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Interview: Cat Clyde on how blues, jazz and country move her

October 17, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Singing as a child grounded her and Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, and Bobbie Gentry inspired her. The term singer-songwriter is used with abandon within the americana and folk genres but there are only a few artists […]

Interview: Thea Gilmore on how a few beats helped release the real Thea Gilmore

October 10, 2023 Martin Johnson 8

Afterlight represented the start of a regeneration. Thea Gilmore is 20 albums and 25 years into her career which on the face of it is not the most obvious point to release her eponymous album, particularly […]

Interview: Charley Crockett on playing to the ghosts of The Ryman

October 3, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

The debt owed to James “Slim” Hand and the juke joints and honky tonks of Texas. He may have been playing music since he was seventeen years old, but it has taken until he is nearly […]

Interview: Cruz Contreras on cosmic country and Idaho

September 26, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Mixing lo-fi with classic sounds and a Steinway piano to create a unique sound. After 25 years playing music, latterly with his band the Black Lillies, Cruz Contreras has finally got around to releasing his first […]

Interview: Tommy Prine on going this far South with friends

September 21, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Songs that document the journey to being a man. Acclaimed singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly helped to persuade his friend, Tommy Prine, that he should pursue a life in music. Subsequently, Kelly, a wise man, indeed, co-produced ‘This […]

Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK

July 15, 2026 3

Correction: The original version of this story described James Taylor as arriving in the UK next week, when as one of our readers has pointed out in the comments, he’s already played Scotland and is in […]

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

July 15, 2026 0

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow proves that Democracy is strongest when it is diverse. It’s hard to pin down Whiskey Treaty Roadshow. They are all over the map, stylistically, and as a collective. Over the course of more […]

Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026