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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?
Live Reviews

The Whybirds, The Portland Arms, Cambridge, 7th July 2017

July 14, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Well – after three studio albums, a live album, EPs, singles and many gigs – that’s it for the Whybirds. Having an announced an indefinite hiatus the Americana band are currently undertaking their last few live […]
Tracks

Van Morrison “Bring it on home to me” – Listen

July 14, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Not that this going to become a habit – although it very possibly could – but following on from yesterday’s Real News about Van Morrison’s upcoming album Roll with the punches (due out this September) it is […]
Album Reviews

The Byrds “The Broadcast Archive” (All Access / Sonic Boom, 2017)

July 13, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
The Broadcast Archive is a three CD set of radio broadcasts – semi-professional bootlegs in other words. Two of the albums have actually been out (on this label!) since 2015, one is new for 2017 and […]
News

Van Morrison has new album coming up – and UK tour

July 13, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
There is a hierarchy in the list of poet singer-songwriters  – and few indeed are the singers that can stand at the very peak alongside the recently elected Nobel literature laureate.  Van Morrison is one such. […]
Album Reviews

William Matheny “Strange Constellations” (Misra Records, 2017)

July 12, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s rare to hear a debut album as accomplished as Strange Constellations – but then William Matheny isn’t exactly a completely fresh face on the music scene as he’s had a number of years in the […]

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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

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

News
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Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”

Album Reviews
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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”

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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”
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  • Graeme Tait: Hi Tricia. Yes, it is a gorgeous track, and by far the most uptempo and muscular arrangement on the album.…

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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 […]

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Album Reviews

Erin Costelo “Down Below the Status Quo” (Seayou Records, 2016)

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Despite the protestations of countless wanabees across the world who all want their MTV, (or whatever the kids say now) being a musician is tough work. It’s difficult to tell if it’s harder in one genre […]
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The Handsome Family celebrate 23 years of “Singing Bones” with deluxe reissue and tour

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The Handsome Family today announce a UK and Irish tour to mark the re-release of their classic album “Singing Bones”.  The album was the 6th album from the husband-and-wife outfit of Brett & Rennie Sparks and […]
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Simon Rowe “Everybody’s Thinking”

February 7, 2023 0
Mojave 3 alumni returns with shimmering, hazy debut. Gently starting with an instrumental called ‘Croxted Crows’, this album slowly unfolds as a sweetly pastoral, gentle, psychedelic delight. There are minor chords and delicate harmonies, phased effects […]

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