Ethan Johns

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 […]

Maverick Festival 2021 announces line-up

March 12, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s a brave person who puts on a festival this year, but blessed are the ones for whom the festival falls at the end of the season, and with that in mind, the organisers of Maverick […]

Interview: Americana UK favourite Robert Vincent reflects on his recent multiple awards

March 3, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Americana UK favourite Robert Vincent on a UK view of americana and his appreciation of his UK fans. Robert Vincent is a great favourite of Americana UK, and if anyone had any doubts about this statement […]

Sounds from the Shed – Week 8

March 2, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 2

Announcement made, Johnson retreats and leaves the workers to pick up the pieces. As Monday nights go it was a cut above, as we discovered the way our Govt. had decided that school life actually in […]

Interview: Sam Brookes on Bristol Statues, John Martyn and working with Ethan Johns

October 23, 2020 Martin Johnson 2

Sam Brookes is an independent artist who has been compared to a number of artists including Bon Iver and Jeff Buckley. He has been following this path since he was 16 and his career got a […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 1

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers