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[ September 3, 2026 ] Live Review: Thunder and Rain, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 28th August 2026 Live Reviews
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[ September 3, 2026 ] Video: Cole Gallagher “Chatting Through Steel (Revisited)” ft. David Hidalgo Videos

For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”

July 20, 2026 Paul Russell 3

There are some songs that just hit the spot. Songs that one instantly adores and that have an almost profound effect on you and that you keep coming back to year after year. It’s been nearly […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

July 13, 2026 Jonathan Aird 3

Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter […]

Danny O;Keefe at Cosumer Unity conference 1981

For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”

July 6, 2026 Martin Johnson 0

Danny O’Keefe was one of the many folk-oriented singer-songwriters who flourished in the early ’70s, and while he didn’t break through to platinum success, his songs were covered by the likes of Jackson Browne, Elvis Presley, […]

For the Sake of the Song: Elles Bailey “Starling”

June 29, 2026 John Lee 0

Some songs take time to percolate into you; others sear themselves much quicker. Starling by Elles Bailey is the latter. It is newly released, yet I already know it will be one of those songs that […]

Cover art for Rod MacDonald album "No Commercial Traffic"

For The Sake Of The Song: Rod MacDonald “American Jerusalem”

June 22, 2026 Graeme Tait 1

When I first started subscribing to Americana UK back in 2016, it was like having all my birthdays and Christmas come at once, as it supplied me with a daily diet of everything happening in the […]

Anniversary Cheers: case/lang/veirs celebrates 10 years

September 3, 2026 0

Outstanding one-off album is re-released together with an album of live tracks from the tour that accompanied the album, plus a new song (on vinyl and CD). case/lang/veirs was released in 2016. In keeping with the […]

Alex Dupree “Talking To The Dog”

September 3, 2026 0

Allow yourself to be captivated by a master musician’s vivid imagination. There’s always a hope that listening to a new album will take the listener to a place they hadn’t been to before. Through inspired music […]

Thunder and Rain, live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey - 28th August 2026

Live Review: Thunder and Rain, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 28th August 2026

September 3, 2026 0

As I travelled to this evening’s show through the Lincolnshire countryside, the consequences of this long, hot summer were visible as far as the eye could see. In place of the “green and pleasant land” so […]