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Folk Roundup – Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, Ryan Young, The Rosie Hood Band, Honey And The Bear, Miscellany Of Folk

November 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Here we are with the second edition of Americana UK’s latest roundup of albums that could happier be tagged as Folk than purely as Americana. This month the music is very solidly within the British folksong […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 120

November 17, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Near impossible… It’s been a long time (luckily) since I have to had to try to find a flat or place to live. My daughter is in the midst of the horror now. Full-time job, nice […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 119

November 10, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

How business should be. Preparing and delivering a radio/Mixcloud show that operates under the banner of association with this esteemed website takes some organisation, thought and the occasional biting of tongue when faced with some of […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 118

November 3, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 2

The world interrupts. Writing this column and creating a radio show is, in many ways, an idyllic way to spend one’s spare time but one should not fail to acknowledge the horrors that are being visited […]

View from Across La Manche #19 – From Our Own Correspondent

October 30, 2023 Rick Bayles 2

Bed bugs and Broomsticks. There has been a lot of noise, recently, about the bed bug problem in Paris, not least of all here in France. ‘Les punaises de lit’ are a major problem in Paris […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tracks by the least likely suspects

July 23, 2026 2

Before you shout at me remember this is supposed to be fun…. I have opened up and bared my soul on a couple of occasions about my past as a teenage rocker in the 1970s, with […]

Ed Askew “The Final Painting”

July 23, 2026 0

Profound, moving and beautiful reveries on posthumous release from ‘Outsider Folk’ poet. Ed Askew was a New York artist, poet, songwriter and genuine underground legend. Having first broken through with his self-titled album in 1968 (subsequently […]

artwork for Conway Savage album "Too Dark To See"

Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”