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Danny Horn & The Shared Myths “The Death of Lucy”

June 20, 2025 John Lee 0

Danny Horn’s latest is an album of emotional wreckage – with heartbreak sometimes hidden beneath melody. “Lucy” is Danny Horn’s muse. She does not die on this album. Rather Horn appears to be putting a line […]

Sam Kelly “Dreamers Dawn”

June 20, 2025 Michael Macy 0

Folk meets pop in new release, and pop comes out on top. Sam Kelly’s new album “Dreamers Dawn” packs power into folk pop. It focuses on original songs, while not always achieving the same depth in […]

Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025

June 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2

The Lexington welcomed JP Harris back with his full band in tow, ready to give an evening of rocking country tunes in styles that predate the big-hat, big-arena styles of the Eighties. There would be honky-tonk, […]

Moonshroom “Take A Trip”

June 19, 2025 Peter Churchill 0

Joyous, trippy debut raises a smile. Moonshroom. Now there’s a name. Formed in 2022 by Kansas City songwriters Lily B Moonflower and Jake Keegan, they call their mix of Americana, bluegrass, country, folk and rock, Grassadelic […]

Live Review: William Tyler + Natalie Wildgoose, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – 4th June 2025

June 19, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

The world feels exceptionally heavy these past several weeks. At times, it becomes absurdly surreal that everyday life drags on with little to no acknowledgement of just how chaotic and frightening things have become for so […]

Sorrel Nation will release sophomore album next month

September 8, 2026 0

Following a breakthrough period that saw major festival appearances, BBC Radio support and the release of her debut album Lost En Route, singer-songwriter Sorrel Nation returns with her second album, Creeping Thyme. The record will be […]

Blaine Todd “Angle of Repose”

September 8, 2026 0

Quirky, gentle release from San Francisco Bay area songwriter and musician. Angle of Repose is the fifth album from Bay area Blaine Todd, a newcomer to our site, but a release with a resonance with many […]

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Stringer

September 8, 2026 0

There are, of course, countless reasons why we love attending gigs and feeding on the buzz that only live music can give. On the Americana circuit that we inhabit in these pages, often at smaller and […]

Danny Horn & The Shared Myths “The Death of Lucy”

Sam Kelly “Dreamers Dawn”

Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025

Moonshroom “Take A Trip”

Live Review: William Tyler + Natalie Wildgoose, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – 4th June 2025

Sorrel Nation will release sophomore album next month

Blaine Todd “Angle of Repose”

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Stringer

Live Review: The Felice Brothers, 100 Club, London – 2nd September 2026

Bloodkin “Flowers & Ash”