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Live Review: Catherine MacLellan and Lucy Farrell, Backroads House Concert, Hertford – 20th May 2025

June 2, 2025 FredArnold 1
Well, what pleasant surprises – to find that there are Americana fans in Hertford was one, and that one such fan had created a House Concert venue just a couple of miles away. And then there […]
News

Maverick Festival returns for 2024

March 28, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The UK’s Maverick Festival has announced that the 2024 event will take place in the barns and fields of Easton Farm Park, Suffolk from Friday 5th July to Sunday 7th July. The festival which is in […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week. AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 24th & 25th January 2023

February 8, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
The annual AmericanaFest Showcases organised by the AMA-UK as part of their festival is a highlight of the year. With six venues (Moth Club, Paper Dress Vintage, Night Tales, Oslo, Hackney Social and Hackney Church Brew […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Catherine MacLellan “Sparrows” – Austin, Texas, March 18th 2010

September 30, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 3
Given Classic Clips has recently featured very-big-to-biggish-name artists like The Rolling Stones, Crosby and Nash and Mumford & Sons, it might be a surprise that next up is a performance of what was at the time […]
Tracks

Jingle Bells Friday – Spiced Rum! How can we have Christmas without spiced rum?

December 3, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Time is marching on, and it is indeed starting to look a lot like Christmas as the decorative street lights come on and that bottle of mulled wine edges its way to the front of the […]

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Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]
Album Reviews

Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”

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Journeyman comes full circle with an album of resonant covers that have been uniquely adapted throughout his career, tracing all the way back to his teenage days busking in Nashville. Benjamin Tod has been around the […]
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Live Reviews

Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026

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Opening for The War and Treaty at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Buddy Miller explained how he came to crash the party and thanked the headliners and support Avery Sunshine for indulging him. Miller had a call from […]

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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Tracks

Tom Jenkins “Is There A Next One?” – could be about sheep

December 14, 2023 0
This song comes from what is described as the new “surprise release” from Tom Jenkins, an EP called ‘Meadow Part 1‘ which finds the songwriter in a more stripped back mode than had been demonstrated on […]
Album Reviews

Old Lost John “Seers and Weathermen” (Independent, 2019)

May 2, 2019 0
Old Lost John’s albums have regularly gained favour on this site. His latest offering is not about to change that, in fact, it is arguably his best yet. If the name is new to you, then […]
Videos

Video: Noble Jacks “This Is Real”

December 12, 2019 0
This is from a band most definitely on the rise, Brighton outfit Noble Jacks.  Taken from their album ‘Stay Awake‘, it’s a song about being brave enough to talk to your heroes when you meet them […]

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