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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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Abigail Lapell “Wait Up” – wasn’t that good to ya

March 11, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Today’s song comes from Abigail Lapell’s album ‘More Songs About Love‘, an extended companion to her acclaimed 2025 JUNO Award-nominated album ‘Anniversary. ‘  On this track from the album we find the Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist duetting […]
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Taylor James Donskey “Gimme Some Time” – have we run out ?

March 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
This is a strange one, as Minneapolis singer songwriter Taylor James Donskey wrote this song a a tribute to something that happened getting on for half a decade ago.  What were you doing in 2020?  He […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Jason Isbell, The Barbican, London – 10th February 2025

March 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2
Jason Isbell is, it goes without saying, one of the shining lights of Americana – if someone wants to know what Americana is then you point at the totality of his musical output and just say […]
Tracks

Brown Horse “Dog Rose” – looking back with mixed feelings

March 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Norfolk’s (and that’s Norfolk UK folks!) happening Brown Horse will release their second album ‘All The Right Weaknesses” which acts as a second volume of their sprawling fuzzy Americana from the cosmic and rocking end of […]
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Suzanne Vega breaks decade of silence

March 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, not actually silent for a decade, but rather it has been that long, and more, since the last album of new material and that overlong wait for a new album is over.  Well, not actually […]

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Anniversary Cheers: JD Crowe & The New South and Boone Creek celebrate 50 years

August 18, 2026 0
Craft Recordings re-release two remastered ground-breaking bluegrass albums, one long out of print, and both on CD for the first time In the mid-1970s, bluegrass music was evolving from the traditional ensemble acoustic playing of artists […]
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Album Reviews

Dan Pye “Room 7, on the 7th”

August 18, 2026 0
An impressive modern folk debut where creativity shines through. London-based Dan Pye is a creative individual. Alongside Room 7, on the 7th, his debut album, he has produced films, zines, handmade copper etchings, a diptych and […]
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Features

More People Really Should Know About: Eric Hagen

August 18, 2026 2
In his excellent review of the album Revival, published in these hallowed pages upon its release in 2023, my esteemed colleague Michael Macy compared the songs of Eric Hagen to those of the great American realist […]

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  • Americana Stories – Terena Elizabeth Bell “As We Go Along”
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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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Jerry Lehane “Runaway With You” – Listen

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Nearly thirty years after they were recorded Jerry Lehana, of Boston’s The Dogmatics, is releasing an EP of five songs recorded just after the band came to a sudden halt with the death of bassist Paul […]
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Mountain Goats “The Slow Parts On Death Metal Albums” – Listen

May 12, 2021 0
Taken from the new album ‘Dark in Here‘, out on June 25th, ‘The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums‘ is an autobiographical tale.  Mountain Goats’ bass player Peter Hughes spills the beans: “John Darnielle concedes that […]
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Video: Ray Wylie Hubbard “Spider, Snake And Little Sun”

August 29, 2017 0
The legend that is Ray Wylie Hubbard with a live performance of a song from his latest album, Tell The Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can.

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