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Smoke Fairies share details of new album in advance of UK dates

September 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Following on from the release of their highly-praised 2020 LP ‘Darkness Brings Wonders Home’, which was applauded by the likes of Mojo, Clash Magazine, Q and ourselves of course, alt-folk duo Smoke Fairies aka Katherine Blamire […]
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Ashley Campbell and Thor Jensen announce new project

September 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Listen to the lead single from the album ‘P&P’. Campbell / Jensen is a new project from two musicians with a fairly huge array of experience across the worlds of Americana, country, bluegrass, gypsy jazz and […]
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Allison Russell announces UK dates for 2024

September 19, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, activist, and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell has announced three headline shows in the UK and an appearance at TradFest in Dublin on 26th January. The tour finishes with a performance at London’s Lafayette […]
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Billy Bragg honoured on Camden Music Walk of Fame

September 13, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
It’s fair to say that there are few people around these parts who are as loved as Billy Bragg, partly for making consistently great music for all those years and partly for all the shit he […]
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Bob Dylan finally releases what we’ve all been waiting for

September 8, 2023 Jonathan Aird 3
That is, of course a provocative headline – and few albums in his storied catalogue have split listeners more widely than ‘Bob Dylan At Budokan.‘  On Dylan’s first tour foray outside of the USA since 1966, […]

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Live Review: Carson McHone, The Chapel, The Angel Microbrewery, Nottingham – 3rd September 2026

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The excitement was almost tangible amidst the rather irregular queue that had formed early outside the entrance to The Chapel, upstairs at The Angel Microbrewery in Nottingham, for the return to the city of possibly Austin, […]
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Josh Rouse joins New West and delivers Brad “1972” Jones produced new album

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Josh Rouse has signed to New West Records and will release his label debut, Museums and Women, on October 23rd. The 10-song set was produced by Brad Jones, who also produced Rouse’s critically acclaimed 2003 album […]
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Laurelyn Dossett “How Many Moons?”

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A mature, accomplished and timeless debut. A songwriter for artistes such as Levon Helm and Rhiannon Giddens, Laurelyn Dossett makes a long-overdue step towards the spotlight in releasing her debut album, How Many Moons? produced by […]

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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

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Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

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It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Rich Layton & Tough Town “Salvation Road” – Listen

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The swampiest of rock is embodied on this title track single taken from Rich Layton’s latest album release (due May 31st).  Houston-raised Gulf Coast musicians Rich Layton and co-producer Terry Wilson grew up steeped in multiple […]
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Violet Whimsey “Come To Me” – no, we are in love. Trust me.

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New Jersey band Violet Whimsey are led by Ann Kim who wrote this song, the band’s new single, with a little help from a seminar.  See, they can work.  As she tells it, it all began […]
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Lucy Farrell “Paperthin” – like walls, like emotions

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‘Paperthin‘ is the first single from Lucy Farrell’s new album ‘We Are Only Sound‘ out on prestigious Hudson Records on April 21st, which marks her solo recording debut.  Yeah, we were surprised too – a stalwart […]

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