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Walled Garden Music Festival announced for July

February 4, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Nottingham’s Cosmic American Music has teamed up with the historic Thoresby Park in Sherwood Forest to curate a brand new Americana and Roots festival within the grounds of the estate in North Nottinghamshire, a stone’s throw […]
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Catherine MacLellan “Emmet’s Song” – Listen

January 28, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Catherine MacLellan has spent four years celebrating the work of her father Gene MacLellan through recordings and a stage show, but has returned with her own music on her sixth album ‘Coyote’ and ‘Emmet’s Song’ comes […]
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Middlesbrough kicks off its folk & country programme with Teilhard Frost & Sam Baker

January 28, 2020 Mark Underwood 0
Middlesbrough town hall is set to host two folk and country artists on Thursday and Friday of this week. Opening proceedings is Canadian fiddle-player Teilhard Frost on Thursday with Texan folk musician Sam Baker to follow […]
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Jerry Leger takes time out for UK tour

January 22, 2020 Mark Underwood 0
Canadian singer-songwriter, Jerry Leger, is someone who has been on our radar since the release of his excellent double album, ‘Nonsense and Heartache’ which first came out in Europe on Michael Timmins’ label, Latent Recordings, in […]
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Ramblin’ Roots Revue returns! Here’s the full line-up

January 20, 2020 Mark Underwood 2
The always excellent Ramblin’ Roots festival has announced its line-up for 2020, a 3-day event which takes place from April 24th to 26th at Bucks Student Union in High Wycombe. Now in its fourth year, The […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Dean Owens “Sally’s Song (I Dreamed Of Michael Marra)”

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Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

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For The Sake Of The Song: Dean Owens “Sally’s Song (I Dreamed Of Michael Marra)”

July 27, 2026 0
Dean Owens is, of course, no stranger to these pages. With twelve albums and numerous AUK awards behind him, a search on this site will provide pages of reviews, interviews and videos. Typing the name Michael […]
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Mick Flannery “The House Must Win”

July 27, 2026 0
A labour of love, twenty years in the making from renowned Irish singer-songwriter. It is more than twenty years since Mick Flannery released his debut album Evening Train, but the tale it told of (as he puts […]
Robert Plany Savking Grace
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Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0
The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

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  • Mick Flannery “The House Must Win”
  • Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”
  • Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween
  • Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]
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Interview: Have Gun, Will Travel is constantly evolving – What a concept!

July 22, 2026 0
Have Gun, Will Travel is the name of the band with the emphasis on travel. Not so much touring all over the world, but exploration, whether in their three concept albums or the songs written for […]
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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 4
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

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Video: Jo Schornikow “Ghosts”

March 7, 2019 0
Jo Schornikow plays with Phosphorescent but has taken time out for a debut solo album Secret Weapon, out on March 29th, from which this rather delicate and lovely song is taken.  Great video too.
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Chicago “In Terms of Two” – Listen

October 29, 2018 4
Peter Cetera is performing live tonight at the Barbican, his first UK show in over three decades. Woefully under-rated as both a songwriter and a vocalist (his voice still being one of the most distinctive of […]
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Paddy Nash “Rapture Song” – Listen

February 16, 2021 0
Derry’s Paddy Nash has a new single out – ‘Rapture Song‘ – in fact it’s been out for a little while, as it was the potential antidote to Blue Monday (the third Monday of the year […]

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