Beth Nielsen Chapman

Chapman and Tzuke hit the road together in October

June 2, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Beth Nielsen Chapman and Judie Tzuke have announced that they are to join forces for a 15-date autumn 2025 UK tour. Fans are promised an evening of music featuring both solo and collaborative work from the […]

Video Review of the Year 2023

December 22, 2023 Andrew Frolish 1

Is it really that time of year already? Oh, yes it is. It’s time to prepare for some festive, frolicking fun and to look forward to whatever madness 2024 will bring. First, though, we need to […]

Live Review: Beth Nielsen Chapman, Nells, London, 4th August 2023

August 22, 2023 David Jarman 0

A devoted and enthusiastic audience at London’s Nell’s was treated to a fine performance from Beth Nielson Chapman, delivered with her characteristic honesty, passion, and humour, spanning her career from its earliest days to her recent […]

Video: Beth Nielsen Chapman “Love”

July 17, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the latest single from acclaimed singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman. ‘Love’, originally written and performed by US artist Sara Groves, is an exploration of the deepest of emotions. Chapman’s version is truly heartfelt, her vocal […]

Americana UK’s Top 10 albums of 2022 – Numbers 6-3

December 20, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Yesterday we explored the first four albums in our top 10 of the year as chosen collectively by AUK writers. Tomorrow we will reveal our runner-up and number-one album of 2022, but for today, here’s numbers […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Sammy Kay “civil/WAR” (Independent, 2019)

September 27, 2019 0

Sammy Kay has picked a stonking opening track for his new album ‘civil/War’. Straight from the off the gravelly-voiced New Jersey singer-songwriter grabs your attention with the superb ‘Silver Dollar’ and quickly backs it up with […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Danny Bradley + A Different Thread, The Town Hall, Kirton In Lindsey, 30th September 2022

October 10, 2022 0

How quick the memory fades with the heatwave of the summer already feeling like a distant memory as autumn flexes its muscles treating tonight’s congregation to gale force winds and lashing rain as they arrive at […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Ten Penny Gypsy “Your True You”

December 7, 2020 0

This summer saw the release of the second full-length album, ‘Fugitive Heart’, from Arkansas group Ten Penny Gypsy. The founding members, Justin Patterson and Laura Lynn Danley, were supported by CMA-nominated guitarist Buddy Case. The record […]

Chapman and Tzuke hit the road together in October

Video Review of the Year 2023

Live Review: Beth Nielsen Chapman, Nells, London, 4th August 2023

Video: Beth Nielsen Chapman “Love”

Americana UK’s Top 10 albums of 2022 – Numbers 6-3

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”