Allison Russell – Page 6

Various Artists “Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver”

November 15, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

A salute to a songwriter of “eloquent simplicity”. According to Ray Wylie Hubbard, “Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Billy Joe Shaver were the Holy Trinity of Texas songwriters”. “My favourite songwriter” is how Johnny Cash […]

Allison Russell “You’re Not Alone” – featuring Brandi Carlile

August 23, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

You know it’s a real pleasure to say that today’s song needs no introduction – since we all know and appreciate the talent of Allison Russell. A pleasure because after years of banging on about Birds […]

Allison Russell is double award winner at Folk Alliance International

May 20, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

The big announcements from the award ceremony at this year’s Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas, which is where Americana UK virtually is until Sunday, were Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Birds Of Chicago “Love In Wartime”

January 24, 2022 Alan Fitter 1

In the last article in the Chain Gang series, Andrew Frolish mused on Sufjan Stevens’ ‘John Wayne Gorcy Jr’ from Stevens’ 2005 album ‘Illinois’ and that got me thinking, not about other songs about serial killers […]

AMA-UK Awards cancelled – award ceremony to be streamed online

January 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) has, with great regret, announced that UK Americana Music Week, due to take place in Hackney, London over January 24-27th, has been cancelled. This is due to the current COVID-19 […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 1

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

September 21, 2026 0

“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an old […]