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Jesse Terry “Arcadia”

October 3, 2024 Helen Jones 0
A showcase for great songwriting that shows sometimes the best thing you can do to gain perspective is take a step back. It may seem a little at odds with the idea of making an album, […]
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Electric Hero “Another Time”

October 3, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0
Bassist and producer digs deep into his influences with debut solo album. Electric Hero aka Chris Clarke was previously bassist in Danny and the Champions of The World. Regulars at London’s Betsy Trotwood will be familiar […]
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William Harries Graham “Annie’s House”

October 2, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
A song cycle for every guy who has had a tattoo of his girlfriend’s name inside a heart on his arm. Then she leaves. “Annie’s House” is the fourth album from William Harries Graham since his […]
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Live Review: Dawn Landes & Friends, Milton Court, London – 7th September 2024

October 2, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
No normal gig this, more of an event – with Dawn Landes’s latest album, ‘The Liberated Women’s Songbook‘ at the heart of it.  There’s a band, there are supporting singers and musicians and there are little […]
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Kelley Mickwee “Everything Beautiful”

October 2, 2024 Chas Lacey 0
Soulful singing and retro-production reminiscent of ‘Dusty In Memphis’. Having set out to make “a record that sounds like a girl from Memphis, because that’s who I am”, Kelley Mickwee’s ‘Everything Beautiful’ has a wonderful retro-soul […]

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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

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We will be starting to publish our Americana Stories in June, but the submission deadline is not until the end of August. We have some great work to share with you through the summer, so if […]
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Mia Kelly “Big Time Rollercoaster Feeling”

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In “Big Time Roller Coaster Feeling” Mia Kelly leaps from her roots in folk and blues to a foray into pop territory. At only 23 years of age, Québec-based singer-songwriter Mia Kelly has released her third […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Track Premiere: Simon Flory “Don’t Shake me Lucifer”

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Well, this is a total and utter joy and what a great honour for Americana UK to premiere Simon Flory’s version of the great Roky Erickson’s ‘Don’t Shake Me Lucifer‘.  Could the classic garage rock song […]

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