Ida Mae

Live Review: Elles Bailey + Demi Marriner + Ida Mae, The Fire Station, Sunderland – 14th November 2024

November 25, 2024 Viv Fish 0

Having recently enjoyed reviewing Elles Bailey’s fourth studio album, “Beneath the Neon Glow“, I was thrilled to spot her playing just a thirty-minute drive away. However, while looking forward to seeing Bailey, I hadn’t realised just […]

Interview: Ida Mae’s Chris Turpin on “Thunder Above You”

January 23, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

English folk and American roots music with improvisation and tour support from a nanny. Ida Mae are husband and wife Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean Ward who play an indie folk americana mix that they’ve worked […]

Artwork for Ida Mae album "Thunder Above You"

Ida Mae “Thunder Above You”

October 17, 2023 Peter Thompson 0

Bold, powerful and captivating, the third album from English duo Ida Mae is a mature, satisfying offering. Play it loud. Ida Mae is husband and wife duo Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean Ward. The couple moved […]

Artwork for Nanci Griffith tribute 'More Than A Whisper' on Rounder Records

Various Artists “More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith”

September 18, 2023 Richard Parkinson 1

A mighty and entirely merited salute to a giant of americana. Nanci Griffith would have turned 70 in July 2023 had she not died in August 2021 after a long illness. To celebrate her life and […]

Ida Mae “My Whispers Are Wildfire”

June 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Ida Mae have a new studio album, their third, called ‘Thunder Above You‘ which is set for release on August 25th. ‘My Whispers Are Wildfire’ is the latest single taken form it and is in their characteristic […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Chris Knight - Chris Knight
By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Old 97s - Too Far to Care
By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Wilco - summerteeth
By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago
Calling fiction writers - we want to publish your stories
Americana UK is putting out a call for original short f...
By Tim Martin , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
By Joe Nathan , 5 days ago

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 […]

Features

VERSIONS: “Across The Borderline”

November 16, 2023 3

‘Music by Ry Cooder’ was often an indicator that a film might be worth further investigation in the late 1970s through the 1980s in particular. One such was ‘The Border’, directed by Tony Richardson and starring […]

Tracks

Something for the weekend: David Crosby (feat. Sarah Jarosz) “For Free”

June 25, 2021 1

That’s it from us for another week dear reader, and we leave you before the weekend with the title track taken from the upcoming album from David Crosby ‘For Free’, which comes out July 23rd via […]

Videos

Video: Simone Felice “Puppet” (featuring Four-Tet)

October 28, 2021 0

Acclaimed singer-songwriter, author and producer, Simone Felice, releases a video for ‘Puppet‘, a single taken from his highly anticipated new album, ‘All The Bright Coins‘. AUK readers will be aware of the Felice Brothers and their profound […]

Live Review: Elles Bailey + Demi Marriner + Ida Mae, The Fire Station, Sunderland – 14th November 2024

Interview: Ida Mae’s Chris Turpin on “Thunder Above You”

Ida Mae “Thunder Above You”

Various Artists “More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith”

Ida Mae “My Whispers Are Wildfire”

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”