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Live Review: Fairport Convention, The Exchange, Twickenham – 4th November 2023

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Going to see Fairport Convention is like catching up with old friends. It certainly is for this reviewer who tonight was nine days short of a half century since his first Fairport gig. If the welcome […]
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Live Review: Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys + Stella Prince, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 4th November 2023

November 15, 2023 Graeme Tait 2
The persistent rain may have put a damper on proceedings for the weekend’s bonfire festivities but it clearly was no deterrent for the enthusiastic congregation that had crammed into Lincolnshire’s premier Americana Music venue at the […]
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Live Review: Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening, Cecil Sharp House, London – 26th October 2023

November 8, 2023 David Chalfen 0
Kathryn Tickell has, down the decades of a 30-year career – her first album released at just 16 years old – been given cultural thumbs up by all the heavyweight Fleet Street broadsheets (younger readers, ask […]
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Live Review: Kassi Valazza + Eli Winter, Mono, Glasgow, 26th October 2023

November 1, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
With Kassi Valazza’s album, ‘Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing’, riding high in my favourite albums of the year it was with a great deal of anticipation that I attended her first Scottish appearance in Glasgow’s hip Mono […]
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Live Review: Lloyd Cole, Union Chapel, London – 21st October 2023

October 27, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 3
“How would you rate yourself as a Lloyd Cole fan out of 10?” asks the stranger sitting down next to me at the Union Chapel. It’s a question which I take some time to ponder. My […]

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Features

The Top Ten Americana Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)

April 9, 2026 0
Almost there! There was never much doubt that John Prine would be represented in this list, and, although a number of his songs appeared in the original writers’ lists, the iconic and most covered song of […]
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Cut Worms “Transmitter”

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This guitar-based pop, produced by Jeff Tweedy, is a departure from previous work. Cut Worms is singer-songwriter Max Clarke, originally from Ohio, but now living in New York. This is his fourth full-length album after Cut […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Madi Diaz Songs

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Madi Diaz has always known she wanted to be a musician. Growing up in a Quaker household in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, her parents rejected a mainstream education for her and her brother, instead home schooling them, […]

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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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Utah “desert music” band 3hattrio count Tom Russell, Steve Martin and Martha Scanlan as fans, the former of which has described them as “sonic pioneers”, and they’ve just announced some UK dates for August and September, […]
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Video Premiere: Daisy Chute “Music is There”

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Daisy Chute’s single, ‘Music is There’, is a quiet anthem for music lovers.  It’s a love song to music, recognising the simple pleasure it gives and delighting in the way it connects people.  Music is a […]
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