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Live Review: James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra + Julian Taylor @ Celtic Connections, Drygate – 4th February 2023

February 13, 2023 Cam Fraser 0
Back in August 2022, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, James Yorkston played a gig at Summerhall featuring two notable but very different guest musicians. Due to a bout of illness, The Second Hand Orchestra’s founder and […]
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The Autumn Saints “Wind Burn & Broken Oak”

February 13, 2023 Rick Bayles 0
Debut studio album from Anglo-American roots rockers. The Autumn Saints are an Anglo-American band playing Americana with a decidedly Indie rock feel. Based in Oxford and fronted by American bass player and vocalist Britt Strickland, this […]
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Jaimee Harris “Boomerang Town”

February 13, 2023 FredArnold 0
With a second album of devastatingly honest songwriting, Jaimee Harris is set for greater things. Jaimee Harris came to attention with her debut album ‘Red Rescue’ in 2018 which was met with significant critical acclaim and […]
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Live Review: Beans on Toast + Will Varley + Rosie H Sullivan @Celtic Connections, Drygate, Glasgow, 5th February 2023

February 13, 2023 KC Vines 0
It’s the closing night of Celtic Connections 2023. Will Varley has driven direct from his gig in Weston Super Mare last night, and is heading for Montrose tomorrow – just about the longest trip between dates […]
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I’m Kingfisher “Glue”

February 10, 2023 Rick Thorn 0
Is this a new genre? Lounge Americana. I’m Kingfisher is the alias of multi-award-winning Swedish folk artist Thomas Jonsson. It is the fifth in this guise and his eight overall. “ All I wanted to do […]

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet to Americana 25, our festival taking place in Liverpool at the end of November, we have sold out around half of […]
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As Graeme Tait takes an enforced break he kindly asked me to step in this month to produce our monthly EP Roundup. I think he knows he has no fears about my contributions matching his excellent […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

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Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Live review: Billy Strings, Islington Assembly Hall, London – 26th March 2022

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The force of nature that is Billy Strings and his touring band hit London for the first time, with two sold-out nights at Islington Assembly Hall, and a buzz of anticipation was evident in the long […]
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Steady Habits “Hold In Your Breath (EP)” (Independent, 2020)

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There is a band called Steady Habits which are a Connecticut-based American punk-ska band: this is definitely not them. This Steady Habits is the unmistakable new Americana project of Sean Duggan of Loud Mountains, and there […]
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Danny Worsnop ‘’The Long Road Home’’ (Earache Records, 2017)

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Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria and We Are Harlot fame has gone solo and released a country record. We’ve seen stories like this coming out of Nashville in great Americana records by Don Henley, to more […]

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