Jonathan Aird

Andy Hedges “Eight Bucks & Change” – counting up a life’s achievements

March 20, 2026 Jonathan Aird 1

Andy Hedges’ latest album The Westerner is a collection of songs that straddle strands of the cowboy life and experience – whether that be on songs that are old enough now to be called traditional, and […]

Live Review: Charm Of Finches, Stables 2, Wavendon – 28th February 2026

March 19, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

The regular agenda in the side-room music space Stables 2 is that the named act will appear alone, and do two sets of around 45 minutes each. The arrangement of the room is a measure of […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – March 2026

March 19, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Here’s another half a dozen or so new folk tracks for your delectation and delight. Quite a varied crop, with a couple looking to future directions for folk, a couple of Irish-inspired productions and a couple […]

NOCONA “How Do You Feel?” – pretty good, mostly, slight ache just there, but mustn’t grumble

March 18, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Are you, good readers of Americana UK, ready for some music that isn’t Americana? What? What? No, no, calm down, it’s not so bad. NOCONA, the band from Los Angeles, have spent 12 years denying that […]

Chris Williams And Kid Reverie “Haunt Me” – hanging around, spectrally

March 17, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Chris Williams and Steve Varney (also known as Kid Reverie) made their musical connection in 2020 over that most common of shared loves – the love of the banjo. It started out as informal lessons, and […]

Something for the weekend: Passenger “It Was Gonna Be You”

August 14, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Passenger out today called It Was Gonna Be You which doesn’t really have a whole lot of […]

artwork for Aaron Lee Tasjan album Get Over It, Underdog

Aaron Lee Tasjan “Get Over It, Underdog”

August 14, 2026 0

A broad-spectrum listening experience packed with vibrant, timeless songs. Aaron Lee Tasjan sought counsel from his longstanding friend and mentor, the late great Todd Snider, to help loosen the shackles of imposter syndrome that were tying […]

Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

August 14, 2026 0

George Takei’s 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, is rather more than a standard Hollywood memoir. Whilst it does cover his years on the USS Enterprise in detail, the more interesting aspects lie in the exploration of […]

Articles by Jonathan Aird

Andy Hedges “Eight Bucks & Change” – counting up a life’s achievements

Live Review: Charm Of Finches, Stables 2, Wavendon – 28th February 2026

Folk Tracks Roundup – March 2026

NOCONA “How Do You Feel?” – pretty good, mostly, slight ache just there, but mustn’t grumble

Chris Williams And Kid Reverie “Haunt Me” – hanging around, spectrally

Something for the weekend: Passenger “It Was Gonna Be You”

Aaron Lee Tasjan “Get Over It, Underdog”

Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

Classic Clips: Julian Taylor “Friend Of The Devil” – LIVE at SiriusXM, 2019

The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future