Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • Fiction
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ July 16, 2026 ] Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for Interviews
  • [ July 16, 2026 ] Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November News
  • [ July 16, 2026 ] Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt” Album Reviews
  • [ July 16, 2026 ] There’s a new album on a new label on the way from Jess Williamson News
  • [ July 16, 2026 ] Americana Stories – Gary Marsden “Rialto and Rhiannon” Features
HomeAuthorsJonathan Aird

Articles by Jonathan Aird

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?
Tracks

Happy Abandon “Severed Seams” – Listen

August 15, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Is Happy Abandon the point where Mumford & Sons meet Mogwai ? Perhaps, but Severed Seams – the latest track to be released from Happy Abandon’s upcoming album Facepaint – is a stirring blend of banjo and […]
Album Reviews

Viper Central “The Spirit of God & Madness” (Independent, 2017)

August 9, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Viper Central have been known as a first-rate Bluegrass band since their debut album The Devil sure is hard to please appeared in 2008, but this latest release – Viper Central’s third album – sees them […]
Live Reviews

Rainbrother, Paper Dress Vintage, London, 31st July 2017

August 8, 2017 Jonathan Aird 1
Paper Dress Vintage is a relatively new venue in Hackney, downstairs is a vintage clothing shop cum bar, by day upstairs is more clothing and a yoga studio but by night it’s an intimate venue to […]
Tracks

Minor Poet “Judith Beheading Holofernes ” – Listen

August 8, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Minor Poet is Richmond (Virginia) based musician Andrew Carter who has recorded an album – And How! – which is a testament to the beauty of music found in the most unexpected places.   It’s his debut […]
News

Scott Vestal Wins Steve Martin Banjo Prize

August 3, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
As reported in the truthful and successful New York Times, the recipient of the 2017 Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass was announced last weekend as being Scott Vestal. Scott Vestal took to the music in the […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 645 646 647 … 675 »

our latest posts

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

Interviews
July 16, 2026 0

Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November

News
July 16, 2026 0

Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”

Album Reviews
July 16, 2026 0
Jess Williamson

There’s a new album on a new label on the way from Jess Williamson

News
July 16, 2026 0

Americana Stories – Gary Marsden “Rialto and Rhiannon”

Features
July 16, 2026 0
Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
News

Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November

July 16, 2026 0
If you’ve tried to buy tickets for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of this website which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House later this year on Saturday November […]
Album Reviews

Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”

July 16, 2026 0
Musings on the state of the world, now and in the past, the solution is in the hot dog. When an album announces itself as “a rollicking medieval-Americana manuscript” it’s clear that we shouldn’t take anything […]

  • Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for
  • Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November
  • Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”
  • There’s a new album on a new label on the way from Jess Williamson
  • Americana Stories – Gary Marsden “Rialto and Rhiannon”
  • Brand New Heartache “A New Alchemy”
  • The Suitcase Junket “One More Mile” – take that step
  • Video: John Carter Cash “Pineapple John” – finding yourself in the sea’s reflection
  • Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK
  • Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Max. My pleasure. I thoroughly enjoyed the album and wish you all the best going forward.
  • max subar: thanks for this thoughtful review Graeme, I'm so glad it resonates.
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Tricia. Yes, it is a gorgeous track, and by far the most uptempo and muscular arrangement on the album.…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

You may have missed…

Live Reviews

Live Review: Desire Reimagined, Dingwalls, London – 3rd June 2026

June 16, 2026 0
What a prospect on a night brooding with potential for rain, but also with the potential to hear one of Dylan’s most iconic albums played all the way through and in the right order. This celebration […]
Live Reviews

Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane, The Doublet, Glasgow, 12th February 2019

February 13, 2019 0
Here for some winter warmth away from their native sub zero Manitoba, Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane kicked off what local promoters, Sounds In The Suburbs are calling their Canadian season, with an effervescent show which […]
Videos

Video: Jake Swamp and The Pine “Drive, Drive, Drive”

December 13, 2022 0
‘Drive, Drive, Drive’ is the latest single from Jake Swamp and The Pine, led by guitarist, singer and songwriter Drew Zieff.  The accompanying video sees Zieff playing as the sun sets, while also taking us a […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool