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David Luximon “A Certain Frame of Reference”

February 4, 2025 Clint West 0
Scottish singer-songwriter impresses on second album. David Luximon is a musician and songwriter based in Perthshire Scotland. This, his second album, was self-produced and recorded with the help of Creative Scotland. The album explores Luximon’s transition […]
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Adrian Crowley “Measure of Joy”

February 3, 2025 Gordon Mackay 0
Adrian Crowley returns with a brooding collection of songs. Four years after ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’, Adrian Crowley returns with his 10th studio offering, the John Parish-produced ‘Measure of Joy’.  What is immediately striking […]
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Ben Nichols & Rick Steff “Lucero Unplugged”

January 31, 2025 Chas Lacey 0
 An acoustic and intense return to songs from the Memphis band’s 25-year history. Though the vogue for Unplugged albums may have peaked in the 90’s with multi-platinum selling versions by the likes of Eric Clapton and […]
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Cave Flowers “Western Spectre”

January 31, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Cave Flowers offers an earthy, rock-solid appeal on the band’s sophomore release. Cave Flowers got its start in 2020 when Andy McAllister split the Pacific Northwest for the hazy hills of Southern California where he connected […]
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Jim White and Trey Blake “Precious Bane”

January 30, 2025 Jonny Brick 0
Elegant folk songs sung with heart and arranged with sensitivity. Before we begin: no, this is not the Jim White who is famous for having worn a yellow tie on Sky Sports News coverage of transfer […]

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Live Review: Emilia Quinn + Sophie-Rose + Finola, Thornton Hough Village Club, Wirral – 25th September 2026

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Upstairs in the green room at Thornton Hough Village Club, a men-only club until 2005, three women rehearse a collaboration that will later blow the audience away. They are Finola, Sophie-Rose, and the headline act Emilia […]
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Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”

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Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of Wonders […]
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Sean Burns “Better Off In Time & Other Songs For The Dance Floor”

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Three chords and the truth from Canadian champion of traditional country. If the Americana umbrella can be shared with its neighbours in roots, folk, and country music, then Sean Burns is firmly in the old-time country […]

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Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”

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Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of Wonders […]
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

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The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

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Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]

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Self-produced project featuring eight tracks performed in three different ways. There can’t be many reading this who don’t know of Tyler Childers. Following his second album ‘Purgatory’, Childers was named emerging artist of the year at […]
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Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, featuring Rakesh Chaurasia “As We Speak”

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Bluegrass as world music, master musicians exploring new ways of combining sounds and styles. If Americana, or indeed America, is anything it is a fusion of influences combining to make something new. In this case Bluegrass […]

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