – 8th July 2026
  • Martin Carthy “Along the Road Forever – Live at the BBC”
  • Boulder Fields roll into autumn with a brand new album
  • Lambchop “The New World Wave” – a family saga
  • Video: Ian Prowse “The Cleaner” feat. Elvis Costello – on the frontline in the class war
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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]

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Video Premiere: Kris Angelis “My Quiet”

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Here is the gently beautiful ‘My Quiet’ from Kris Angelis.  “You’re my quiet in a crowded room,” begins Angelis and such arresting images and metaphors are found throughout this lyrically impressive new single.  Her hushed, almost […]
Tracks

Jim Basnight “Still Learning” – lessons for life

August 29, 2025 0
It sometimes seems like not too many people are aware that Americana UK covers, amongst other things, that musical form of jangly guitar rock that we sometimes call Power Pop.  Fortunately, there are a few who […]
Album Reviews

Paul J Bolger “Paul J Bolger” (Wolfe Island, 2020)

May 29, 2020 0
Paul J Bolger says of his new self titled album: “After a lifetime spent shifting between music, visual art and film I am doing what I want to do at an age some might say I […]

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