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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Ryan Adams

January 7, 2026 Peter Thompson 6

Ryan Adams is one of the most talented and indeed prolific singer/songwriters of his generation, with a rich canon of work to support this assertion. Despite his undoubted talent Adams has had some well publicised issues […]

Interview: Nicholas Johnson on why he keeps going back to Shady Pines

June 6, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Kentucky country and Rust Belt rock with a dash of La Dolce Vita. He may have been born and brought up in Kentucky and is currently a resident of Cincinnati, but singer-songwriter Nicholas Johnson has a […]

Interview: Jarrod Dickenson on why he had to talk big

April 4, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Born in Texas but with a love of the UK. Jarrod Dickenson may originally be from Texas but he has built a dedicated fanbase in the UK, and he has just completed a short tour promoting […]

Brand new Americana Fest in Bath announced for this July

May 9, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

The line-up for a new comedy and music festival in the American Museum and Gardens in Bath has been released. Called simply “Americana Fest”, the weekender will include a star-studded selection of American ex-pat comedians, and […]

Festival Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk, 3rd – 5th September 2021

September 22, 2021 Andrew Frolish 1

During his performance on the Barn Stage at the Maverick Festival, Dean Owens summed up how everyone was feeling, artists and audience alike: “Nice to see some real people. It’s like starting the football season without […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

Arielle Silver “Ghost Ships” – spectres of old relationships

August 31, 2023 0

‘Ghost Ships‘ is an airy folk song from Arielle Silver’s new album ‘Watershed‘, it floats – naturally enough – on the waters of recollection and consolation as Arielle Silver reflects on things that happened and the […]

Americana Roots

Americana Roots: Backyard Tire Fire

August 27, 2021 0

Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts who […]

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Ruth Hazleton “Letter From A Friend (Fire Song)” – all things have passed

July 1, 2025 0

‘Letter From A Friend (Fire Song)‘ is the lead track from Ruth Hazleton’s upcoming album “Heronbones“, which will be released in September 2025. “Heronbones” draws on Hazleton’s love of traditional song and folkloric themes, using sampling, […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Ryan Adams

Interview: Nicholas Johnson on why he keeps going back to Shady Pines

Interview: Jarrod Dickenson on why he had to talk big

Brand new Americana Fest in Bath announced for this July

Festival Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk, 3rd – 5th September 2021

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”