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Previews

Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 30th June – 2nd July 2023

May 16, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

If you love country and Americana, then at Maverick you’ll feel like your music has come home.  These days we are blessed with a number of great festivals but there is something particularly special about the […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Chris Murphy “Early Grave”

November 23, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Now, this is how to play the violin.  Brilliantly-talented multi-instrumentalist Chris Murphy works his fiddle with freedom and fluency against the backing of a stomping beat that makes the listener want to dance and sway.  Despite the […]

Album Reviews

Chris Murphy “Sovereign”

July 14, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

LA and Dutch based eclectic folk and americana with a myriad of guests. Chris Murphy was born near New York City to an Irish-Italian family, and it was the music he was exposed to in his […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Chris Murphy “Till the World Lifts its Head Again”

June 10, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

There’s a wonderful, foot-tapping, driving rhythm in this new single from multi-instrumentalist Chris Murphy.  It’s a joy to see all the performers in action, particularly Murphy himself: his violin-work is simply stunning.  This single is taken […]

Album Reviews

Chris Murphy “Hard Bargain : Live/Solo” (Teahouse Records, 2017)

August 9, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

Americana UK featured Chris Murphy’s video of the title song from this album a while back and if you liked the video then you’ll love this album. Raised in Hudson Valley, New York, a place with […]

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  • Constellation Myths “The Cost Of Living”
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Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

July 2, 2025 0

It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

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Interview: Swarme of Beese finds more poetry in darkness than in light

June 30, 2025 0

The term mutant folk seems to fit. In the band’s early days, before The Victor Mourning emerged from the pupa into an adult Swarme of Beese, their songs elicited unusual receptions. Co-songwriter Lynne Adele recalls performing […]

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Interview: Sean McConnell on taking a journey underneath the skin

June 26, 2025 0

Looking at the cover artwork for Sean McConnell’s latest album “Skin” (Silent Desert Music, 2025), you might think he has a fixation on tattoos, what with the drawing of a hand covered in ink art from […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 34

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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