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Track premiere: Rebecca Blasband “Those Happy Days”

October 2, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Rebecca Blasband has been recording for over two decades now, and she’s sharing her new track ‘Those Happy Days’ from her new album which (wait for this…) she wrote with […]
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Glasgow Americana returns with its best line up yet

October 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Glasgow Americana has lined up ten gigs featuring overseas and home-based acts for this year’s five day long festival. The on-stage action for the 12th Glasgow Americana will take place at six city venues from Wednesday […]
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Track premiere: Colin Devlin “Water”

October 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Dublin-born/ L.A. based songwriter Colin Devlin is gearing up to release his sophomore LP ‘High Point’ on Friday, which is produced by Pierre Marchand (Sara McLachlan, Rufus Wainright), and he’s shared this beautiful little track from […]
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Nick Mulvey to guest curate Cambridge 2019

September 28, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
So the weekend beckons dear readers.  Have a good one whatever you get up to. Leaving you today with news that Cambridge Folk Festival have announced that local lad Nick Mulvey will be returning to Cambridge in 2019 as […]
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Jason Isbell is the Twitter big hitter against right wing trolls

September 28, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
RS Country has a nice piece in it today about Jason Isbell’s excellent track record with combating Trump supporting Twitter combatants which, let’s face it, would be a drain on anyone. They describe how almost a decade on […]

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The Milk Carton Kids to tour UK and Ireland in January 2027

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The Milk Carton Kids will return to the UK and Ireland for a run of headline dates in January 2027, including London’s Barbican Centre, Bristol Beacon, Manchester’s Albert Hall, Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre and Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre. […]
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Little Sparta “The Telling of the Truth”

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The new release by Little Sparta takes Mekons collaboration in directions old and new. After 26 years at work and 20 years since their first release, veteran Alan D. Boyd’s project Little Sparta just put out […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

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Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]

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Tales of people and places in America’s north west The lines, “I’m going west, west, west with you my love/ ‘Cause that’s what’s best for us right now” not only start the album’s opener, ‘Going West’, but […]
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Essentials: The top 10 Palace tracks before Will Oldham became Bonnie Prince Billy

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I thought it best to start at the genesis of BPB through the various guises and before BPB became the nom de plume de jour. I would find it impossible to tease out the 10 best […]
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“What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?” – Gordon Sharpe

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You lucky people: whilst we are all (hopefully) self-isolating – watch how quickly that comment dates – you will have plenty of time to read the latest instalment of “What Is This Americana Thing Anyway” in […]

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