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Americana UK Deputy Editor Jon Aird has a daily listen to the best new americana tracks

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McGoldrick, McCusker, Doyle “Keane O’Hara” – Listen

January 10, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Band veterans – Battlefield, Solas, Capercaillie – and old mates for a quarter of a century this trio of talented musicians finally released a debut album at the back end of 2017.  Fresh from the Transatlantic […]
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Matt Hectorne “Only Way into Your Heart” – Listen

January 9, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
What do you sound like like if you’re inspired by such artists as Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, and Bob Seger and were doused in gospel and country as you grew up?  And if you just happen to be Memphis-born and […]
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The Incredible Vickers Brothers “Mirrors” – Listen

January 8, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
So, which one’s your favourite ?  Rob ?  Or is it Bob ?  Hah!  They’re the same person, and unsurprisingly they both share a love of jangly Anglo-Indy-Pop.  Someone’s been listening to XTC – Rob knows […]
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Anastasia Minster “When I Die” – Listen

January 5, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Anastasia Minster went from Moscow to Toronto to be able to sit at her piano in front of window looking out over an open park and be inspired to compose her fragile and spectral songs.  On […]
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Judy Collins & Stephen Stills “Girl from the North Country” – Listen

December 20, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
A track taken from the duo’s recent album Everybody Knows –  which sees them dragging in another contemporary in the form of Bob Dylan to provide words and music.  It’s a song Stills has recorded previously, […]

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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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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

April 21, 2026 0
Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
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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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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