Ben Jordan

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week – AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 23rd January 2024

February 12, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

It goes without saying that the annual AmericanaFest Showcases organised by the AMAUK as part of their Conference is always a highlight of the year. With four venues (Moth Club, Paper Dress Vintage, Night Tales, Oslo) […]

Ben Jordan “El Dorado” – elusive joys

February 7, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Part of the point of AmericanaFest – and the showcases in particular – is to find some new people and bands who are producing good music, and also have new music coming out soon. Ben Jordan […]

Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

Interviews

Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Peach & Quiet “Beautiful Thing”

January 20, 2023 0

Check out the dreamy, laid-back ‘Beautiful Thing’ from Peach & Quiet, the musical project of Canada’s Jonny Miller and Welsh-born Heather Read, partners in life and in song. For ‘Beautiful Thing’, they are joined by a […]

Columns

The View From Across La Manche #12 – From our own correspondent

March 1, 2023 0

Plus ça change… Quite a contrast between last month’s featured article photo and this month’s! It seems like it was full on winter only yesterday and now spring is making a definite attempt to show up. […]

Album Reviews

Wesley Dean “Music From Crazy Hearts”

May 9, 2024 1

Pop, rock, gospel, and country blend together in uneasy Nashville stew. Wesley Dean is the artist formerly known as Wes Carr who won Australian Idol back in 2008. He released several albums under that name and […]

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week – AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 23rd January 2024

Ben Jordan “El Dorado” – elusive joys

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