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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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Anna Tivel “White Goose” – lost, lost, never to return

July 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘White Goose‘ is a meditation on things that are gone and is shot through with regret.  Mistakes and regrets and not only for the tangible things “the ghost of everything we loved and everything we didn’t […]

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Freightliner “Up All Night” – we can certainly relate

July 24, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s certainly something in the lyrics of the new single from Canadian band Freightliner that rings painfully true here at Americana UK Towers: “I’m up all night playing these songs/…/ ’til the dawn then I’m back […]

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Track Premiere: Stephen Jacques “Fragrant Flowers”

July 23, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Fragrant Flowers‘ is the opening cut of Stephen Jacques’ latest album “Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers”, which is a concept album about covering the 19th-century Western migration, frontier wagon train plight, gunfights, saloons, Native American reality, miscreants, […]

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Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly “Bad Girls” – never sad girls

July 22, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Today’s song finds two titans of Outlaw country turning Wham on their heads and instead of boasting about their own bad boy status find that they are hankering after some of the girls (we’re thinking they […]

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Folk Tracks Roundup – July 2025

July 21, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s a theme to this month’s roundup, which will become apparent as it progresses – as usual, it’s unplanned, it just fell out that way. And, as is usual with these track roundups, there’s a fair […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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

February 10, 2026 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 […]

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Not, we should point out, the Badfinger song made famous by Harry Nilsson, but sitting somewhat in that same territory of relationship loss.  Here, though, over a gentle folky setting the mellifluous Chloe Foy is singing […]

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Sam Williams “Glasshouse Children”

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Heartache and soul searching mix with country-pop. Inevitably, when you can claim your grandfather is regarded as a significant contributor to American songs of the 20th Century, then expectations are going to be high for your […]

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From her new album Lightshadow, out on October 26th, this is the new single from Norwegian singer-songwriter Anne Marie Almedal and it’s rather lovely.  Great video too.

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