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Live Reviews

Live Review: Amy Speace + Rachel Sage, Green Note, Camden, London – 28th November 2025

December 3, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Amy Speace opened her set at the Green Note in Camden, as she had thirteen months earlier at the Slaughtered Lamb, telling the audience she had just flown in and was a tad frazzled. Not that […]
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Album Reviews

Amy Speace “The Blue Rock Session”

December 1, 2025 John Lee 2
Amy Speace strips everything back – and proves how powerful her voice and songs are. Some albums feel deliberate – structured, strategised, road-mapped to the last harmony. “The Blue Rock Session” is the opposite, an album […]
News

Amy Speace to release her second album of the year and announces tour dates

October 16, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Amy Speace was accepted into a weeklong songwriting residency at The Blue Rock Retreat and Studio this summer and has 11 songs to show for it. Each song is delicately pieced together; some […]
Interviews

Interview: Amy Speace on her view of “The American Dream”

January 14, 2025 Martin Johnson 4
You can take the girl out of New York, but not New York out of the girl. Amy Speace is a favourite of Americana UK and has just released her fourth record in five years, “The […]
Tracks

Mince Pie Mondays – are these vegan?

December 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1
What’s going on?  Isn’t Mince Pie Mondays a bit like Solstice Songs Thursdays, a last-minute attempt to use up the late-arriving seasonal songs so no one feels like the child that Santa forgot?  A sort of […]

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

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Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

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

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Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates

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All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December

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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 […]
Album Reviews

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

August 5, 2026 0
Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits
  • Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”
  • Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers
  • Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates
  • All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December
  • Live Review: Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes + Riley Catherall, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 25th July 2026
  • Clayton Denwood “Looking for a Road”
  • Ferris & Sylvester “The Game” – going back to the beginning
  • Video: Inland Isle “White Collar Breakdown” – a dark fantasy about AI
  • Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider
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  • Alan Peatfield: OK, Graeme - just one observation ... the obvious one. "As a songwriter he is right up there; on the…
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Alan. Glad you approve. It was an excellent gig.

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Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

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Iron and Wine announces return with new album the first for seven years – it’s been too long!

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Iron & Wine’s “Light Verse”, his seventh album, comes out on Sub Pop On Friday, April 26th The ten-track collection was produced by the band’s principal singer-songwriter Sam Beam and mixed and engineered by Dave Way […]
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The Burning Hell “Ghost Palace”

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Funny, thoughtful and tuneful album about a post-people planet. Who would have thought that the end of the world could be this joyful, quirky and funny? The Burning Hell claim to have been writing party anthems […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Frank “Red Neck, Blue Collar”

April 22, 2024 0
Memphis legend Jim Dickinson called Bob Frank “The greatest songwriter you never heard”, having known him from the early ‘60s Memphis music scene. While Bob Frank styled himself as a folk musician he wrote his own […]

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