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[ September 22, 2023 ] Something for the weekend: Great Lake Swimmers “Peacemaker” Tracks
[ September 22, 2023 ] Gregg Hill “Bayou St. John” Album Reviews
[ September 22, 2023 ] Live Review: Septembersong, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire – 17th September 2023 Live Reviews
[ September 22, 2023 ] Classic Clips: Jackson Browne with JD Souther – AMA Awards Ryman Auditorium, 2014 Classic Clips
[ September 22, 2023 ] Live Review: Bonny Light Horseman with the London Contemporary Orchestra, The Barbican, London – 15th September 2023 Live Reviews

For the Sake of the Song: Dave Alvin “The Man in the Bed”

September 18, 2023 Clint West 3

Welcome to ‘For The Sake Of The Song’, our latest new series. It aims to celebrate individual songs and each week our writers will choose one of their own particular favourites to share with you. Dave […]

Gregg Hill “Bayou St. John”

September 22, 2023 0

An album that’s most definitely born on the bayou. Bayou St. John is one of New Orleans’ oldest neighbourhoods and this album is very much inspired by this part of the Big Easy. Gregg Hill moved […]

artwork for Briscoe album "West Of It All"

Briscoe “West Of It All”

September 22, 2023 0

Excellent debut album from Texan duo stuffed full of songs with catchy melodies and strong harmonies. Hailing from Texas, Briscoe are made up of Truett Heintzelman and Philip Lupton who first met as fourteen-year-olds at a […]

Album artwork for Viv & Riley's 'Imaginary People'

Viv & Riley “Imaginary People”

September 21, 2023 0

Viv & Riley sing sweet songs of reflection from the front seat. The latest album, ‘Imaginary People,’ by Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno—now going by Viv and Riley—is an easygoing set of folk-pop reflections, warm as […]

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 46

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague, who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Martin Johnson

August 31, 2023 27

How does anyone go about determining the top ten americana artists ever, and once you’ve worked that one out, how do you rank them in a meaningful way? These are the legitimate questions facing Americana UK […]

Something for the weekend: Great Lake Swimmers “Peacemaker”

Tracks

September 22, 2023 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 […]

Gregg Hill “Bayou St. John”

Album Reviews

September 22, 2023 0

Live Review: Septembersong, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire – 17th September 2023

Live Reviews

September 22, 2023 0

lt’s mid September but the trees are yet to exhibit their autumnal hues as I pedal through the South Oxfordshire countryside to Braziers Park, for the final day of the Septembersong festival. It doesn’t feel like […]

Classic Clips: Jackson Browne with JD Souther – AMA Awards Ryman Auditorium, 2014

Classic Clips

September 22, 2023 1

The 2014 Americana Music Awards at the Ryman Auditorium saw Jackson Browne awarded the Spirit of Americana/Free Speech in Music award. If that sounds like a made-up award aimed solely at the recipient well then, so […]

Live Review: Bonny Light Horseman with the London Contemporary Orchestra, The Barbican, London – 15th September 2023

Live Reviews

September 22, 2023 0

It’s quite a thought that in early 2020 Bonny Light Horseman (Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, Josh Kaufman) could be found playing in The Lexington – a lovely place in many ways, but on no one’s […]

For The Sake Of The Song

For the Sake of the Song: Dave Alvin “The Man in the Bed”

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