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Piers Faccini “Shapes of the Fall”

April 26, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0
Well crafted intimate and evocative music. It feels like this reviewer has been living on the edge recently – the edge that is of whatever genre definitions might normally apply. There has been a succession of […]
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Visions of Albion “Visions of Albion”

April 23, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0
A cracking debut EP showcasing folky Americana with impassioned vocals and an English slant. Samantha Shields has a superb voice which moves from the fragility of the multi-layered vocal harmonies of the meandering folky ‘Old Time […]
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Minor Moon “Tethers”

April 23, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Imaginative, unusual and muddy. A small moon can, of course, be a Deathstar, a thought that surely couldn’t have escaped Sam Cantor who – of course – is the singer, guitarist and songwriter of Minor Moon.  […]
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StevieRay Latham & The Nomads of Industrial Suburbia “Letters From Suburbia”

April 22, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0
Exploring the dark underbelly of suburbia through gothic alt-folk. This final EP of a trilogy finds StevieRay Latham in experimental and artistic territory, playing with the concepts of the dark, gothic underbelly of suburbia. Opening with […]
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Maria Shiel “Fire in the Sea!”

April 22, 2021 Viv Fish 0
An album that ebbs and flows around exotic crescendos, wanting for nothing. A seasoned songwriter and musician, Maria Shiel has quite a musical history. She has performed shows across Ireland, Europe and the USA and worked […]

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Something for the weekend: Black Midi “Still”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year knees up featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and a whole load more americana, you can pick them […]
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Charley Crockett “Age of the Ram”

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Americana favourite delivers the final chapter of his adventurous Sagebrush Trilogy that concludes with the mythological and wide-ranging story of the ‘Outlaw’ Billy MacLane. Readers of Americana UK are likely to be very familiar with the […]
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Tift Merrit announces new album “Sugar”

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Listen to the first single to be taken from it below. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has announced Sugar, her first album in nearly a decade, due out June 26th via One Riot which is described as […]

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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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New collection of songs shows Nash’s songwriting is undimmed. There was a time when the ambition of a rock and roll band was to do as well as they could for their brief period in the […]

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