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Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival, 4th-8th October 2023

September 27, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

One of our favourite americana festivals Glasgow Americana returns next month from 4th-8th October 2023 The line up consists of 9 shows over 5 different spaces throughout Glasgow and brings together talent performers from Scotland, England, […]

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Something for the weekend: Great Lake Swimmers “Peacemaker”

September 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a new release from Ontario’s Great Lake Swimmers who have never actually confirmed if they can all swim but they do make […]

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Smoke Fairies share details of new album in advance of UK dates

September 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Following on from the release of their highly-praised 2020 LP ‘Darkness Brings Wonders Home’, which was applauded by the likes of Mojo, Clash Magazine, Q and ourselves of course, alt-folk duo Smoke Fairies aka Katherine Blamire […]

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Video: Passenger “Life’s For The Living” (Feat. Foy Vance – Anniversary Edition)

September 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

We are huge fans of Passenger around these parts and it’s hard to believe that it’s eleven years ago now that Mike Rosenberg released his breakthrough album ‘All The Little Lights’. The years leading up to […]

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Ashley Campbell and Thor Jensen announce new project

September 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Listen to the lead single from the album ‘P&P’. Campbell / Jensen is a new project from two musicians with a fairly huge array of experience across the worlds of Americana, country, bluegrass, gypsy jazz and […]

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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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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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Canadian singer-songwriter, who’ll be in the UK with his band in April, has just released this short, sharp and distinctly groovy and poppy single from his new album Nonsense And Heartache, out on March 2nd.  Great […]

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Oh no – it’s actually December!  How did that happen?  Well, the same way that it always happens – Christmas and the annual festivities around a week off from Americana UK always seems so far away.  […]

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Something for the weekend: The Burrito Brothers “Christmas Moon”

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Well that’s it from us for another week dearest reader and if you’re not already sick of the Christmas mush rush (we promise to not overdose you), we’re leaving you until Monday with a track from […]

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