Amy Speace

Amy Speace to release debut poetry collection and new single

July 29, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

Award-winning singer-songwriter and poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals on Tuesday 1st September 2026. It will be published by Red Hen Press. Speace will also be releasing an accompanying […]

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

July 2, 2026 David Jarman 0

Amy Speace is a long-standing favourite of Americana UK, her most recent album, The Blue Rock Session, appearing late in 2025, a stripped-back collection on acoustic guitar and piano, recorded at a writing retreat in Wimberley, […]

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Graeme Tait

January 15, 2026 Graeme Tait 8

This new feature has now been running for approximately four months. During that time, I have simultaneously sympathised with my fellow writers at the magnitude of the challenge they have faced and marvelled at the array […]

Video Review of the Year 2025

December 17, 2025 Andrew Frolish 2

Well, another year has flown by and will soon be consigned to history’s waste bin. It was a year of monstrous tariffs and volatile markets, of small boats and protests outside hotels, of ongoing, heartbreaking conflicts […]

Video: Amy Speace “Weight of the World”

December 12, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Amy Speace has it all. She is an outstanding vocalist, balancing raw emotion, storytelling tones and great control. She is an accomplished songwriter who displays fine musicianship and finds glorious melodies, arranged with care and sensitivity. […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers