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About Jonathan Aird
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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Madison Olds “When I Lost You” – painful memories from lockdown

November 5, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
It would be easy to be misled by ‘When I Lost You‘ which features a very modern folk-pop sound which could easily have you thinking of Lumineers or Mt. Joy.  By which we mean it’s bouncy, […]
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Charlie Castell “My America” – Keeping America Progressive

November 4, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
We don’t really expect to have any great influence on the upcoming mass voting opportunity, but obviously we have something of an interest in what American musicians have to say about the event.  There’s a lot […]
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Grateful Dead – the (free) music never stops

November 4, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
It is, indeed, that time of year again, indeed it is, indeed it is.  November.  There are 30 days In November, and once again Grateful Dead fans are rejoicing because once again the Grateful Dead website […]
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Melanie Maclaren “Laika” – the space dog

November 4, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Laika‘, you’ll recall, was the first dog in space – sent beyond the boundaries of the atmosphere by the USSR.  It was a “proof of principal” experiment – could a  creature be sent into space and […]
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Crys Matthews “Cancel Culture” – right on, just right on

November 1, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1
Now there is a danger, we are warned, from listening to things that we agree with whole heartedly.  We’ll be narrowing our viewpoints, we won’t be seeing the other side, we’ll miss the bigger picture.  You […]

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Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October

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Live Review: Jenny Don’t And The Spurs, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge – 12th August 2026

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Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October

August 19, 2026 0
Hadestown, the musical co-written by Anais Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin, has earned many accolades, including eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical, and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. But if you […]
Album Reviews

Sequoia “So Long”

August 19, 2026 0
Honest, world-weary songs of love, grief, and longing. This is Sequoia’s (aka Sequoia Feinson) second album. After a peripatetic youth, he eventually settled in rural Virginia, where he spent many of his formative years. A subsequent […]
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Live Review: Jenny Don’t And The Spurs, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge – 12th August 2026

August 19, 2026 0
It was a balmy night for the eclipse, and the roads were packed with sun-watchers as I drove over the hills to Hebden Bridge in the beautiful Calder Valley, through the premature dusk. Stepping inside the […]

  • Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October
  • Sequoia “So Long”
  • Live Review: Jenny Don’t And The Spurs, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge – 12th August 2026
  • Kate MacLeod’s Mind the Gap “Home-Brewed”
  • Track Premiere: Gyasi “Poor Boy”
  • Video: Rowena Wise “Unlearning Of Love” – Embrace me, don’t break away
  • Anniversary Cheers: JD Crowe & The New South and Boone Creek celebrate 50 years
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  • Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth collaborative project to be released in October
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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
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Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
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Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock

August 11, 2026 0
Remarkably, it is twenty years since Frank Turner released his first solo EP: Campfire Punkrock. The very title was both a statement of intent and a conscious identifier, defining his sound and the purpose of his […]

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Blue Rose Code: St. Andrews In The Square Glasgow Americana Festival – 5th October 2016

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“I’m going to start with my most miserable song.” Thus opened the 10th Glasgow Americana Festival, the words spoken by Ross Wilson of Blue Rose Code as he opened his set with a solo rendition of […]
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Larkin Poe “In The Air Tonight” – Listen

November 4, 2020 0
Americana UK mentioning Dire Straits, and now a Phil Collins song?  What is going on?  Are we having a retro-Eighties flashback?  Well….Larkin Poe have recorded a lockdown album of covers which includes the Genesis drummer’s solo […]
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Alicia Toner “Forget About It” – Listen

February 4, 2020 0
One of the amazing things about AmericanaFest – yeah, sorry, we’re still going on about that, we should probably get out more – is discovering bands and singers that you’ve not really come across before.  One […]

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