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artwork for Great Grandpa album "Patience, Moonbeam"
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Great Grandpa “Patience, Moonbeam”

March 26, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0
After a prolonged absence, the five-piece band from Seattle returns with renewed energies and a darker, sincere new album. As the story goes, following the success of ‘Four of Arrows’ in 2019, there was an attempt […]

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Live Review: Bright Phoebus Revisited, EartH, London – 8th September 2026

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Artwork for Clever Hopes album "Even Gooder Than Tomorrow"

Clever Hopes “Even Gooder Than Tomorrow”

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Bryan Adams wonders “How’s It Goin'” on new roots rock album about Canada

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New(ish) Dean Owens album out next month with intimate tour dates to support

September 16, 2026 0
Award-winning Scottish troubadour Dean Owens is nothing if not prolific! Since 2022, he has released 4 new studio albums (including recordings with iconic Latin rockers Calexico, and collaborations with celebrated Italian producer Don Antonio and Grammy […]
Album Reviews

Mama’s Broke “Reunion”

September 16, 2026 0
Beautifully intimate offering from hugely talented Canadian duo rewards the attentive listener. Mama’s Broke, Canadian duo Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria, have spent many a year on the road. Their 2017 debut album Count The […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Bright Phoebus Revisited, EartH, London – 8th September 2026

September 16, 2026 0
Bright Phoebus is one of the three great “lost” albums of its era – as special in its way as No Other or Forever Changes because, like these albums, it redefined what was possible within a […]

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  • Mama’s Broke “Reunion”
  • Live Review: Bright Phoebus Revisited, EartH, London – 8th September 2026
  • Clever Hopes “Even Gooder Than Tomorrow”
  • Bryan Adams wonders “How’s It Goin'” on new roots rock album about Canada
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – these are dark matters…

October 28, 2025 0
Ah, brave reader, so you’ve returned to our little haunted nook?  Good.  Good.  Come in, come in, sit anywhere…No!  No, not there, that is not quite as it seems…hmm?  Oh, just humour us, we can’t really […]
Album Reviews

Mike Stocksdale “If You Ask Me I’ll Tell You” (Saint in the City Records, 2020)

November 6, 2020 0
Mike Stocksdale has released his new solo album ‘If You Ask Me I’ll Tell You‘ which he self produced in his home studio and is a set of songs that he has been creating over the […]
Album Reviews

Thomas Charlie Pederson “Second Hand War” (Karmanian Records, 2016)

October 12, 2016 0
It’s a family affair as Thomas Pederson is joined and produced by Daniel Pederson. This is a sparse album recorded by someone who has obviously listened to his Dylan and many other confessional singers and there […]

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