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artwork for Natalie Spears album "Hymn Of Wild Things"

Natalie Spears “Hymn Of Wild Things”

June 25, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Spears’ debut album uses the natural world to beautifully weave together the emotions of love and loss. Natalie Spears hails from the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, where the natural world around her offers a soundtrack […]

Kaia Kater “Strange Medicine”

June 25, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

Kaia Kater steps into the limelight with her baroque like folk stylings on a superb third album There’s a sense that Kaia Kater, a Canadian of Grenadian heritage is hitting the zeitgeist on “Strange Medicine”, her […]

artwork for Ana Egge album "Sharing In The Spirit"

Ana Egge “Sharing In The Spirit”

June 24, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Brooklyn-based Ana Egge takes another step forward with thirteenth album. The child of itinerant latter-day hippie parents, Ana Egge and her siblings would find themselves driven in a 1969 Dodge van from New Mexico to North […]

Luke Francis “Saguaro”

June 24, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Gentle indie-folk telling a vivid and evocative story of a break-up. Luke Francis was born and raised in San Francisco but moved to the Pacific Northwest aged 19. He quickly became involved in the indie-folk scene […]

Live Review: The Delines + Freddy Trujillo, Junction 2 Cambridge – 12th June 2024

June 24, 2024 Jonathan Aird 2

The Delines are, of course, widely popular with the readership (and writers!) of Americana UK so it should come as little or no surprise to hear that the band’s appearance at Cambridge’s Junction 2 venue was […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]