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Crys Matthews “Reclamation”

February 5, 2025 Rick Thorn 0

A harsh bright light shone into America’s darkest corners. ‘Reclamation’ has the potential to become an exceptionally powerful album coming as it has in the current political environment. Matthews identifies as a black, butch lesbian who […]

Tracks

Let’s Get Some Stones For Avalon – A Year In Tracks

December 19, 2024 Jonathan Aird 2

Stones dot the landscape, marks of older times now gone but vaguely recalled or at least felt subconsciously, a connection made through elapsed years.  And the annual Track roundup is a bit like that as well […]

Tracks

Crys Matthews “Cancel Culture” – right on, just right on

November 1, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

Now there is a danger, we are warned, from listening to things that we agree with whole heartedly.  We’ll be narrowing our viewpoints, we won’t be seeing the other side, we’ll miss the bigger picture.  You […]

Tracks

Casii Stephan “Law & Order” – featuring Crys Matthews and Jay Burgess

October 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

So, sometimes what happens is that it just seems more appropriate to let the artists’ statements do the talking, and this is certainly a case where trademark flippancy is really not appropriate.  So – Casii Stephan’s […]

News

Allison Russell is double award winner at Folk Alliance International

May 20, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

The big announcements from the award ceremony at this year’s Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas, which is where Americana UK virtually is until Sunday, were Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song […]

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Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

July 15, 2025 0

Writing songs with Tom Paxton was like going fishing with a friend. Paper flowers generally symbolise enduring love, remembrance, and creativity. Unlike fresh flowers, they don’t fade or die, memorialising a love that lasts or a […]

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Behind the Songs: Chris Stamey “Anything Is Possible”

July 10, 2025 0

North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey is an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history, starting in the mid-70s with Mitch Easter in the band Sneakers, then co-founding the avant-pop band The dBs […]

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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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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

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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

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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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