David Jarman

Hadestown now playing in the West End

February 13, 2024 David Jarman 0

It is a truism that great musicals need great songs, and with 8 Tony Awards including ‘Best Musical’ and a Grammy Award for ‘Best Musical Theatre Album’ Hadestown has returned to the London stage with the finest […]

Artwork for Smith and Tegio album '"Can't Stay Here"

Smith and Tegio “Can’t Stay Here”

January 23, 2024 David Jarman 0

Blues flavours to fine acoustic country/Americana from West Coast US duo Smith and Tegio. Duo Smith and Tegio are long-established songwriting and performing partners Austin Smith and Mark Tegio, based respectively in Santa Cruz CA, and […]

Hank Wangford and Noel Dashwood “Promises, Promises”

December 20, 2023 David Jarman 1

Atmospheric Hawaiian-influenced roots country features characteristic wry humour from Wangford and fine dobro from duo partner Dashwood. Hank Wangford–the performing alter-ego of Dr. Sam Hutt–will need no introduction to many readers, as a home-grown pioneer in […]

Stars of Cascadia “Stars of Cascadia”

December 19, 2023 David Jarman 0

Old school country rock from Portland Oregon band. Stars of Cascadia announce themselves as “an alt-country band from Portland, Oregon playing vintage country rock with a psychedelic flair evoking Neil Young, Gram Parsons…” and this pretty […]

More People Really Should Know About: Judy Blank

December 12, 2023 David Jarman 0

I first had the pleasure of catching Judy Blank at the Americana Music Association festival in Hackney in January 2020. Hailing from Utrecht, a Dutch female artist was a first in the americana genre, so far […]

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Nick Meltio

July 10, 2025 0

The burly, bearded man you see hugging his Gibson J45 guitar in the video is Niklas (Nick) Meltio, who comes from Finland but is smitten by americana music. His debut album, “Desert Bound,” reflects the allure […]

Album Reviews

Bruce Cockburn “Greatest Hits (1970-2020)”

November 26, 2021 0

An excellent primer to the wonderful world of Cockburn – an essential release. When a “career spanning retrospective” is announced closer inspection often finds it to be that artist’s time with a particular record company so […]

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Isobel Campbell announces her new album “Bow To Love”

February 29, 2024 0

Four years after releasing her last album, ‘There Is No Other’, straight into the pandemic, Isobel Campbell returns with her latest, ‘Bow To Love’, which is out via our friends over at Cooking Vinyl on 17th […]

Articles by David Jarman

Hadestown now playing in the West End

Smith and Tegio “Can’t Stay Here”

Hank Wangford and Noel Dashwood “Promises, Promises”

Stars of Cascadia “Stars of Cascadia”

More People Really Should Know About: Judy Blank

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”