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Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 3rd-5th July 2026

July 31, 2026 Andrew Frolish 1
There are some festivals you attend because of the line-up. Others because they’re close to home. Some because they’re fashionable, or because everyone else seems to be going. Then there’s Maverick. After many years of returning […]

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Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

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There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

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Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

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Jason McNiff “Ten Blue Songs”

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Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 3rd-5th July 2026

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Features

Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

July 31, 2026 0
The next Americana Story comes from one of our own. Rick Bayles escaped the UK to live in the Dordogne region of France, and from there he reports back through his monthly Vox Continental column, sharing […]
Previews

There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

July 31, 2026 0
Correspondent and promoter Oliver Gray recommends an attractive festival that will entertain rather than overwhelm. It’s called Found, and it takes place this August Bank Holiday and is attracting some very classy acts indeed. “The band […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

July 31, 2026 0
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around is a Tom Petty and Mike Campbell composition originally earmarked for the Heartbreakers’ Hard Promises album. The fact that a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers track ended up featuring on the Stevie Nicks debut solo […]

  • Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”
  • There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday
  • Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981
  • Jason McNiff “Ten Blue Songs”
  • Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 3rd-5th July 2026
  • Vox Continental: July 2026
  • The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Haylie Davis and Leeroy Stagger
  • Twilark “Tired To Sleep” – to sleep , perchance to forget
  • Video: Gareth Dunlop “Freewheeling” (Live at Salvation Music Studios)
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  • David Chalfen: You must have spent as long writing this massive review as you did at the festival! Super piece and captures…
  • Andrew Raw: Thanks, Martin.
  • Martin Johnson: Lovely list, Andrew. A genre that is very close to my heart.

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Interviews

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 […]
Interviews

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 […]
Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Videos

Video: The Delines “Surfers in Twilight”

April 4, 2022 0
There are few writers who can distil people’s lives and stories into just a few lines as effectively as Willie Vlautin.  It’s a rare lyrical gift: with perfectly chosen language and carefully selected fine environmental details, […]
Album Reviews

Fay Hield “Wrackline” (Topic Records, 2020)

September 18, 2020 0
On her new release Fay Hield digs deep into folksong’s mystical world – the songs of spirits, usually malicious and malevolent, dark deeds and supernatural consequences. It’s a theme that is captured to perfection from the […]
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Blue Rose Code “Love Is…” – Listen

September 4, 2017 0
Blue Rose Code is aka singer-songwriter Ross Wilson and they’ve/he’s unveiled the first cut from their/his (we could go on like this…) forthcoming new album “The Water Of Leith” which is due out 27th October on Navigator Records. […]

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