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Giant Sand return to their Valley of Rain

June 5, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

35 years after releasing their debut album, ‘Valley of Rain’, Howe Gelb and his Tucson based tearaways Giant Sand have only gone and re recorded the whole shebang and following on a clutch of shows in […]

Nashville Meets London (again) at the end of next month

June 5, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

This week at Waterloo Station you can find the sights and sounds of Tennessee, and if that’s not enough Tennesseean goodness for you then fear not because the Nashville Meets London Music Festival music festival returns […]

“Sights & Sounds of Tennessee” to debut at Waterloo Station next week

June 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you with this for this week which is quite exciting if you’re anywhere near London next week. The beckon call of live music, complimentary Jack Daniel’s and what’s described as “an immersive multisensory experience” will […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Waylon Jennings “Mental Revenge”

June 1, 2018 Paul Villers 0

We like to think ourselves as fairly tolerant folk here at Americana-UK Towers and are prepared to forgive and forget most things (except not putting fifty pence in the meter over the Bank Holiday so that […]

Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis set to go Wild! in August

June 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Robbie Fulks, who was nominated for two 2017 Grammy Awards last year, has announced details of a new album ‘Wild! Wild! Wild!’, a collaboration with rock-and-roll royalty Linda Gail Lewis, which arrives August 10th on the […]

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John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Essentials: The Top 10 James McMurtry Songs

May 21, 2026 1

It was the legendary American author Stephen King who said, “James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation”. At the same time, much closer to home, BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris called him “the […]

Bedouine “Neon Summer Skin”

May 21, 2026 0

A beautiful reflection on family, and the search for home and belonging, with a new depth to the music. Bedouine is the project of Azniv Korkejian. Her family has migrated between Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia […]

Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

May 21, 2026 0

Esteemed Portland, Oregon-based artist Laura Veirs has announced that her new album, Temple Songs, will come out on 14th August via her label Raven Marching Band Records. Veirs has also shared her lead single Flying Into […]

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1

At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

Videos

Video: The Mukherjee Development “Wish I Were the Sun”

January 12, 2022 0

The Mukherjee Development describe their sound as, “Nordic Sunshine Music,” and this is the perfect self-coined label for their melodic, shimmering folk. Oscar Mukherjee, the band’s vocalist and songwriter, has Danish/Indian parents but spent his formative years […]

Tracks

Julian Taylor “100 Proof” – it’s a way to live life

October 26, 2021 0

Julian Taylor’s rich warm tones are here put to work delivering the uplifting ‘100 Proof’ which was written by a friend of his, Toronto-based musician Tyler Ellis. It acts as a bridge between Taylor’s last album, the […]

Tracks

Morsel “Four Wheels” – heading down the road with no plan

October 3, 2023 0

‘Four Wheels‘ is the third single from ‘On A Bee Line‘, the second album from Denver based rootsy jam-band Morsel, who merge the acoustic and the electric on this pacey paean to escaping at pace down […]

Giant Sand return to their Valley of Rain

Nashville Meets London (again) at the end of next month

“Sights & Sounds of Tennessee” to debut at Waterloo Station next week

Pick of the Political Pops: Waylon Jennings “Mental Revenge”

Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis set to go Wild! in August

Essentials: The Top 10 James McMurtry Songs

Bedouine “Neon Summer Skin”

Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

Simon Joyner “Tough Love”

Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”