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Cordovas “High Roller” – playing for high stakes

July 14, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
This new song from Cordovas is pitched in a classic Cosmic Country meets Southern Rock meets Grateful Dead jamming – there’s a real feel of on the fly inspiration and improvisation on this tale of drunken […]
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Andy Lowe “Barbry Allen” – not the most empathetic young lady…

July 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
This new single from Andy Lowe is a bluegrass reworking of the well known traditional song ‘Barbry Allen‘ a song noteworthy for it’s wonderful rhymes as much as for the story of “hard-hearted Barbry Allen,” a […]
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Ross Cooper “Everyone Wants To Be A Cowboy” – let’s go shovel that manure!

July 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Yes, Ross Cooper knows the reality – the wearing leather chaps, the riding a horse, the big, big hat.  These are the things that people like about being a cowboy.  Oooh, and the boots and the […]
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Track Premiere: Beth Bombara “Moment”

July 12, 2023 Jonathan Aird 2
What a pleasure to be able to offer you, our dear readership, an early listen to the latest song released by the awesome Beth Bombara and taken from the new album ‘It All Goes Up‘ which […]
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Radiator King “Hammer & Nails” – I’d rather be a hammer than a nail, yes I would

July 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Looking at that band photo (left to right we have Alexander Burke, Adam Silvestri, Brian Viglione) we can’t help but think of one our favourite lines from ‘Almost Famous‘: an impassioned Russell asks the world “is […]

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Laura Cortese “Lucky Water”

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First Aid Kit & the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London - 30th September 2026

Live Review: First Aid Kit and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Albert Hall, London – 30th September 2026

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Laura Cortese “Lucky Water”

October 5, 2026 0
Low-key folk with beautiful vocals and evocative, atmospheric, sensuous words. Laura Cortese grew up in San Francisco and discovered folk music through the fiddle camps she attended. She has toured with artists including The Mountain Goats […]
First Aid Kit & the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London - 30th September 2026
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Live Review: First Aid Kit and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Albert Hall, London – 30th September 2026

October 5, 2026 0
Almost exactly 12 years after First Aid Kit first played the Royal Albert Hall, they’re back at the same venue, this time with the 65-piece Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in tow, conducted by Erik Arvinder. Tickets went […]
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Wynonna “Hear Me Now” – if only we could

October 5, 2026 0
Wynonna Judd has just released her latest album; it came out last Friday, and it is, she says, the most personal album of her career. For example, this single, which is about the complicated love, loss, […]

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  • Live Review: First Aid Kit and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Albert Hall, London – 30th September 2026
  • Wynonna “Hear Me Now” – if only we could
  • Video: Charlie Sherbourne & The Nightbirds “All I Ever Wanted”
  • Some sad news to end the week with: Americana UK loses two of our best, Paul Kerr and Martin Johnson
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 country-soul songs

July 30, 2026 2
As a teenager, I would have been very sniffy about both country and soul music. However, years have made me wiser, and I now fully appreciate them both. Country-soul is a great hybrid, with soul lending […]
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Video: Ferris & Sylvester “Sometimes”

October 3, 2018 0
A video done by Aardman (with Shiny Eye) of Wallace and Gromit fame just has to be posted. and when it comes with a song like this from Ferris and Sylvester, well, it’s a perfect combination.  […]
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Graham Nash “Better Life” – now would be a good time to be greener

May 24, 2023 0
Well, the feeling is now that the odds are better than 50% that we’re not going to keep global warming below 1.5 C.  It’s no real surprise – it’s 26 years since the Kyoto accord and […]

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