2026 – Page 251 – Americana UK

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 Dean Nardi 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Sean Taylor “First Light”

February 10, 2026 Michael Macy 0

A call to action with gentle reminders to remember love. “First Light”, Sean Taylor’s latest release, is like a collection of broadside ballads; song sheets with the ink still wet, hawked on street corners from the 16th […]

More People Really Should Know About: Pat Reedy

February 10, 2026 Andrew Raw 3

Put simply, it is the quality of Pat Reedy’s blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges, honky-tonk songwriting that makes him stand out so strongly from the crowd. His songs have great, memorable melodies that you want to hear again, even […]

Mirah “The Ballad of The Bride of Frankenstein” are we monsters

February 10, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s probably just one of those strange coincidences that this song has appeared in advance of the movie The Bride, as it represents Mirah’s first release in seven years. Starting as a folky acoustic ballad, the […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

September 14, 2026 1

This surreal cut from Bob Dylan’s 1978 album Street-Legal can be interpreted in many ways. Dylan himself has offered many different explanations of the song’s intricate lyrics, often contradicting his earlier descriptions. Whatever the story, or […]

Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

September 14, 2026 0

Standing Stones – enigmatic traces of the long past dwellers in these lands. People with their own culture, their own way of looking at the world – and even though they are long gone these remaining […]

Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

September 14, 2026 0

An album which leads from a concept rooted in despair which ends as hopeful observations of life and its shifts. Margo Cilker says of her third album; “You could definitely call it a concept record.” Recorded […]

Year: 2026