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Jane Allison “Methylene Blue” (Horus Music Limited 2017)

March 1, 2018 Jim Finnie 0
Just occasionally, an album comes along where almost from the first note the music just reaches out, wraps itself around you and reaches deep into your very soul. With her second album, Methylene Blue, Aberystwyth born […]
Album Reviews

Nathaniel Bellows “Swan and Wolf” (Independent 2018)

March 1, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 1
Polymath Bellows has released an album and accompanying art work designed to give the listener a whole artistic experience. This reviewer is fairly unimpressed. In order to arrest the attention of an audience, an artist needs […]
Album Reviews

Owen Williams “Standing Still Will Kill You” (Independent 2018)

February 28, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0
Opening with the Gospel-tinged ‘Else The Devil Try’ and then dragging the choir into the far more country rocky ‘The Man Who Ate The Hurricane’ sets Williams’s stall out as a purveyor of the gothic country […]
Live Reviews

The Hanging Stars, the Victoria, Dalston, London, 22nd February 2018

February 28, 2018 Mark Underwood 0
The Hanging Stars brought the sound of summer to the Victoria pub in Dalston on an otherwise cold and dismal February night last Thursday. Launching their sophomore release, ‘Songs for Somewhere Else,’ The Hanging Stars were appropriately […]
Album Reviews

All The Luck In The World “A Blind Arcade” (Independent 2018)

February 27, 2018 Mark Underwood 0
All The Luck in the World are three young Irish songwriters from County Wicklow who gained a degree of attention when a home recorded song of theirs titled ‘Never’ gained a large following on YouTube back […]

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Kingfishr “The Sunny Side Of The Street” – remembering Shane MacGowan

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Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!

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Kate Prascher “Sunday Afternoon”

August 26, 2026 0
Behind the smile, a sense of dread, with anxieties flowing from all emotional directions. On her second album, Kate Prascher continues to draw from her influences: raised in Memphis, with a childhood spent amid the heart […]
Tracks

Kingfishr “The Sunny Side Of The Street” – remembering Shane MacGowan

August 26, 2026 0
Irish folk band Kingfishr are the latest to release a cover of a Shane MacGowan song in advance of the appearance of the tribute album 20th Century Paddy.   Across almost three dozen songs 20th Century Paddy […]
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Video Premiere: Ardentjohn “Into The Night”

August 26, 2026 0
Into The Night is Ardentjohn’s second single of the year, following the energetic Hey Boy. It’s another song perfect for your late-summer soundtrack. Waves and layers of sound immerse you immediately, beginning with Seth Marron’s rolling, […]

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  • Jim James “Wowed Out”
  • Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the weird in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 0
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]
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Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0
One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]
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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]

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Something for the weekend: Tim Minchin “The Aeroplane”

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Well that’s it for another week dear reader. We are full of cold here in Americana Towers which feels like a combination of all the colds we didn’t get during Covid – they always catch up […]
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Live Review: The Lumineers, Hoxton Hall, London – 17th January 2025

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London’s Hoxton Hall—a very fine east End Victorian Music Hall—was a suitably intimate venue for a special stripped-down set by The Lumineers, as a preview for their fans of their forthcoming album “Automatic” out on the […]
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Silver Lining “Your Everything” – Nordicana Perfection (yet again!)

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So, the PR for this one arrives with the suggestion “RIYL: Darling West, The Northern Belle, Malin Peterssen, Erin Rae, Courtney Marie Andrews“, and we do and we do and we do and we do and then […]

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