Blue Rose Code

Live Review: Blue Rose Code, Southside, Lincoln – 13th December 2024

December 20, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

The site of tonight’s venue has a mixed and chequered history with this Grade II listed building originally starting life in 1887 as the Methodist Church known as St Katherine’s Church, dubbed Lincoln’s second cathedral. This […]

Rhiannon Giddens to headline at Gate to Southwell this summer

June 17, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

It has been confirmed that the Gate To Southwell Festival (GTSF) 2024 will be the only chance to catch Rhiannon Giddens performing in the UK this summer. The multi-Grammy award-winning folk, foots and americana star will […]

Blue Rose Code “Bright Circumstance”

May 9, 2024 Tom Harding 1

Unlocking the code to joy. Blue Rose Code (Ross Wilson) returns with his first album in four years, a period marked not only by new fatherhood but also by extensive touring with his dynamic seven-piece band. […]

Blue Rose Code “Sadie” – a life lost, no recovery

April 12, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

‘Sadie’ is the third single from the new album ” from Blue Rose Code. Singer and songwriter Ross Wilson shared about the song that it is “written from a very personal perspective, a song about generational […]

Blue Rose Code “Jericho”

February 15, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

The new song from Blue Rose Code opens with the line “It’s been a long time coming“, and they’re right – it’s been some while since we’ve heard from Blue Rose Code here at Americana UK […]

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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 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0

An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

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 […]

Live Reviews

Frazey Ford @Celtic Connections, Saint Luke’s, Glasgow, 23rd January 2020

January 28, 2020 0

Touring before a new album is released can be risky. There’s a desire from the artist to showcase their new material but these are songs that the audience doesn’t yet know. The sense of audience expectation […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Lee Rogers “Life and Lies”

March 18, 2022 0

We are delighted to premiere this stripped-back acoustic version of ‘Life and Lies’ from Carrickfergus-based Lee Rogers. Over delicate but insistent guitar-work, Rogers delivers an outstanding vocal performance. Full of engaging melody and character, with controlled […]

Videos

Video: Runnner “Monochrome”

July 26, 2021 0

Here is ‘Monochrome’, the final single to be released from Runnner’s brand new album, ‘Always Repeating’. Runnner is the name under which LA-based multi-instrumentalist Noah Weinman creates his absorbing, introspective songs. On this, Weinman plays guitar, […]

Live Review: Blue Rose Code, Southside, Lincoln – 13th December 2024

Rhiannon Giddens to headline at Gate to Southwell this summer

Blue Rose Code “Bright Circumstance”

Blue Rose Code “Sadie” – a life lost, no recovery

Blue Rose Code “Jericho”

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

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”