Celtic Music Radio

Americana On Air – Podcasts and Internet Radio updated for 2024!

August 5, 2024 Tim Martin 2

Back in 2020 we shared the top 10 Americana internet radio shows and podcasts. Since then, podcasting has exploded into a phenomenon that is eating away at the listenership for traditional linear radio. But with internet […]

Interview: Americana UK Reader’s Poll multiple award winner Mike Ritchie on successful music radio

April 1, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Mike Ritchie explains how to be an award winning music broadcaster despite repeatedly getting an artist’s new album title wrong. Mike Ritchie is one of Americana UK’s more successful Reader’s Poll award winners with his Celtic […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
By Peter Thompson , 2 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
@andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...
By Peter Thompson , 3 days ago
RE: My First Record Player
I had a Rotel amp and turntable too until the buttons s...
By Andy Short , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
@peterthompson When Ryan Adams string breaks during Bar...
By Andy Short , 4 days ago
World Party - Private Revolution
Oh Karl - you left us much too soon. word on the street...
By deviouspdv , 6 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Little Feat - Time Loves a Hero (vinyl) XTC - English...
By Peter Thompson , 7 days ago
David Allan Coe (9/6/1939 - 4/29/2026)
David Allan Coe was certainly a controversial figure, b...
By Joe Nathan , 1 week ago
RE: Versions!
You know those songs that you know and that song become...
By Paul Villers , 1 week ago
RE: My First Record Player
I don't remember the brand of my first record player sa...
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Adam Donen “Bible Stories”

May 7, 2026 0

Tom Waits inspires industrial Gothic gospel blues. Now this is a strange one. Adam Donen is a multi-faceted artist; apparently, he “invents art forms, writes, directs and composes” Hmmmm. To be fair, to back this up, […]

Folk Roundup – Anna McLuckie, Arthur Coates & Kerran Cotterell, Emily Portman, Gareth Davies-Jones, Lady Maisery and Jimmy Alkdridge & Sid Goldsmith, Old Spot, Songs of the Folk

May 7, 2026 0

With springtime now upon us, it is time to delve into some of the recent folk and roots music embracing these warmer, albeit not always drier, times. A plethora of new releases landed in the inbox […]

Deer Tick “ACI” – a place for porridge

May 7, 2026 1

And what, you may ask, is an ACI? Adult Correctional Institutions – or, if you prefer, a prison. On this latest release from Deer Tick’s new album Coin-O-Matic we find the band in Springsteen’s Nebraska or […]

Interview: Americana UK Reader’s Poll multiple award winner Mike Ritchie on successful music radio

Adam Donen “Bible Stories”

Folk Roundup – Anna McLuckie, Arthur Coates & Kerran Cotterell, Emily Portman, Gareth Davies-Jones, Lady Maisery and Jimmy Alkdridge & Sid Goldsmith, Old Spot, Songs of the Folk

Deer Tick “ACI” – a place for porridge

Video Premiere: Michael McDermott “The Best We Get” – only focus on what is in your control

Florence Dore “Hold the Spark”