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The Jayhawks “Bitter Pill” – Listen

June 29, 2020 Mark Whitfield 2
‘Bitter Pill’ is the latest track to be lifted from the incoming Jayhawks album ‘XOXO’ which is due for release July 10th via Sham/Thirty Tigers, the band’s most collaborative and diverse record in their four-decade-long career. […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks “I Scare Myself”

June 29, 2020 Martin Johnson 2
Last week’s Chain Gang track was Hot Club of Cowtown’s ‘Pennies From Heaven’ and it is impossible to imagine artists like Hot Club of Cowtown without the ground breaking example of that true eccentric Dan Hicks […]
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Oxygenpony “Twenty One” – Listen

June 29, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s been a long time – like a decade – since we last heard from Paul Megna who’s previous band, Oxygen Ponies, produced a trio of albums featuring memorable hazy dreamlike music – with a tendency […]
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Something for the weekend: Ruston Kelly “Radio Cloud”

June 26, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
We leave you this week dear reader with a new track out today from the forthcoming album ‘Shape & Destroy’ which comes out August 28th on his new label home Rounder Records, and which we’re already […]
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Dixie no more – The Chicks are born

June 26, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
The Dixie Chicks are no more – the band continues, but they are now The Chicks.  It’s a move prompted by the same criticism that caused Lady Antebellum to become Lady A  a fortnight ago. To […]

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George Mann and Si Kahn “Mayday!”

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JP Harris is “Shaving A Dead Man” with his new album

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More People Really Should Know About: Charm Of Finches

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Matt Jones and the Bobs “Matt Jones and the Bobs”

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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 0
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
Album Reviews

George Mann and Si Kahn “Mayday!”

July 7, 2026 0
An old-styled folk protest album from two past masters of the genre which skewers the current administration with acerbic lyrics. This is George Mann and Si Kahn’s second album working together following the release of Labor […]
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JP Harris is “Shaving A Dead Man” with his new album

July 7, 2026 0
JP Harris, known across the americana world as a craftsman of outlaw country and old-time music, has announced his sixth full-length album. Shaving A Dead Man, produced by and featuring GRAMMY-winning musician Chance McCoy (Old Crow […]

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  • George Mann and Si Kahn “Mayday!”
  • JP Harris is “Shaving A Dead Man” with his new album
  • More People Really Should Know About: Charm Of Finches
  • Matt Jones and the Bobs “Matt Jones and the Bobs”
  • Tough Old Bird “Wednesday’s Child” – keeping it all quiet
  • Video: Ryan Bingham “Let the Big Dog Eat” ft. The Texas Gentlemen
  • For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”
  • Rodney Crowell “Then Again”
  • Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 0
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]
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Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0
It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

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France’s Eldorado festival brings americana stars to NW France in late June

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After a first promising edition in September 2024, the one and only americana Fest in France, Eldorado, returns to the village of Vancé in NW France (close to Le Mans) with its second edition on 26th […]
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Chris Eckman “The Land We Knew The Best”

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Total absorbtion from the mountains of Slovenia. For this, his seventh solo album, Chris Eckman introduces a more layered, richer feel than its predecessor. The languid vocals that alone generate so much atmosphere remain but he […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Tom Rapp “A Journal of the Plague Year”

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A contributory article to an occasional series. Italo Calvino, the eminent Italian writer, once wrote, “The more we think we know the classics through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we […]

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