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Jim White & Trey Blake “The Long Road Home” – throw off those mental chains

January 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
What a song we have for you today – taken from Jim White & Trey Blake’s new album ‘Precious Bane‘ (out on the last day of January).  It’s a gothic polemic, of sorts, a declaration of […]
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Jessie James “Rise And Shine” – let’s kick this year off with positivity

January 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
What kind of year are we going to have on Americana UK?  Well, there’s worse things to envisage than a year of folk/punk energy focused through the kick-arseist of all instruments the ukulele.  Jessie James, from […]
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Michael Weston King “Sally Sparkles” / Lou Dalgleish “The Empty Swing”

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The americana community in the UK is fairly close-knit so many of you will know already that one of the little girls who died in Southport over the summer was Bebe King, the granddaughter of Michael […]
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Mince Pie Mondays – just two sleeps, just two sleeps…

December 23, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
And, dear festive hat wearing reader, this is truly the last batch of the Yule songs for this… umm… Yule.  As solstice becomes just a hazy memory, and the stockings are being dusted off for their […]
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Jingle Bells Friday – what happened to all the wrapping paper?

December 20, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Into the last weekend before the big day with the big feast and the gleeful exchange of Americana themed albums – what’ll it be this year?  And tomorrow is solstice, which is nice, although perhaps a […]

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AUK favourite, album of the year winner and all round nice guy Peter Bruntnell has released a new video ahead of his upcoming UK tour dates. The Byrds-y sounding ‘No Place Like Home‘ is the third […]

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