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Nashville ‘super’group Echolalia announce their eponymous debut album

November 26, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Currency of another coin. There’s a new Nashville group on the scene and it could possibly be called a supergroup as it features friends Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billet. And they have […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire – Saturday 24th August 2024

September 10, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The second day of The Long Road 2024 arrived with clouds and rain.  Not, apart from 15 minutes in the afternoon, torrential, but a general swing between light and heavy drizzle.  The latter tended to be […]

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Album Reviews

Andrew Combs “Dream Pictures”

August 29, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Andrew Combs’ sixth album celebrates new-found contentment. “Dream Pictures” is Andrew Combs’ sixth album and his second for Loose following on from “Sundays” (2022). While its predecessor’s mood was dark following a pandemic era breakdown, “Dream […]

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Andrew Combs returns with a new album, single and tour dates! Is it Christmas?

June 20, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Loose alumni Andrew Combs returns to the fray this month with the announcement of a brand new album “Dream Pictures” that will be released on August 23rd as well as its lead single ‘Eventide’ which is […]

News

The Long Road Festival announces first acts for 2024

March 6, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Following 2023’s sell-out, The Long Road festival returns to the picturesque grounds of Stanford Hall in Leicestershire over the August bank holiday weekend this year from 23rd to 25th August.  The festival has a track record […]

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Americana UK’s album of 2025 is The Delines “Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom”

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 215 “Christmas Vinyl”

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  • Americana UK’s album of 2025 is The Delines “Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom”
  • Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2
  • For the sake of the song: Corinne West “Trouble No More”
  • Boy & Bear “Tripping Over Time”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 215 “Christmas Vinyl”
  • A year down the Tracks
  • Video: Elles Bailey “Better Days”
  • Something for the weekend: Aimee Mann “I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up for Christmas”
  • Americana UK’s top 20 albums of 2025: 20-11
  • Jingle Bells Friday – next week, what do you mean next week?
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  • Jonathan Smith: Thanks Nigel, much appreciated. So pleased there’s still so many Northern Exposure stalwarts out there
  • Jonathan Smith: Cheers Andy! It was just the perfect coming together of music and story, wasn’t it? I read an article recently…
  • Andy Short: Great set of songs, Jonathan, many of them were just outside my top ten, including your brilliant choice of number…

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Interviews

Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

Interviews

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

Interviews

Interview: Brian Dunne asks is it so bad to want a good life?

December 9, 2025 0

While patiently waiting for Brian Dunne to get his due from those who listen to and hopefully buy physical media, it is worthwhile to linger in the brilliance of his fourth album, “Clams Casino” (Missing Piece, […]

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Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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