Amy Speace

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

artwork for Amy Speace album "The American Dream"

Amy Speace “The American Dream”

October 29, 2024 Chas Lacey 1

Songs of innocence and experience form a poetic musical memoir. Amy Speace will be familiar to many as the winner of the UK Americana Music Association’s 2020 International Song of the Year Award for ‘Me and […]

Amy Speace “Where Did You Go” – I thought I knew you

September 25, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to decipher the topic of this latest single from Amy Speace’s new album ‘The American Dream‘ which is released on 18th October. Amy gives a concise background to the […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Political Pops

Pick of the Political Pops: The Spencer Davies Group “Every Little Bit Hurts”

November 24, 2017 0

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Videos

Video: Bruce Springsteen “Open All Night (Live at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ)”

October 2, 2025 0

This is a wonderful time to be a Bruce Springsteen fan. Previously unheard material and enhanced re-releases abound, giving a remarkable insight into his writing and recording process, as well as a glimpse into an alternate […]

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Video: Karima Francis “Orange Rose”

June 17, 2020 0

‘Orange Rose’ is the dreamy, atmospheric new release from Karima Francis. Blackpool’s Francis relocated to the American west coast last year and this song about the complications of love was written in and inspired by California. […]

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

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

Mince Pie Mondays – are these vegan?

Amy Speace “The American Dream”

Amy Speace “Where Did You Go” – I thought I knew you

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”