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Christopher Wright “The Other Side”

March 18, 2025 Stephen Rostkoski 0
Christopher Wright’s debut album is an unflinching journey through life’s struggles. East Texan singer-songwriter Christopher Wright survived addiction, jail time and a serious health crisis, to make his debut album, aptly titled “The Other Side”. His cool, […]
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Rich(ard) Dawson “End of the Middle”

March 18, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
Rich(ard) Dawson wanders through northern life, like a folk soap opera. Rich(ard) Dawson (the second syllable in his first name is expressed in parenthesis for this release, suggesting that he wants to be known as Rich, […]
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Jason Boland and the Stragglers “The Last Kings Of Babylon”

March 17, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
A reflective album that finds Boland and the Searchers still firing on all cylinders as they come back down to earth. Originally from Harare, Oklahoma, but in recent years a resident of Texas, Jason Boland and […]
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Marty Bohannon/Matt Bohannon “A Scar Is Born”/”Go Back To Your Roots”

March 14, 2025 Andy Short 0
The Bohannon brothers go solo with fine results. Marty and Matt Bohannon are brothers from Chattanooga, Tennessee. After over twenty years of playing together and delivering some mighty southern rock, they decided to split for a […]
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Pug Johnson “El Cabron”

March 14, 2025 Peter Churchill 0
Texan digs deep into his roots and heads south for an infectious listen. Pug Johnson is undeniably a country singer. Listening to the first few lines of opening track ‘Big Trains’ will soon confirm that Johnson […]

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Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair’s Indie Hourzz session

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet to Americana 25, our festival taking place in Liverpool at the end of November, we have sold out around half of […]
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A searing display of grief through ten bare songs. How we all cope with grief is complex and individual, though the ability of energising one’s sadness through music is a powerful and positive one. Belfast’s Joshua […]
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As Graeme Tait takes an enforced break he kindly asked me to step in this month to produce our monthly EP Roundup. I think he knows he has no fears about my contributions matching his excellent […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Taken from her album Wild Heart, Kashena Sampson is the archetypal late starter who it is hard to believe has been previously overlooked.  No more – Rolling Stone have given her a nod as someone in […]
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Mightmare “Cruel Liars”

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From country rock to mesmeric indie. Freed from months of pandemic restrictions Sarah Shook might have been expected to kick the doors down with even more ferocity than with their band The Disarmers. Particularly if the […]
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“What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?” – Paul Villers

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Well we haven’t had a piece for a while (lots of things going on but people are staying safe, thankfully) so the ‘developer’ of this feature is going to put his own ten pence worth in. […]

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