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Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th–6th July 2025

April 29, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
A highlight in the Americana musical calendar is always the annual Maverick Festival in Suffolk.  The first Americana festival in the UK, Maverick has been attracting audiences to the barns of Easton Farm Park since 2008.  […]
Videos

Video Review of the Year 2024

December 12, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Here we are again, hurtling towards another Christmas and another year.  Time flies when we’re having fun, so 2024 must have been a good one.  An election in the UK gave me some hope.  An election […]
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Video: Chris Murphy “Separate Ways” Feat. Johnny Irion

November 6, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
The latest single from New York multi-instrumentalist Chris Murphy is full of drama.  ‘Separate Ways’ is a raw break-up song that captures and then releases all the complicated emotion we feel as a relationship unravels.  Featuring […]
Tracks

Folk Tracks Roundup, August 2024

August 30, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, what a busy August it has been.  Gigs. Holidays. That sort of thing.  But never fear, we’d never let you down without a set of Folk Tracks for the month.  And it shortens the waiting […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 5th-7th July 2024

August 8, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
As promised, here’s part two of our Maverick Festival experience. Prior to coming over for the Maverick Festival, Jerry Joseph had played three shows in 24 hours at the High Sierra Festival in California, before driving […]

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Susto Stringband “Hands In The Dirt” – good advice for the taking

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Wow, these singles seem to come along quickly, seems like only a week or two since the last one from Susto Stringband, led by Susto frontman Justin Osborne.  And that’s because it is, and usually we’d […]
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Video Premiere: The Fugitives “Holy Strength” – the awesomeness of humility

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The latest single from Canadian band The Fugitives showcases all the members’ individual musical talents, as well as their collective gift for arranging and crafting great songs. Generously full of sonic textures, Holy Strength benefits from […]
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The Top Ten Americana Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)

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Almost there! There was never much doubt that John Prine would be represented in this list, and, although a number of his songs appeared in the original writers’ lists, the iconic and most covered song of […]

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Interviews

Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
Interviews

Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

April 7, 2026 0
In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
Interviews

Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

April 2, 2026 0
How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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Album Reviews

The Nautical Theme “Float” (Independent, 2018)

May 2, 2018 0
With a band named ‘The Nautical Theme’ comprising a duo of piano and vocals (Tesia Mallory) and guitar and vocals (Matt Shetler) this might make the casual browser think they were about to stroll into folk […]
Obituaries

The Song Remains: Byron Berline 1944 – 2021

July 13, 2021 6
Country rock and bluegrass fiddle legend who co-founded Country Gazette. Renowned fiddle player, and sometime mandolin picker,  Byron Berline died on 10th July from complications following a recent stroke. As a musician, he was able to […]
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Americana UK launches our gig guide (at last!)

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Well it’s been a while coming, apologies for that, but we laboured with a fairly, er, laborious system for some weeks before realising it was crap and we’d have to start again. Huge thanks to John Vaites for […]

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