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Tom Heyman “24th Street Blues”

January 19, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
A selection of songs drawing out personal themes of place, family and relationships performed by class musicians. Tom Heyman moved to San Francisco with his wife Deirdre White over 20 years ago and after several moves […]
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The Rye Sisters “Distant Light”

January 19, 2024 Graeme Tait 3
A Joyous sophomore album guaranteed to banish the Mid-Winter blues. The Rye Sisters are a duo from Lincolnshire comprising of Sue Pomeroy guitar and vocals and Ishani Siriwardena violin and vocals who first joined forces back […]
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Hanks Company Band “Herb Deluxe”

January 18, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0
Smoky blues rising from the swamp. On the strength of its rhythmic swampy blues and rasping vocals laden with soul this must be a record made in Louisiana sometime in the early 1970s. If the name […]
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Old Heavy Hands “Small Fires”

January 18, 2024 Helen Jones 1
Electric southern rock that’s both grown up and rebellious at the same time. “Heard you were leaving town with some other boy / Looking back on everything that I’ve destroyed / Full of misery and heartache,” […]
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Book Review: Scott Eyman “Charlie Chaplin versus America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided”

January 17, 2024 Rick Bayles 0
This is the last book I received for review before I stepped down as Books Editor for Americana UK, so you’ll be reading this review after I leave. My first reaction, when I received this book, […]

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Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

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Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]
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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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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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Video: Joana Serrat “Unnamed”

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As you may have read on this site last week, the wonderful Joana Serrat starts a UK tour in Manchester on Thursday 24th.  This lovely four and a half minutes is from her new album ‘Dripping […]
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The Swamptruck Good Time Band “Swamptruck Good Time Band” (Independent, 2019)

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This is the debut album from an established group of five musicians, based in Cambridge UK, well known at local festivals, and at The Cambridge Festival itself. They are much revered locally. ‘Good Time Band,’ the […]
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Taylor James Donskey “Gimme Some Time” – have we run out ?

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This is a strange one, as Minneapolis singer songwriter Taylor James Donskey wrote this song a a tribute to something that happened getting on for half a decade ago.  What were you doing in 2020?  He […]

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