Glasgow Americana Festival

Live Review: Glasgow Americana Festival, Various venues, Glasgow, 2nd-6th October 2024

October 15, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

One last fling as ever before the clocks fall back, heralding the coming of winter, Glasgow Americana Festival remains a beacon of light before the nights draw in. Now in its 18th year, the festival took […]

Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival 2024

September 25, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

Always a sign that the nights are drawing in, Glasgow’s own Americana Festival returns for its 18th year next week. Helmed by promoter Kevin Morris of The Fallen Angels Club, Glasgow Americana takes place in several […]

Live Review: Bennett & Wilson + Dropkick, Glasgow Americana Festival @Room 2, Glasgow – 6th October 2023

October 12, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Nestled midway within this year’s Glasgow Americana Festival’s line up was a rather surprising billing, Bennett & Wilson, two thirds of the trailblazing Bennett Wilson & Poole whose incendiary gig at the festival back in 2019 […]

My Darling Clementine + Arksong, Glasgow Americana Festival, CCA Glasgow, 3rd October 2021

October 7, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

It’s an unexpected but welcome effect of the pandemic, the sheer delight and adrenaline rush of seeing and hearing live music again after such a long period of gig starvation. As an audience member, I’ve certainly […]

Nathan Bell + Kirsteen Harvey, Glasgow Americana Festival, The Admiral bar, Glasgow, 30th September 2021

October 5, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

With the pandemic still heavy in the air and US acts stuck on a tightrope as to whether to tour or not to tour abroad, it was heart-warming to learn that Nathan Bell had been jabbed […]

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

August 5, 2026 2

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